“At some point, the Mod look had a short-lived Country Life moment, when the gorgeous mohair sheen of the three-button suit gave way to matte autumnal earth tones. Give it a name: fucking brown.”

— John Cooper Clarke

Source: I Wanna Be Yours (2020), p. 114.

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English performance poet 1951

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