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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Dr John Cooper Clarke joins the Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week performance poet John Cooper Clarke joins Gary and Guy to talk about his career, from his discovery of the powers of poetry at school to his status today as something of a national treasure. Always a fan of music, and galvanised by the Beatles and The Stones, he tried his hand playing bass in a band, but soon found he wanted to work with words, and began writing and performing his own poetry. In this episode he discusses Dylan, Ronnie Wood as a style icon and how being covered by the Arctic Monkeys has brought his work to the attention of billions. 

John is touring the UK in October and November 2026 - find out more at linktr.ee/johncooperclarke


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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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0:09.3

Hello, Gary.

0:10.2

Hello, Guy.

0:11.1

Before we do anything, I want to correct the record because during the Richard Barbieri interview,

0:17.2

I made a mistake, and it's been pointed out in quite a few comments,

0:20.5

and it was shockingly slack and embarrassing. And I need mistake and it's been pointed out in quite a few comments and it was shockingly

0:21.8

slack and embarrassing. I need to point out. Which is made it, it was when we were talking about

0:27.0

dark side of the moon and how a lot of the sound effects and stuff were found, I said that even

0:33.2

though I knew, I knew, of course I knew, that Alan Parsons, that the clocks at the start of time,

0:40.7

I said that they were from a BBC sound effects record. Of course they weren't. They were

0:44.1

recorded by Alan Parsons for a documentary. The point being, they were just found. They weren't

0:49.5

specifically for that. And I know this is incredibly dull, but I know how upset some people can get

0:54.0

by this

0:54.5

sort of thing. So you haven't been gone up in front of any sort of Floydian authorities over this?

1:00.9

No, no, I haven't been a hauled before the beak yet.

1:04.1

The judge in the wall.

1:06.8

Exactly.

1:07.6

Whatever that judge was called on the wall.

1:10.2

For the trial.

1:11.5

Yeah, we saw each other last night, didn't we?

1:14.0

We did that rather fabulous David Bowie thing.

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