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To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point. "Yes?" This was at Bernard Mannings Embassy Club in Manchester. He is married to Evie. Worst act? i just wanna be yours t-shirt. "That," I suggest, "can't have been easy". It runs every teatime on television in the States. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" "His saving grace," Costello added, "was that he was really fucking funny.". He'll intersperse such knockabout material with classic writing like 'Beasley Street', a stunning evocation of the trials of the underclass, which sounds like Engels' prose accounts of the Mancunian slums crossed with Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row'. "Fancy Tony saying that." "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." People mention murder, the moment you arriveId consider killing you if I thought you were aliveYouve got this slippery qualityIt makes me think of phlegmAnd a dual personalityI hate both of them, Your bad breath, vamps disease, destruction, and decayPlease, please, please, please, take yourself awayLike a death a birthday partyYou ruin all the funLike a sucked and spat our smartieyoure no use to anyoneLike the shadow of the guillotineOn a dead consumptives faceSpeaking as an outsiderWhat do you think of the human race, You went to a progressive psychiatristHe recommended suicideBefore scratching your bad name off his listAnd pointing the way outside, You hear laughter breaking through, it makes you want to fartYoure heading for a breakdownBetter pull yourself apart, Your dirty name gets passed about when something goes amissYour attitudes are platitudesJust make me wanna piss, What kind of creature bore youWas is some kind of batThey cant find a good word for youBut I can, You Never See a Nipple in the Daily Express. 20.00 gbp. I believe its the kind of thing Charles Baudelaire aspired to: you know, the guy with the overview, a mirror reflecting the entire Parisian crowd. He arrived in traditional garb: pointed boots, strides clinging to stick-insect legs, dark jacket, buttoned-up white shirt, generous shades, Ronnie Wood hair beneath a tall grey felt hat. There are many subjects he does not enjoy broaching on the record, and heroin is chief among them. Was Jon the Postman the real voice of Manchester?Id obviously argue not, Jason. The poem, he says, has had to be retitled "Bi-Polar Inmate Diary". What a fabulous band.". Im not a handsome man and its damage limitation. [21] In October 2020 Clarke published an autobiography which took its title from his poem I Wanna Be Yours. He knew my brother, who still works for the GPO, the Royal Mail, so we have a bit of baggage, you might say. To take one of my more popular poems, Beasley Street: I worked my way back on that one. "I do it myself," he says. As the great Bill Withers once said, the writing of songs involves a kind of magic I dont mess with. Shakespeare wrote for actors. "You can't pretend that it never happened." Keep it quiet, but I plan to make a movie in Jaywick some day. And I thought: Wow, imagine being young and living in a mod town like Stevenage! And then I did for a couple of years. Didn't his dick almost drop off once? Prison had become like a never-ending party. Neither is it exotic or romantic. However, their grandfather may be Thomas COOPER of Fluton with Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. Which of your poems are you most satisfied with?Well, that is a typically clever question from Christopher, who did a memorable performance of Evidently Chickentown in that Danny Boyle film Strumpet, written by Jim Cartwright. Jaywick is next to Clacton on the Essex coast. John has a brilliant and retentive mind and an exhaustive knowledge of all kinds of culture. Many people have told me that they do use the writing of poetry to concentrate their mind on some pressing metaphysical problem. If you haven't previously encountered his work, you might start with 'I Married A Monster From Outer Space', a poem inspired by the 1958 film of that name. (By some bizarre coincidence, I find out later on that, at the same time as we begin this conversation, Channel 4's Countdown had as its guest the comedian Jon Culshaw, who gave an impression of the poet reading one of his finest pieces, 'I Wanna Be Yours', which is covered by the Arctic Monkeys on their 2013 UK number one album, AM). No. I dont possess the equipment. [citation needed]. And they have followed me all my days, because as you get older you keep finding some new dimension even in the simplest love song. An edited version of Wilson's observation, reproduced as graffiti on the wall of an underpass, served as the opening scene for Evidently John Cooper Clarke, director John Ross' remarkable 2012 documentary for BBC4. Everest. Fire away at me at random, Tim, he said. ", I spent three months, off and on, on the road with Cooper Clarke for this article, and this monologue has found its way into his act. Where do you get your trousers from?The short answer, Jarv, is River Island or Marks & Spencer, the skinniest they do. "Keats, Baudelaire, Poe," I suggest to Cooper Clarke. Everyone seems to have one. For the latter event, touts have been demanding more than 200 a ticket. "The rainbow I imagine is oil in a puddle" "Right." Explorers," he adds, "actively annoy me. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. I had that AIDS once," he adds, as an afterthought. reviewed by James Webster What it is? Arriving late, he is unsure as to whether he has found the right venue. Clarke, who claims [bogusly] on stage at Shepherd's Bush that he is half-Jewish, delivers old school gags such as: "Hooker opens up in a new area. Lydia, Girl with an Itch by John Cooper Clarke - YouTube 0:00 / 4:51 Lydia, Girl with an Itch by John Cooper Clarke 20,175 views Mar 6, 2014 Live at the Cambridge Junction 5th March 2014. Was Nico easy to live with? The Bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke became a doctor today after receiving an honorary degree in his home city. If you read the lyrics to Its Magic, that very sexy Doris Day song, for example, you are already singing the song they leave you no other way to go. The fact is you need help, though. I didnt meet her then, but she was in the audience. Now, Im no expert, but I think when it comes to guys, the less said about the hips the better. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. In the past, I have worn a more adventurous colour palette but Im red/green colour blind so its an area of anxiety for me. But then things started to buck up. That movie, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, starring Barry Evans, for which Traffic did the theme, was set there. Evidently Chickentown Lyrics. That terrible inertia they captured that brilliantly.". There were events hosted by beat poets at the Royal Albert Hall in the Sixties, but they were ensemble shows and they didn't always sell out. The poet-performer talks to Tim Adams about his new book and tour and, further down, answers questions from readers and famous fans. I'd seen her not long before. Steve2505 Have you ever seen Our Cartoon President? Beasley Street E John Cooper Clarke 7. "[19] His poem "I Wanna Be Yours" was adapted by Arctic Monkeys and frontman Alex Turner for the band's fifth album, AM, released on 9 September 2013. Of course you still occasionally have that voice in your head that says: 'You are going to get rumbled; what you're doing is just a piece of piss. TA: You were more Sinatra than Elvis back then?No. ", His fragile frame is the result not, as some assume, of his years as a heroin addict, which are long behind him, but a legacy of the TB he suffered as a child. But since then, now I dont get a bad time from hecklers, and invariably enjoy the love of the poetry-reading public, it has become a much more relaxed affair. Phone orders min p&p of 1.99. It would be wrong to dismiss John Cooper Clarke as nothing more than a nave creator of knockabout rhyme. ", His father worked at Trafford Park, the biggest industrial estate in Europe. Trains coming down the middle of the road. There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. August 24, 2017 October 21, . He will turn 70 next year. His book choice was Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans, his luxury item was a boulder of opium twice the size of his head and his favourite track was "How Great Thou Art" by Elvis Presley. "I was ill all the time as a boy," he says. "The bottles were bad. I'm in a good place now.". My look is very easy to maintain but that wasnt always the case in the 80s, I couldnt find anything. BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (Nov 2016) Somebody once said that a wedding is a funeral where you can smell your own flowers. "Over two decades on," he says, "some kinds of reputation never leave you. In the early Nineties, in a pub in Withington, South Manchester, Tony Wilson, the late founder of Factory Records, stopped in the middle of a sentence concerning another of his favourite subjects, himself, then told me: "You know, it isn't me. So I had lines like: 'The choice Iranian on my foil / It runs like virgin olive oil / I'm living the life of a decadent royal / It could spoil, it could spoil, it could spoil you / Rotten here in jail. But now, finally" He pauses, not wishing to appear immodest. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' It was just terrible.". I need some encouragement. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). 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He stayed with me occasionally in London in those years and he was not an ideal guest: getting up around 4pm, then sitting up past dawn, working through my library of low-budget horror films. I think," Costello continues, "this might be why he is not greatly regarded by literary snobs. No. Arctic Monkeys John Cooper Clarke was born on January 25, 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. His perennial UK tours he is just about to embark on another are invariably sold out to audiences of all ages. rycu It is a small part of what he does. [2] His first releases were on Tosh Ryan and Martin Hannett's independent label Rabid,[7] starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. If you had any sense you wouldnt look to me for any life lessons. One of the more fortunate breaks in his poetic career, he suggests, was that he looked like a punk before punk rock arrived. "On one tour," Costello told me, "John went on between Richard Hell and The Voidoids and ourselves. Publicity Listings Popular John Cooper Clarke albums This Time It's Personal. Clarke's recording of "Evidently Chickentown" from his album Snap, Crackle & Bop was also featured prominently in the closing scene of The Sopranos episode Stage 5. He pays the money and limps home after receiving a severe pasting. If you went to see a band, the Beatles, the Stones, they were up there on the stage; you would naturally expect all the sound to come from their general direction. The cover features a Peter Blake painting of his stick man profile, and embossed graphics in Scrabble tiles. In January 2018 Clarke appeared as a contestant on an academic version of BBC One's Pointless Celebrities partnered with historian Suzannah Lipscomb; they reached the head-to-head round. "Evidently Chickentown" (recited by Christopher Eccleston) is featured in the made-for-television film Strumpet. | In 1979, he had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix! Sexy Little Swine Often referred to as "the bard of Salford",[9] he usually refers to himself on stage as "Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle". Cooper Clarke's audience, once a sea of grey, now has a healthy quotient of 16-25s. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl. on 14 August 2015[24] and again on 7 January 2022.[25]. But mostly it is down to his brilliant rambling dramatic monologue of a stage show, which has become less staccato over the years. A Music War, in which he performed his poem "Health Fanatic". "Frontal lobes just had a trim," it begins, "or did you meet the Moonies? 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