John Cooper Clarke
English poet · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1949 · age 77
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.
Busiest day 5 Nov
Read more often than usual, most of all on 5 November.
5.6 times the usual readers on 5 November. 3,844 readers on 5 November, against about 691 a day before the rise.
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, Have I seen Schindler's List? I was on Schindler's list - Dr Schindler my dentist that is.
[on his Dad] He didn't share the general public's dim view of the late Joseph Stalin.
Marcel was a modern-day Robin Hood; he would rob from the rich because the poor have no money.
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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.
