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John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949), 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... [more on Wikipedia]

As a songwriter, John Cooper Clarke first charted in 1979 with Gimmix! Play Loud.The artist scored 1 UK Top‑75 entries.