Manchester

Interview: Paul Morley

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 According to his online profile for The Guardian – the English broadsheet for which he writes on a regular basis – Paul Morley is a “rock’n’roll journalist who is from London.” As they said with some frequency in the days before Google – surely shome mishtake? “A rock’n’roll journalist from London?” ponders 56-year-old Morley, very much … Read more Interview: Paul Morley

Interview: John Cooper Clarke

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With a back-story that he will totally blank questions about, a bagful of lyric books and a rapid-fire delivery, Salford poet John Cooper Clarke has, against the odds, survived to tell many a tale. He’s a happy-go-lucky guy, he says, a bit grumpy on an occasional basis, but mostly just a thin man with a … Read more Interview: John Cooper Clarke