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.

Dr John Cooper Clarke, who lives in the Colchester area, has revealed details about his hit poem, I Wanna Be Yours. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Cooper Clarke has revealed how collaborating with Arctic Monkeys changed his life “to an incalculable degree”. The performance poet, 76, who is nicknamed “the Bard of Salford”, was speaking at ...