
John Cooper Clarke: Punk and poetry
The Interview
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The Rise and Fall of Punk
I was dressed in a particular way that I thought fitted that environment. What you did was harness your act to a whole sort of youth revolution. This is as good as it got in the cabaret world. Do you think that you would have broken through had it not been for punk? No. But there were precedents. Nobody comes out of nowhere. The early days of variety. And American culture, because you can't have American movies and American music. Absolutely. So you had that beat-knit thing coming over from the states where it was a kinder swinging thing to be. Don't forget this is about late 1975. Yeah.
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