John Cooper Clarke - I Wanna Be Yours

This track, I Wanna Be Yours, is edited from the film, Ten Years In An Open Neck Shirt (© Arts Council of Great Britain, Metropolis Pictures & Channel Four Television Ltd, 1982).

About the poet John Cooper-Clarke, who first attracted attention during the punk movement. Shows him reciting his poems to audiences, talking about his career, discussing the work of earlier poets he admires and working with other new poets including Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Dialogue & Poetry: John Cooper-Clarke

Production Company: Metropolis Pictures Ltd.

© Arts Council of Great Britain, Metropolis Pictures & Channel Four Television Ltd, 1982


Personally, I've never really been a big fan of the shouted word style shown here and because my elder brother, Steve Hopkins, was one of the Invisible Girls and therefore, composed the music and played on a lot of the tracks on the album Zip Style Method, which features this poem, I would also recommend a listen with the music:
   • I Wanna Be Yours   - especially those studying this for their GCSEs. Whilst you're there, check out 'The Ghost of Al Capone' track on this album.