He said The Arctic Monkeys had helped give him a new audience, after using his poem, I Wanna Be Yours, as one of their songs, on their AM album, and said: "Thanks guys." He said: "I was pitching it.

John Cooper Clarke has revealed how collaborating with Arctic Monkeys changed his life “to an incalculable degree”. The ...

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner heard Clarke’s poetry as a teenager. His teacher read Clarke’s poem, “I Wanna Be Yours,” and according to Turner, it forever changed his writing.

But it’s a fuck of a lot of listens.” Clarke’s poem, which Artic Monkeys singer Alex Turner quotes from on the ‘AM’ song of the same name with a few tweaks here and there, has become a ...

THE words to one of his works may have just been streamed three billion times, but yesterday John Cooper Clarke revealed he “knocked off” the poem in just two hours. Dr John Cooper Clarke, who ...

His unique poetry – and delivery style – was recorded ... One of those studying it was Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, who later said: “It made my ears prick up in the classroom, because ...

Here are songs by Arctic Monkeys that share similar themes, musical elements, or emotional tones with “Wanna Be Yours.” “I Wanna Be Yours” was released on September 9, 2013, as part of the ...

Clarke also found a new generation of fans when Arctic Monkeys set his poem “I Wanna Be Yours” to music on their fifth album, AM. Speaking to journalist Miranda Sawyer at an event on Wednesday ...