i wanna be yours

 

I Wanna Be Yours covers an extraordinary life, filled with remarkable personalities: from Nico to Chuck Berry, from Bernard Manning to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Elvis Costello to Gregory Corso, Gil Scott Heron, Mark E. Smith and Joe Strummer, and on to more recent fans and collaborators Alex Turner, Plan B and Guy Garvey. Clarke has chronicled his life and career in a sprightly memoir, I Wanna Be Yours, from his postwar childhood in Salford, blighted by tuberculosis, to establishment credentials. Clarke has his unreconstructed moments – there is jovial mention of “whores” and “nancy-boys” – but any mockery is at his own expense. //]]>, Sorry, we have to make sure you're a human before we can show you this page. Relationships. Kitchen Sink Genre- Ordinary. Testo. 2020-01-15T08:03:13Z Comment by kiera toles. In the early 1970s, he road-tested poems such as “Salome”, “I Married a Monster from Outer Space” and “Kung Fu International” at local comedy clubs (Bernard Manning was an unlikely mentor). I apologize that I haven't been posting for a very long time, I'll try to be active if I can. Even if you can't travel abroad, take an extraordinary journey on John Cooper Clarke's magic carpet, each of its 320 pages and photographs an absolute delight. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer In terms of complexity, it is simplistic. Indeed, you’d struggle to find a more comprehensive and entertaining account of 60s and 70s popular culture as he contemplates fashion, hair styles, hats, comics, breakfast cereals, magazines, domestic colour schemes and architecture. Once out of hospital, he was sent to Rhyl to stay with an uncle and take in the sea air. I Wanna Be Yours covers an extraordinary life, filled with remarkable personalities: from Nico to Chuck Berry, from Bernard Manning to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Elvis Costello to Gregory Corso, Gil Scott Heron, Mark E. Smith and Joe Strummer, and on to more recent fans and collaborators Alex Turner, Plan B and Guy Garvey. But then, in the late 80s, he dropped out of sight, undone by a heroin addiction that he had been trying to hide for more than 15 years. Even Philip Larkin “turned out to be a librarian by day”. 2020-01-15T08:03:00Z Comment by kiera toles. “I’ve had just about every reward a society could bestow on a half-arsed grafter with a rich vocabulary and I thank God for my life on a daily basis,” he notes in a rare misty-eyed moment. Elsewhere, though, he remains bullishly unsentimental. i wanna be yours (Context (John Cooper Clarke, Performance Poet, Average… i wanna be yours. “It just ain’t right. I styled myself as the alluring silk-suited entertainer, slicker than snot on a doorknob, using poetry as my ticket to the Big Life.”. I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review – chapter and verse ‘A mohair-suited Proust’: John Cooper Clarke in 2018. At 12, he was tackling Dostoevsky, Dumas, Dickens and Émile Zola’s The Downfall, the latter prompting him to conclude: “Thank God I don’t live a hundred years ago – the shit that could happen to a guy.” At home, he would read his uncle’s Bond books and his mother’s copies of Woman’s Own magazine, the latter providing handy updates from “planet female”. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. !function(t,e,r){var n,s=t.getElementsByTagName(e)[0],i=/^http:/.test(t.location)? John Cooper Clarke. Championed by Tony Wilson and John Peel, he went on to perform with the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Elvis Costello and Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Compassion. Much of his tale is as bleak as his poetry, but Clarke is a droll observer of his own life, guiding us through a childhood of benign neglect to later heroin addiction and an often terrifying cast of characters. He landed a record deal – his biggest album was Snap, Crackle & Bop (1980) – and published poetry collections. In I Wanna Be Yours, Clarke chronicles his life from his early days growing up in a Salford suburb. i wanna yours. Performance Poet. //