Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cockeris an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor, radio presenter and music video director. He is known for being the frontman of the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has led a successful solo career, and presents a BBC Radio 6 Music show called Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth19 September 1963
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We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.
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Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
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When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
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Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
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Part of what tonight is about is to keep the spirit of John Peel alive. To seek out new music and champion new talent.
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My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
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Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.
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I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
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I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.
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Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.
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You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.
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There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.