John Cooper Clarke: 'A national treasure? I hate that'
He is about to become the first poet to headline a UK arena, but says he isn't ready for national treasure status.
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“I couldn’t listen to Genesis or Yes and feel like they were writing songs for me. It wasn’t my music! But with punk, I could understand the songs; the words mattered ...
John Cooper Clarke “Excellence cannot be defined ... which provided the lyrics for a song of the same name on the Arctic Monkeys multi-million selling 2013 album, AM. Alex Turner has even ...
John Cooper Clarke: 'More people than ever seem to be into me'
John Cooper ... course turned one of Clarke’s poems into song from, with the mighty I Wanna Be Yours from the album 3AM. “Last time I was out in the States, Arctic Monkeys were doing a doing ...
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John Cooper Clarke: “Alex Turner’s a fantastic lyricist”
John Cooper Clarke has said he thinks Alex Turner is a "fantastic lyricist". The poet's work, "I Wanna Be Yours", is put to music on the new Arctic Monkeys album AM, which will be released on ...
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Punk poet, John Cooper Clarke, to come to The Apex
He is known as the 'Godfather of Punk Poetry,' and has created the world's most popular wedding poem: 'I Wanna Be Yours' which inspired the Arctic Monkeys song of the same name. Cooper Clarke is ...
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John Cooper Clarke: 'A national treasure? I hate that'
John Cooper Clarke is nicknamed ... Although not strictly a musician, Clarke is closely associated with the music scene - from punk to the Arctic Monkeys, who turned his 1982 poem I Wanna Be ...