Alan Moore - Poetry - Old Gangsters Never Die - BBC Maestro

[@MrFForger]

You know this isn't a true story because Alan Moore has never been 23 years old: he just materialised into our world one day, full wizard beard and fiery eyes, to regale us with tales we did not know we needed.

[@ethan288]

I think he's one of the missing Blue wizards for Fellowship of the Rings.

[@briancox9357]

Alan Moore lives quite near me in Northampton. I've seen him quite few times. He's friends with the father of a friend of mine. Lovely guy and hugely intelligent and talented.

[@UltraGaivalas]

are you that smiley physicist with the funny accent?

[@radicalpaddyo]

Very excited he's finally going to reveal his inspiration behind "Watchmen Babies"

[@Udgrasil13]

What is your favorite Watchmen Baby?

[@thomaswest4033]

@@Udgrasil13 lil Rosie, he's so nutty!

[@gabzy3264]

Which of the babies is your favorite?

[@tobybartels8426]

Watchmen Babies is nice and all, but nothing beats the classic Saturday-morning cartoon.

[@jayartist_]

I named my son after your creation, Mr. Moore. Today the little Gangsta Rap is already a man of whom I am very proud.

[@jotagroovy7479]

SOKJIOSJSIOKJS im dying

[@weeblelehmann466]

If you actually named your kid Gangsta Rap?..... THAT'S pretty gangsta.

[@jayartist_]

@@weeblelehmann466 That was what my mother in law said back then

[@menwithven2862]

@@jayartist_ have you seen these rap singers they have these days

[@FredMaverik]

what

[@CitizenDuarte]

Mr Moore has such a hypnotic voice. He could commentate on something like the science of paint drying and I would probably be invested in it lol

[@Edo_Marinus]

He’s released a number of wonderful spoken-word recordings, including ‘Angel Passage’, ‘Snakes and Ladders’, and ‘The Highbury Working’. Worth seeking out, IMHO.

[@El_Crazyknight]

To be honest the actual science of paint drying should be very interesting but I get what you mean lol

[@bubulle4697]

You see, English is not my first language, and while I can read it and speak it with relative ease, this poem was far too complex and too quickly told for me to understand fully what was going on. And yet, I was completely hypnotized by it, at a certain point I even forgot to try to understand it. Absolutely captivating, that must be the rhythm he was talking about before, right ? It seems you don’t need to understand it to feel it, brilliant

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

I think you understood it better than most. I'm a native speaker myself and didn't know enough of the context behind the poem to know what it was about until I saw the poem told again in the form of a comic, but Moore's recital still drew me in.

[@dankwoodburning]

Yes I have the same experience. I even started to visualise without catching everything

[@henocksherlock3340]

typical magician. Their things are all not non-sense, albeit the very different sort of implicit you've never experienced prior

[@martinvanburen4578]

you are a liar ....

[@xectilus5530]

A magician in the truest sense of the word.

[@happymaskedguy1943]

As an inspiring poet I have to say I'm amazed - I didn't realise Moore wrote poetry, and certainly wouldn't have expected such rich and accomplished work. Now I have to get into his work. I'm considering this course. Amazing.

[@hookedonjuneau6313]

Reminds me of another Allen's poem, Howl.

[@metallisika2745]

I hate to do this, but do you perhaps mean 'aspiring'?

[@barryegan187]

I assure you he is one of the literary “greats” of our time. His work in the media of comics may have soured critics against him, which is problematic in and of itself, but the man can WRITE.

[@vichobocho_archivo]

@@metallisika2745 No he is just an inspiring poet. he loves to inspire people

[@rawalshadab3812]

There's a very poetic quality to most of his work on Swamp Thing, so I'm not surprised he does poetry.

[@TheRexbassist]

Mr Moore, your work is a font of inspiration and wisdom that has always pushed the boundaries of my imagination and understanding. Much love

[@turinturambar6795]

im surprised he was able to keep a straight face when he said he invented gangster rap

[@jasondavidvalenciamarin4415]

He showed a little smile though

[@GT-wo2oj]

He didn't keep a straight face

[@moley2317]

one of the benefits of a beard that voluminous is that it often lends an additional layer to your poker face

[@stanleysmooth]

He didn't keep a straight face, you just can't tell because he's got a beard the size of Wisconsin lol

[@Vicariousleighilive..]

I came here to write , he couldn’t keep a straight face when he said he invented gangster rap

[@lashropa]

Unspeakably moving. So good to see you here I'm at a loss for words. Thank you Alan. For everything you've ever done. Thank you BBC. I can't think of anything else to say other than: I'll never forget it; this. 😇

[@RoxiVazz]

An author, every writer should salute.

[@user_user1337]

very calming voice.

[@rafaelfernandez8138]

Hypnotic, from the beginning to far beyond the end ... Still can hear the silences of his voice spreading out on my unconsciousness...I will come back again and again through the years to feed my very soul with his music...until I will hear all but words...thank you M. Moore.

[@ThomasHerlofsen]

I love this man.

[@MythopoeicNavid]

Same!

[@oxeqdoidera]

We all do

[@MultiSoulless]

First heard Moore recalling and reciting this on Scroobius Pip's podcast. Amazing.

[@mrkultra1655]

That there is real genius level writing. WAY beyond anything I could ever possibly come up with.

[@theroverart]

I hope someone takes this and mixes it with a sick beat

[@zatoichiMiyamoto]

Nujabes, J Dilla and MFDoom Will from the skies, cause old gangsters never die

[@elmachomenoch]

@@zatoichiMiyamoto Damn, you know what's up, chief, mad respect

[@alastorcorvus]

Look up for Sinister Ducks, the band where Alan Moore sung the original song. It's more jazz than rap, but the beat is sick too.

[@laricamistica]

Such a beautiful reading and reintegration with his own work. No one can't ever say this wasn't perfect riding. And that it's because he believes that.

[@BrundleFly868]

Mesmerising... Brilliant.

[@jestermorales03]

Big fan Mr Moore!

[@midianpoet]

Amazing ! Thanks for that, Alan! You say - 'The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind' ...yes, and YOUR mind is special place, full of gods ! We worship them, because they are UNIQUE ! Your gods .... are Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemens!

[@Bamazon1990]

I got chills

[@dirtpoorchris]

The "Walking around like stars torn down into grounded constellations" was pretty sweet

[@gonzaloaravena7347]

Loved every minute of it

[@Harakido]

Mr Moore, you are my idol, i want to be like you but i have only 13 years and i dont know how.Thanks for everything

[@MythopoeicNavid]

You try and you damn well never let go of that writing habit!

[@Harakido]

@@MythopoeicNavid thanks

[@arca5751]

It's a damn good idol to have my guy! Take care, it's easy to give up on things such as reading and wrting nowadays (I've done it myself). Hope you find a way to keep your dreams and passions alive !

[@Harakido]

@@arca5751 thanks

[@jacovawernett3077]

Do keep writing. Sometimes you can even use the cut up method. Cut out words, toss them in the air and write what you pick up. You will write a great poem. You can call it. The Universe helped me write it. Lchaim.

[@Joao-ql7df]

My brother , old gangsters never die! I love you! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@carlosaromero5111]

Alan Moore is my hero im going to study hard

[@Joao-ql7df]

Genius Alan Moore ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@cosmosofinfinity]

Powerful delivery

[@Maxiturri]

Impresionante!!!! No solo el poema, el sonido de su voz y la cadencia!!! Increíble!!!!!

[@AvidCat5000]

Loved it. Heard some deep Ginsburg feels. Word.

[@maurochavez373]

vincent price talk through the Alan Moore amazing

[@NeterRafi77]

My favorite 3 of him: league of extraordinary gentlemen, v for vendetta and top 10.

[@topnotch4564]

Wonderful Poetry.

[@MisterSinister47]

That was dope 🔥

[@Leonard00000000]

He's vibing to a funky imaginary beat

[@MikesGlitch]

Brilliant

[@giorgiogirardi4661]

Alan Moore is always right

[@SQIRLDARKKON]

His conclusions are often wrong by or extreme, however the questions he asks and his critiques / analytical abilities are completely unparalleled.

[@zackspaulding]

Brilliant piece👏 and available on 7" from 1982.😉

[@ryanspengler4877]

I'm yet to see an obituary for "Old Gangsters," and I look every day. Nicely called, Mr. Moore... 🍻

[@CharlotteTaylorr]

amazing

[@lukasfil]

Whend did you last hear someone actually make a long, deliberate pauses when reading out loud to such a captivating effect?

[@Fatdogrecords]

That was awesome

[@taylorius]

Wow, that's really very, very good.

[@MatthewNorsa]

This is the man at the end of the universe.

[@juansamudio1171]

I’m trying to so hard to understand but I don’t understand a word he’s saying but it’s so beautiful

[@kingrainbow5432]

Seeing him as he looks into the camera assures me I'd be too nervous to speak in his presence

[@dedfoker]

BBC take my money!!!!!!!

[@PuripuriDrawings]

Is someone as overwhelmed with this video as me? I thought I didn't liked poetry, I just clicked because Alan Moore, but I'm crying and I don't understand a sh1t

[@Pensadordosceus]

Always great to see you lecture, noble sir

[@gonzalolambert1605]

Agradecería mucho subtítulos en español...gracias Alan y BBC

[@CagaleraRecords]

Haber estudiado

[@gonzalolambert1605]

Disculpame, estoy intentando hacer una petición al responsable del vídeo. Gracias.

[@CagaleraRecords]

@@gonzalolambert1605 Era una pequeña chanza, hombre. De todas formas el señor Moore dice básicamente que en este poema lo que prima es el ritmo más que las metáforas, puedes disfrutar de él en parte aunque no lo entiendas ✌🏻

[@gonzalolambert1605]

@@CagaleraRecords Sigo a Moore no porque hable inglés, si no porque habla el lenguaje del arte en toda su magnificencia. Lo sigo además porque es un tipo serio que trata de aportar algo de magia a un mundo tan lleno de vacío (valga el oxímoron). Vi el video, vi sus expresiones, porque puedo ver ese lenguaje que se manifiesta en el cuerpo, en el tono de voz, y en algunas palabras puntuales...el resto son conectores. Sin embargo, quisiera leer de corrido lo que expresa, con subtítulos. Eso nada más.

[@alastorcorvus]

@@gonzalolambert1605 yo te lo traduzco, manda dm.

[@Tosh.31]

Kool Herc,Afrikan Bambata, Alan Moore

[@mikearrani3299]

Knowing he wrote this at 23, while I'm 27 and still have nothing that could even come close, makes me wanna give up and bury myself alive.

[@MythopoeicNavid]

But Old Poets Never Die.

[@lagarvikmedia]

"Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself"

[@mikearrani3299]

@@lagarvikmedia it's not jealousy, it's insecurity.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Your mind that curses it's lack of poetry is already a greater work of art than any man can fashion. It's so artful, how it's done is not only stranger than we suppose, it's stranger than _can_ be supposed.

[@mikearrani3299]

@@amanofnoreputation2164 with so much wisdom, I am surprised you are a man of no reputation.

[@jamesllewellynevans9733]

Someone throw a beat under this

[@jefffudesco9364]

Moore has a beat under his Mandrigal Manifesto poem he dropped b4 Brexit.

[@SQIRLDARKKON]

@@jefffudesco9364 link please???

[@jefffudesco9364]

@@SQIRLDARKKON kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIOvnWCZl5ehqqs

[@Jamesharveycomics]

Listen to this with the instrumental from Gazillion Ear by MF DOOM

[@diegobermudez8102]

You're on to something, G. His flow goes well with the beat. He did say that he focused on it having rhythm.

[@diegobermudez8102]

I gotta ask. What made you think of this song in particular? Good call.

[@Jamesharveycomics]

@@diegobermudez8102 I’ve just been listening to that album a lot lately! And also, if MF DOOM can sample Charles Bukowski then perhaps something like this could have worked, too

[@FringeSpectre]

I had no idea that NWA owed so much to Alan Moore...

[@AlirezaGh-li5rd]

🔥🔥

[@davedogge2280]

good to see him again. He invented 'gangsta rap' .. lol Dr. Dre was after all in The ExtraordinaryLeague of Gentlemen.

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

1:16 poem begins

[@baedeckerbaedecker9664]

"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd...." -Richard II, III,ii

[@tonyjp83]

Too bad we outside the UK cannot buy his course!

[@BBCMaestro]

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[@dddaaa6965]

yes it's a shame! I would have bought it...

[@plcthelegacy4131]

@@BBCMaestro Not all Heroes wear capes :)

[@MythopoeicNavid]

@@BBCMaestro not in Bangladesh

[@changowowowoezzy9617]

What a god

[@FromEarthfornow]

He might look like a Weatherspoon customer but this man knows his stuff

[@nathanielfishburn9676]

"Win oi enventid gangsturr rap"

[@dennisjensen2458]

This fabulous poem was enhanced with music and a cartoon on a 1983 single by the concept band The Sinister Ducks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWPUl3WCl9l2p6c

[@niriop]

"...their halos black against the night..." Fuck me that's good.

[@Demspake]

🤯

[@oldmanlogan9616]

R o y t i n g

[@idklol4197]

the goat wrote that at 23

[@caltamoio6705]

Por favor legendas em português e castelhano.

[@MythopoeicNavid]

Today I learned that Alan Moore stole my Solomon Grundy script 18 years before I was born.

[@diegobermudez8102]

Do tell.

[@willianjohnam7350]

I'm always surprised when Alan Moore makes an appearence.

[@AlexVostox]

*Pretty sure that Alan Moore took a charity side job as Santa Claus impersonator at children hospital every Christmas.*

[@darkservantofheaven]

or Cosplays as Gandalf

[@elmaquiavelico5709]

@@darkservantofheaven Or cosplays as Rasputin

[@MythopoeicNavid]

@@darkservantofheaven Gandalf cosplays as him.

[@MythopoeicNavid]

Here in Bangladesh he gets confused with Rabindranath Tagore and that's probably the biggest literary compliment we can give him.

[@yabbalulu]

[@zero15388]

✌️👌🙌

[@Joao-ql7df]

MEU AMIGO ALAN MOORE ASSISTAM BRASILEIROS ASSISTAM ! ENTENDAM!

[@MauricioLeal1]

somebody put a dj DRAMA beat on this!

[@cleftturnip7774]

well it wasn't in 4/4

[@dacamosa]

I'm haunted!

[@fallios]

Please more Marco videos that's what are all here for.

[@sylwiagaazka2628]

Damn, 23-year old Alan Moore was a massive edgelord. :D

[@erik_arman]

He’s always been. Much of his work is taking something designed to wring pennies out of children (superheroes) and reimagining them as extremely dark and violent. His Miracleman series is kind of the equivalent of making a dark and gritty reimagining of Paw Patrol.

[@thelordkk512]

He made killing joke and watchmen

[@boppob1343]

@@thelordkk512 yeah he really regrets that killing joke lol

[@thelordkk512]

@@boppob1343 nah it's a classic... I love that era of Batman comics

[@MythopoeicNavid]

@@erik_arman Imagery that found its way trickled down into Snyder's Man of Steel and other stuff. His reimaginings have become part of the collective imagination now.

[@debajyotiguha]

sounds very much like the inspiration behind Gangsta's Paradise....

[@AhmadDDaniels]

Bars

[@Reaper8989]

Can we put a beat on this please?

[@naka-YAYA-plaza]

EMINEM JUST ENTERED THE CHAT..

[@Tien1610]

Snake God >>> Rap god

[@dielawn87]

Tom Waits would crush this

[@djstantsia7905]

The day i will understand the English language without cc, the same day i'll say i speak it. 40+ years in the country and still struggling.

[@alastorcorvus]

What's your native language? Maybe I can provide a translation

[@djstantsia7905]

@@alastorcorvus Sorry, i didnt make myself clear enough, Im talking about proper English

[@javiervalencia4699]

that poem needs some Westside Gunn adlibs

[@Joao-ql7df]

THE LION OF JUDAH ☀️

[@ForLorNVuLgaR]

The master at work! $90 tho…

[@OldSkoolUncleChris]

Why has nobody has ever seen him and Jess Phillips in the same room together ?

[@noonecomics]

can somebody please make a beat and rap these lyrics in the style of Tupac or Dr. Dre, thank you!

[@X21XXI]

He needs a Nicki Minaj feature asap!

[@Gemelli_ar]

I play poker... what the hell is a Ace of flames? Bruh....😂

[@jehormaeche]

Holly Sh!

[@thaxtonwaters8561]

Well he does remind you of Rick Rubin.🤔

[@Aeauk]

Damn there is something this man can make wrong?

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Your 'title card' spells 'gangstas', and yet both the title description and blurb spell 'gangsters'. One (or two) HAVE, by simple logic, to be wrong. It may well be a simple oversight, but it's quite a damning example of how much you care about content creators and the works they produce.

[@jhesustribuzi4279]

Mix this with some Johnny Marr's riffs and we have a new Smiths song

[@thedeadd.c.207]

Fuck, man. You're right.