Old music: John Cooper Clarke – (You Never See a Nipple in the) Daily Express

Here's one for the Leveson inquiry: the Salford bard's thoughts on the Daily Express For a while in the late 1970s John Cooper Clarke was a fixture on the new wave scene, impressively convincing punk rock crowds that what they really wanted to hear was an evening of poetry. John Betjeman it wasn't. Rail-thin, with extravagantly backcombed barnet, drainpipe suit and Chelsea boots, he looked like a nightmare version of Dont Look Back-era Bob Dylan with a Salford drawl.On record his poems usually e...

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