John Cooper Clarke : The John Robb interview
From his hotel room in Chicago, the good doctor keeps us up to date with his US tour, doing a stadium with the Arctic Monkeys, the art of words and so much more...
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00:00 what rhymes with corona
00:37 Chicago my kind of town
01:00 compere for Arctic monkeys in New York to 18 000 people
01:42 Never in my worst nightmare would I be the Alan Ginsburg figure
02:26 Howl is quite a piece of work
02:42 I was pals with Gregory Corso
04:18 the poetry Olympics on the Tesco principle
04:48 Gregory Corso moved to Manchester
05:25 First time I heard the word beatnik
07:00 Steve Allen
07:30 Jack Kerouac
08:00 Lenny Bruce
10:30 Bob Monkhouse
10:40 Catskill comedy
12:00 Salford Beatnik
12:30 Kinky hair
14:00 Larry Parnes
15:00 Provincial identitarianism is the product of independent record labels
17:00 punk poet
18:00 editing words
19:00 how many syllables?
21:50 the micro haiku
22:19 The wreck of the Prima Donner
23:00 Edgar Allen Poe
32:00 The Arctic Monkeys
34:00 the art of performing
36:00 good tailoring
36:46 Johnny Green - kleenex suits and capsule wardrobes...