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The Independent
A life of rhyme: John Cooper Clarke, the 'punk Poet Laureate', grants Robert Chalmers his first major interview in more than 20 years
The late Tony Wilson once told me, "I'm not the one who will have his life turned into legend, in the way that happened to Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud. It won't be me. It will be John Cooper Clarke." "Bloody hell," says the poet. Full Article at The Independent
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was rendered hilarious by his voice in a way which is just impossible to replicate in print. I think
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I come from a generation that makes no distinction between highbrow and lowbrow culture ... It doesn't matter whether it's Shostakovich or the Sex Pistols. If it's good, it's good. John just has this gift for lyricism, metre and rhyme. It's a talent that 'literary' poets would kill for.
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he went on between Richard Hell and the Voidoids and ourselves. The fury of the crowds was quite alarming at that time. They spat and yelled at John because he was only speaking. What he did was extremely brave, especially for a self-confessed coward.
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I read in the paper that 90 per cent of tramps and vagrants get that way from a broken heart
– John Cooper Clarke SOURCE: The Independent
