I Wanna Be Yours: John Cooper Clarke

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Clarke has lived for more than 25 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. They have one daughter, Stella. [15] [31] Discography [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] Various – Short Circuit – Live At The Electric Circus (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 10 October 1978 . Retrieved 23 May 2014. I've also had the joy of meeting him a few years ago and he is a very lovely gentleman indeed. So it was with delight I received his memoirs 'I wanna be yours' as a Birthday present from my friend. And eager to know more about this elusive figure, I dived in.

John Cooper Clarke honoured by University of Salford". BBC News. 19 July 2013 . Retrieved 9 October 2015. It felt like half of the book was about his heroin addiction and his sourcing the drug and how he took it or what the effects of it were like. I know the book is an autobography and this is what his life was like for around twenty years, but I found it depressing to read. Again that probably is not the books fault but not what I want to spend so much time reading. That early section is a fascinating look at popular culture of the 40s, 50s and 60s in some ways. But in other ways, it feels like a different book from what follows... A portrait of the artist as a young, and then middle aged, drug addict (the sections of the book I found most interesting). Sublime. What a new time in recent times to add to his classics. Speaking of which, this is how I felt in 2014 when re-reading John's 10 Years...

Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , William Jennison , Elijah W. Meddaugh , William Dudley Fuller , Hovey K. Clarke , John Adams Brooks , Hoyt Post , Henry Allen Chaney , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell I was really excited when I found out that he was going to be releasing an autobiography. His crazy and random tales from his crazy and random life. I couldn’t wait. I listened to I Wanna Be Yours on Audiobook. I wanted to hear how John Cooper Clarke told his stories. Would they be like his poems? Would I be totally mesmerised and engaged. The answer to both of those questions is yes. His lyric style does not end at his poetic outputs. I genuinely feel that his lyricism and enunciation would be like having an every day conversation with John Cooper Clarke. On the whole, I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys modern poetry, though I'd also suggest searching out some recordings of him performing his own work as well since that's the way it's really meant to be consumed.

I remember enjoying ‘Kung Fu International’ in the’70’s and have recently seen his appearances on the comedy quiz show ‘8 out of 10 cats does countdown’, including a performance of the poem which forms the title of this book.John was a heroin addict for a few decades, so the second half of the book contains a lot of detail about scoring drugs, many with celebrity addict pals and some are truly hair raising tales. Miraculously he survived despite nearly dying on three occasions. One time, whilst with Nico in Amsterdam, he scores off an old, skinny guy with grey greasy hair and no front teeth. It's only years later he realises, whilst watching the film Let’s Get Lost, that it was Chet Baker. Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , Elijah Wood Meddaugh , William Jennison , Hovey K. Clarke , Hoyt Post , Henry Allen Chaney , John Adams Brooks , William Dudley Fuller , James Reasoner , Marquis Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell , Richard W. Cooper The 'Bard of Salford' is set to be given the city's greatest honour". Manchester Evening News. 17 July 2023 . Retrieved 19 July 2023. Agenda of Council on Wednesday 19 July 2023 at 2.00 pm". Salford City Council. 12 July 2023 . Retrieved 19 July 2023. John Cooper Clarke – punk poet, bard of Salford – has had a chequered life, from growing up in post-war austerity Britain, through hardcore drug abuse, to being a kind of national treasure.

Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , Elijah Wood Meddaugh , William Jennison , Hovey K. Clarke , Hoyt Post , Marquis Eaton , Henry Allen Chaney , William Dudley Fuller , John Adams Brooks , Herschel Bouton Lazell , James Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper a b c d e f g h i Strong, Martin C. (2003). The Great Indie Discography. Canongate. pp.33–34. ISBN 1-84195-335-0.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. [28] He has also been a panellist on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. However, this has not sold me on autobiographies as I thought it would. Don't get me wrong, I love JCC and you could feel his dry humour throughout. There were some great sections of writing but on the whole, it felt like a bit of a slog to get through. I think this is because he details a lot of social history, particularly in Manchester in the 60s and the lists of significant people who some of us will never have heard of get tedious. I appreciate that Clarke probably feels that these details are a big part of his most formative years but I felt it could have been cut down.

On December 20, 2021, Clarke made a guest appearance in We Wish You a Mandy Christmas, a Christmas episode of Mandy (TV series), playing the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The bard of Salford does not disappoint - except in one regard, how does he manage to stay pencil thin whilst the rest of us balloon? Just not fairIn the middle of all that music there is, and has always been, the sound of John Cooper Clarke, whose rapid fire delivery of pointed, observational lines of simple gloriousness instilled in me a love of edgy performance poets. I do, however, credit 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown with a renewed interest in Clarke's work, his performances on my favourite gameshow an instant audio reminder of the times of my youth. (Health Fanatic - look it up, the final stanza has always been in my head ...). Not all the poems are as good as this, of course. There are one or two that read as mildly homophobic or transphobic (nothing outright, really, but I noticed regardless) and some that I maybe don't get because they're more specific to Britain. However, for the most part, I enjoyed this little book quite a lot. His sense of humor is biting and slightly dark, which suits me right down to the ground, and his way of playing with language is just...fun. I'm not usually one for autobiographies and thinking about it now, I think maybe the only proper autobiographical writing I've read is Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Now I can add John Cooper Clarke's I Wanna Be Yours to make a list of two.