He is the one-man brand who was largely responsible
for branding me. My life is contained and encapsulated within his prose. He is, and not just in my view, a wordsmith without peer.
I thought I was “the post-war glamour girl who
was never alone.” I totally understood “the altogether ruder readers wives”
having found ‘mucky’ mags under my uncle’s bed when making it.
John Cooper Clarke. He may mean nothing to some
of you, but he means an awful lot to me. He showed me how words paint pictures
and how to use words to bring those pictures to life. He taught me the
importance of authenticity – both in delivery and what you are to others. His
1978 album Disguise in Love is the Scalextric of my life, professional and otherwise.
BBC4 are doing a thing on him tonight at 10pm.
Watch it. You’ll
learn a lot.
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