John Cooper Clarke: `I didn´t want to quit heroin´
(The Guardian Culture News)

While conceding the drug was `fabulous the first time´, the veteran performer has one overwhelming message: don´t do itJohn Cooper Clarke, the poet and performer who became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s, has said he didn´t want to quit taking heroin and weaned himself off the drug for the sake of society rather than for his own health.Speaking on BBC Radio 4´s Desert Island Discs, Clarke recalled the addiction which dominated much of his life in the 1980s, when he was living in a flat in Brixton, south London, with Nico, the late singer and muse of the Velvet Underground. Continue reading...