“I couldn’t listen to Genesis or Yes and feel like they were writing songs for me. It wasn’t my music! But with punk, I could understand the songs; the words mattered”: John Cooper Clarke on inspiration, addiction and being endorsed by Arctic Monkeys
“There are all sorts of technical gizmos you can get these days, but I still prefer a notebook and pencil,” says the performance poet
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