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‘A billion listens? Is that a lot?’ John Cooper Clarke on penning possibly the world’s favourite poem
I Wanna Be Yours, a love poem that rhymes Ford Cortina with vacuum cleaner, has been a school text and a wedding staple. But now, thanks to TikTok and Arctic Monkeys, it has gone spectacularly global. So who was it written for?