"Beasley Street" is a poem by the English poet John Cooper Clarke.
Dealing with poverty in inner-city Salford, Cooper Clarke has said that the poem was inspired by Camp Street in Lower Broughton.
[2][citation needed] A recitation of the poem appears on Cooper Clarke's 1980 album Snap, Crackle & Bop.
When it was released, BBC radio stations censored the line "Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies/ In a box on Beasley Street.
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