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What's In My Bag № 405

John Cooper Clarke

Poet 3 albums picked

John Cooper Clarke, also known as JCC and "The Bard of Salford", is an English performance poet and comedian who was often referred to as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands and has continued to write and perform since. The title of his first poetry anthology, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt, published in 1982, was also used for a documentary film about him in the same year.

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What John Cooper Clarke said · 2 records

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The Best Of Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler ·1962
"The Best of Jerry Butler. The writer of many pop hits in the 60's for the likes of the Walker Brothers. But he did the best version of 'For Your Precious Love' that's a song that was covered by the best, Jackie Wilson, etc. That's Jerry 'The Iceman' Butler."
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