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The big front end that touched america was the pistols, clash, costello, pretenders, but behind the more popular faces of british punkindependent were all kinds of oneofakinds like ian dury, xray spex, stranglers, jilted john and john cooper clarke. There was a time when john cooper clarke refused all requests for interviews. John cooper clarke is quite possibly the coolest human being walking the. This book contains a lengthy appreciation of mr cooper clarke, and beasley street in particular. Over little if any backing track his words pick apart the world around him in a voice. The crack of dawn hes lifting weights his telltale heart reverberates hes high in polyunsaturates low in polysaturates the duke of edinburghs award awaits its a mans life hes a health fanatic so was his wife. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continues to perform regularly. Top john cooper clarke lyrics evidently chickentown gaberdine angus conditional discharge twat i married a monster from outer space i wanna be yours thirtysix hours 23rd majorca spilt beans. Mar 11, 2009 beasley street is the john cooper clarke poem most people call to mind. He is often referred to as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s amidst the flourishing punk movement. As with disguise in love, the album featured the invisible girls as the backing band and was produced by martin hannett. Satisfaction, comes and goes biological action, cannot be froze a sexual recharge, a plug in a socket conditional discharge, a sticky deposit. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over.
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His best and most famous work, poems like beasley street, night people, and. Satisfaction, comes and goes biological action, cannot be froze a sexual recharge, a plug in a socket conditional discharge, a sticky deposit more on the sick. Far from crazy pavements the taste of silver spoons a clinical arrangement on a dirty afternoon where the fecal germs of mr freud are rend. Licensed to youtube by emi music publishing, solar music rights management, bmg rights management, and 4 music rights. John cooper clarke born 25 january 1949 is an english performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a punk poet. Beasley street is a track from the 1980 album snap, crackle and bop by british poet john cooper clarke. Oct 18, 2016 lyrics john cooper clarke beasley street far from crazy pavements the taste of silver spoons a clinical arrangement on a dirty afternoon where the fecal germs of mr freud are rendered obsolete.
Beasley street is one of the many notable works by punk poet john cooper clarke. John cooper clarke came to australia three times in the first half of the 1980s. Com the bard of salford, unleashes his poetic visions of urban decay and social exclusion in the classic beasley street. Regardless, these remain stunning rhymes and he does take risks, cracking wise about. Watch the video for beasley street from john cooper clarke s the very best of for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.
A random fuck, dirty sheets a crack in a cup, a lavatory seat im in the dark about where i got it condtional discharge, a sticky deposit. For those who attended, and quite possibly for the man himself, the finer details of those tours might be lost in. Cars collide, colours clash disaster movie stuff for a man with a fu manchu moustache revenge is not enough theres a dead canary on a swivel seat theres a rainbow in the road meanwhile on beasley street silence is the code. John cooper clarke some cunt used the n word youtube.
John cooper clarke listen and stream free music, albums. John cooper clarke also uses alliteration to great effect. Hot beneath the collar an inspector calls where the perishing stink of squalor. Bard of salford john cooper clarke talks to rob fitzpatrick. To take one of my more popular poems, beasley street. Dealing with poverty in innercity salford in the britain of margaret thatcher, cooper clarke has said that the poem was inspired by camp street in lower broughton.
Dr john cooper clarke presents anthologia, the iconic poets first, definitive collection of his work. Beasley street lyrics performed by john cooper clarke. Thirty years on john has updated beasley street as beasley boulevard, he explained why, well, it was kind of natural as thirty years later i was doing a programme for radio 4 called bespoken word and they asked me to do beasley street, so i said, its been done so much and neighbourhoods dont stay the same. The poem is often set to music during live performances. Original first pressings of the lp included a booklet with the lyrics from john cooper clarke s 1978 album disguise in love together with photographs and. Licensed to youtube by emi music publishing, solar music rights management, bmg rights management, and 4 music rights societies. John cooper clarke born january 25, 1949 is a performance poet from salford, lancashire, england, affectionately known as the bard of salford. On the penultimate verse, there is use of internal rhyme easy, greasy, queasy, beastly beasley street which has the effect of building intensity. To convey ones mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic.
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Far from crazy pavements the taste of silver spoons a clinical arrangement on a dirty afternoon where the fecal germs of mr freud. The very best of by john cooper clarke on amazon music. Anthologia brings together material from a career spanning over 40 years, and incorporates studio versions with music from martin hannett and invisible girls plus spoken word performances across three cds. To convey ones mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic, as they used to say on stingray. Its likely if you sang in the street youd be nicked the double diamond flowed like sick.
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