Seeing John Cooper Clarke again got me reminiscing. He was always cropping up on 80's music or arty programmes and became rather famous considering he was a poet. The 'Bard of Salford', often labelled as a Punk Poet, regularly opened lived sets for the likes of Joy Division, Buzzcocks, The Sex Pistols and The Fall.Arctic Monkey's hero Johnny Clarke has dated Nico, battled heroin addiction, apparently played himself in the film 'Control' and was probably partly responsible for inspiring Rik Mayall's 'People's Poet' character, but his crowning achievement was no doubt his 1988 appearances in the Sugar Puffs commercials.
Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise to see his 'Evidently Chickentown' being used in the closing scene of a recent Sopranos episode. Taken from his 1980 album Snap Crackle and Bop
. I found this clip (not from Sopranos) on YouTube but I have no idea where it was originally from. Hope you like it.
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