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John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, looks at the world of the suit in music and ventures down to a Soho tailor to discuss the intricacies of the suit.

John Cooper Clarke takes a look at the Suit within a musical context as part of The Sound of Style season, a collaboration between 成人快手 Four and 6 Music looking at the love affair and inextricably linked relationship between fashion and music.

The bespoke and bespectacled Bard of Salford spins two hour of sartorial songs for the switched on generation. John will join his tailoring mate, the Savile Row taught Tom Baker at his Soho establishment to get his inside leg measured and chat about the many intricacies of the modern day suit.

Expect music from Eddie Cochran, The Hives, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Adam Ant.

John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk era of the late 1970s. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s and a written anthology of his work entitled Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt.

At the end of the 1990s, he was included as part of the English GCSE syllabus which led to a whole new audience discovering his work. This is where Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys first came across him and it was the championing done by Alex and others that led to John being on an almost continuous tour for the last few years.

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Sun 28 Sep 2014 16:00
成人快手 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Wanna Be Yours

  • The Beatles

    Chains

    • Please Please Me.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

  • The Beatles

    Baby's In Black

    • Beatles For Sale.
    • Parlophone.
    • 3.

  • David Bowie

    Be My Wife

    • Sound + Vision.
    • EMI.

  • Clarence Carter

    Looking For A Fox

  • Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan

    What A Wonderful World

  • The Coasters

    Shopping For Clothes

  • Eddie Cochran

    Pink Peg Slacks

  • The Contours

    First I Look At The Purse

  • Bob Crosby

    A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)

  • Dion

    Donna, The Prima Donna (Italian Version)

  • Dr. Horse

    Jack, That Cat Was Clean

  • The Hives

    Born To Cry

  • The Horrors

    I See You

    • Luminous.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Etta James

    Mellow Fellow

  • Elvis Presley

    Blue Suede Shoes

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Lou Rawls

    Street Corner Hustlers Blues Monologue / World of Trouble

  • Charlie Rich

    Mohair Sam

  • Sex Pistols

    Anarchy In The U.K.

  • Ricky Shayne

    Uno Dei Mods

  • Frank Sinatra

    Sunday

  • Nancy Sinatra

    Cuff Links & a Tie Clip

  • Gene Vincent

    Blue Jean Bop

  • Fats Waller

    Got A Bran' New Suit

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Sep 2014 16:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music