# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cooper-clarke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:14.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cooper-clarke"
name: "John Cooper Clarke"
slug: "john-cooper-clarke"
description: "John Cooper Clarke, also known as JCC and \"The Bard of Salford\", is an English performance poet and comedian who was often referred to as a \"punk poet\" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands and has continued to write and perform since. The title of his first poetry anthology, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt, published in 1982, was also used for a documentary film about him in the same year."
tagline: "English poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Cooper_Clarke_(5111742629).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.52484933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164824/"
    handle:    "nm0164824"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johncooperclarke.com"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump