“The audience I was getting just before the punk days, there was one thing you could take for granted, none of them were particularly interested in poetry.” --John Cooper Clarke props up the bar in The Black Lion, Salford
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“God, drugs, eh? That's the trouble, they're indiscriminate. The good memories go with the fucking shit you're trying to block out!” --John Cooper Clarke
“John Cooper Clarke had this long relationship with Nico from the Velvet Underground whose life ended very sadly ... and he never says anything about it because he's a gentleman” --Stewart Lee
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