I’ve worked with the best of them, but The Fall I would watch night in, night out. Each performance seemed unique.” Various – Short Circuit – Live At The Electric Circus (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 10 October 1978 . Retrieved 23 May 2014. Published: 28 Oct 2018 John Cooper Clarke: 'My trousers? River Island or M&S. The skinniest they do'

Unusually, I was more interested in reading this biography for the company the man kept, rather than the man himself. Short Circuit – Live At The Electric Circus [35] (1978), Virgin (various artists, features Clarke performing "(You Never See a Nipple In The) Daily Express" and "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" Every drug addict is virtually the same person. There’s not really much point in dwelling on it. I needed money more than ever, so I had to work. The glamour was flaking off with every new job. I really felt like I was selling my sorry ass.”Lyrical Genius". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007 . Retrieved 20 August 2007. Alex Turner also has "John Cooper Clarke" tattooed on his arm The book is funny in places and I suppose written with a dry sense of humour, I would like to have learnt more about the last twenty years since he stopped taking hard drugs. He says it has been more of the same, but to me so had those twenty years of hard drug use. Clarke has lived for more than 25 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. They have one daughter, Stella. [15] [31] Discography [ edit ] Albums [ edit ]

Leslie, Charles Robert, -,Clarke, Harriet Ludlow, d. ,Williams, Samuel, -,Cooper, James Davis, -,Whymper, Josiah Wood, -,Scharf, George, -,Cozens, John Robert, -,Girtin, Thomas, -John was a heroin addict for a few decades, so the second half of the book contains a lot of detail about scoring drugs, many with celebrity addict pals and some are truly hair raising tales. Miraculously he survived despite nearly dying on three occasions. One time, whilst with Nico in Amsterdam, he scores off an old, skinny guy with grey greasy hair and no front teeth. It's only years later he realises, whilst watching the film Let’s Get Lost, that it was Chet Baker. I was eagerly anticipating this and got it within a few hours of release; went for the audiobook version because JCC has one of the most characterful and listenable voices in showbusiness. Felt wrong listening to it at my usual 1.5 speed so I set it at normal pace and 15 hours in John's company later I'm going to start again at the beginning.