A mobile phone.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
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English poet
United Kingdom · b. 1949
John Cooper Clarke, 64, grew up in Salford. He worked as a lab technician before becoming a performance poet and touring with the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Fall. He released six albums and in 1983 published a bestselling poetry book, Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt, before his output waned, a consequence of heroin addiction. Since his recovery, he has played himself in Control, a film about Joy Division, and been the subject of a BBC4 documentary. This summer, he is performing at Latitude, Camp Bestival and Bestival. He is married with a daughter and lives in Colchester.
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A mobile phone.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
Peter Hitchens: he ploughs the lonely furrow.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
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