I Wanna Be Yours: John Cooper Clarke

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A book of two halves by Britain's "bargain basement Baudelaire" as poet John Cooper Clarke writes an autobiography of sorts. The first half of the book is an exercise in nostalgia as Clarke details growing up in the 1950's, 60's and early 1970's and the social and cultural developments in Britain during those decades with a welter of information about his favourite films, books, comics, songs, bands and much more.

Sideways glances on existence from a man who has lived a very interesting life. By all acounts JCC single handedly kept Pablo Escobar in hippos (I jest) 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 Lyrical Genius". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007 . Retrieved 20 August 2007. Alex Turner also has "John Cooper Clarke" tattooed on his armOn 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. Probably the least interesting section in many ways is, inevitably, the one dealing with JCC's years of drug addiction. Reading about his adventures on tour around the world with various groups and artists is to enjoy a colourful whirlwind of people and places, entertainingly described. However, the story of his constant pursuit of narcotics soon becomes exhausting to read, although it powerfully brings home the nature and effects of addiction: in this he pulls few punches. Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , Elijah W. Meddaugh , William Jennison , Henry Allen Chaney , Hovey K. Clarke , Hoyt Post , William Dudley Fuller , John Adams Brooks , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper 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. The first part of the book, had me fascinated, since JCC is not far off the age my Dad would have been and so his fascination with the cinema and movie stars was something also that my Dad used to treasure. It feels a little like we're being invited into his world just a little at this point.

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... His acquaintances run the gamut from Bernard Manning to Nico - via everyone famous from Manchester and the punk/post punk era. I saw John Cooper Clarke on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and found his audio book on Libby. l am glad I got to hear the works read by the poet - it is always great knowing you are hearing the poem the way it should be read, and John Cooper-Clarks voice and accent contribute to the experience.I also enjoyed “I’ve Fallen in Love with My Wife,” written in 11 stanzas, most ending with the title. It begins, The second quarter, which has some overlap with the first, describes JCC's first forays into apprenticeships, the working world, and his career as a performance poet. In a book of many surprises, one of the earliest is that John's first regular residency as a performer in Manchester's clubs was at Bernard Manning's Embassy Club. As he says, whatever your view of Manning's comedy, he was a master at what he did in terms of running a nightclub and encouraging new talent - however grudgingly. JCC also frequently encountered Northern disco entrepreneur Jimmy Savile - but the less said about him the better. The life of a useless flâneur, however, was not encouraged in the 1950s, especially among the blue-collar population of a heavy-industrial metropolis like Manchester." Last year Clarke responded to an Observer reader who asked him whether he had believed he could ever stop using the drug. Perry, George,Clarke, John, d. ca. 1815, engraver,Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) former owner. DSI,Cooper Union Library, former owner. DSI (1811)

Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , William Jennison , Elijah W. Meddaugh , Hovey K. Clarke , Hoyt Post , Henry Allen Chaney , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper , William Dudley Fuller , John Adams Brooks , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell 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).I Wanna Be Yours is very much a book of four quarters. The first, detailing his childhood and early life in a mainly Jewish area (he acted as a "shabas goy" for his orthodox neighbours) of Salford in Manchester is fascinating: as a piece of writing on the social history of this part of Lancashire in the early 50s it is glorious, vivid and full of detail. JCC's writing evokes so much atmosphere that you can visualise everything in glorious sepia.

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. Arctics go for poetry". Ananova. Archived from the original on 30 June 2007 . Retrieved 20 August 2007. Curiously, everything after his rehab and recovery seems rushed or at least in a lot less detail. Which feels odd, too, because it seems it's these years that he's never been happier. Perhaps there's not much to say about happiness!In 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 ...). a b c Hattenstone, Simon (29 May 2012). "John Cooper Clarke: 'It's diabolical how poor I am' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 9 October 2015.