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I Wanna Be Yours

Auteur(s): John Cooper Clarke
Narrateur(s): John Cooper Clarke
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This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This audiobook, read by the author, will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.

John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inches (32in chest, 27in waist), in trademark dark suit, dark glasses, with dark messed-up hair and a mouth full of gold teeth, he is instantly recognizable. As a writer his voice is equally unmistakable and his own brand of slightly sick humour is never far from the surface.

I Wanna Be Yours covers an extraordinary life, filled with remarkable personalities: from Nico to Chuck Berry, from Bernard Manning to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Elvis Costello to Gregory Corso, Gil Scott Heron, Mark E. Smith and Joe Strummer, and on to more recent fans and collaborators Alex Turner, Plan B and Guy Garvey. Interspersed with stories of his rock and roll and performing career, John also reveals his boggling encyclopaedic take on popular culture over the centuries: from Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe to Pop Art, pop music, the movies, fashion, football and showbusiness – and much, much more, plus a few laughs along the way.

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Ce que les critiques en disent

This is not a ‘ponderous trudge through the turgid facts of an ill-remembered life’ but the kind of autobiography Rimbaud might have written if he had been a Mancunian stand-up comedian. (Graham Robb)
The bookshop shelves have been clogged up for years by musicians and artists who made their debuts in the sulphurous days of 1976-7, but I Wanna Be Yours, the autobiography of the "punk poet" John Cooper Clarke, aka "the Bard of Salford", knocked most of the competition into a cocked hat.
Any autobiography that features both Bernard Manning and Nico is unlikely to disappoint; even less so when it’s written with such brilliantly Dickensian vigour by the Bard of Salford, John Cooper Clarke . . .this fast, funny book catches his life in its lines
Manchester punk poet John Cooper Clarke takes a rather different approach to heroin addiction, treating it as a source of humour in his sharply observed, entertaining memoir . . . “Relentless tragedy is always hilarious,” he notes of his eventual recovery. “At some point the laughter has to stop.”
[I Wanna Be Yours] might be the funniest book published this year. Few memoirists have had better material to work with: heroin addiction, years living in a squat with Nico, endless love affairs and a TV appearance with the Honey Monster. Talk about getting the most out of life.
The godfather of British performance poetry
John Cooper Clarke is one of Britain’s outstanding poets. His anarchic punk poetry has thrilled people for decades and his no nonsense approach to his work and life in general has appealed to many people including myself for many years. Long may his slender frame and spiky top produce words and deeds that keep us on our toes and alive to the wonders of the world. (Sir Paul McCartney)
I say to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke and if they say, yes, yeah he's an absolute genius and you just go, 'oh - ok, you've saved me a lot of time (Steve Coogan)
John Cooper Clarke uses words like Chuck Berry uses guitar riffs melody and anger, humour and disdain in equal measure. He's the real deal, really funny and really caustic, the velvet voice of discontent. (Kate Moss)
...nothing short of dazzling (Alex Turner)
There are a legion of new young poets who rightly pay homage to Cooper Clarke (Julian Hall)
It’s impossible not to hear Clarke’s voice, rhythmic & deadpan, while reading his memoir. Like his poetry,his prose style is wry and dry . . . Mad anecdotes & whimsical gags abound, but wisdom often lurks beneath the wordplay.
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I’m always a little amazed people remember so much minutia. I imagine once you get going it all comes back, but you’d expect it wouldn’t be sharp.

At any rate, this was a nice and chill, contemplative recounting of the authors life. It’s very much an assumption of the writer as to what is interesting or not; this time being you obviously want to hear about the punk rock scene in the UK and a sort of behind the scenes meets my life hooked on drugs.

That meets my expectations. It is quite candid and unapologetic (the way I expected it would be based on his personal), what-you-see-is-more-or-less-what-you-get way. He is certainly not painted in a great light, problematic in the ways you’d expect, raised in the 50s. I imagine this will put off some people. You’re not a great person if you give your girlfriend VD, invite her to move in because you feel bad, go on tour, shack up with some else, and completely ghost the ex who doesn’t know she’s an ex.

I imagine this about the same as most of these stories, a bit of embarrassing stories, wow I was an asshole, but also there’s some stuff I’ll never air and it is what it is.

It is more enjoyable because it’s read by the author and the delivery is great. It’s genuinely interesting if you’re interested in the scene or him. It’s granular in his early years and then the pacing kicks it up when he starts writing poetry and getting into the scene. It stops somewhat abruptly as he says from here on out it’s more of the same.m, which is odd because there’s none of the ‘Here’s what I became’. It’s anchored solely in growing up and professional career/ The Scene, with some personal accounting of addiction and who he was dating at the time.

It’s unnecessarily sad a bit that his more progressive thoughts and actions don’t make the cut after the most “interesting” part of his life, kind of. I suppose it might have undercut the more shitty/dramatic aspects of the narrative? Or perhaps that bits saved for another book. Who knows.

Well worth a listen

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