John Cooper Clarke - 10 Years In An Open Neck Shirt

Looking like a young Bob Dylan, the punk poet John Cooper Clarke released some of the best singles and albums from the punk period. Recently toured Australia, it was great to finally see him live. "Evidently Chickentown" was recently featured in The Sopranos. This is rare clip of his most famous and successful published work, 'Ten Years In An Open-Necked Shirt'. :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• punk
• humour
• poet
• nuns

[polartech]

Cool as hell.. JCC is a total icon. Much respect ;-))))

[miclewis55]

Nice one Rockout........brilliant upload......deserves more hits.......but lets face it ..........most Utube users are TWATS !!

[PaganMam]

No one has ever tried to do this style. Unique.

[myeralan]

Get the fuck! I love him and I'm not a twat

[gregpeg88]

whats the name of the bacing track around 6 mins?

[terrychr11]

Get more Cooper Clarke up here

[Harani66]

thank you for posting this i have been looking for it for years !

[castra58]

@MsRedbelly That WAS back in the day!! I assume you mean the Trade Union club in Sydney? I remember seeing him there twice, circa 1982-83 at a guess?

[MsRedbelly]

Saw JCC @ the Trade Union Club back in the day. Brilliant. So good to see him on the 'tube. Thanks for this!

"...the rats 'ave all got rickets & they spit through broken teeth..."

[fuzzilu]

I still have a copy of Ten years in an open Necked Shirt on video when they showed it on telly many moons back. Amazing then and just as good now :))

[MrAucklandguy]

this is awesome , check out Murray Haddow and his band performing this in New Zealand