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Jarvis Cocker speaks about Michael Jackson on 'Question Time'

Jarvis Cocker speaks about Michael Jackson on 'Question Time'

He appears alongside various politicians on the programme

  • Jul 3, 2009

Jarvis Cocker to take on politicians on 'Question Time'

Singer will be fielding the public's questions on BBC show this Thursday (Jul 2)

Jarvis Cocker's stage invaded at Glastonbury

Plus former Pulp man pays tribute to John Peel during headline slot

Jarvis Cocker, Little Boots, Kooks paint themselves blue for Oxfam

Plus View, Fatboy Slim and Editors get a coat of paint

Jarvis Cocker threatens to cane London Troxy crowd - video

Horrors play support to ex-Pulp man in UK capital

  • Jun 18, 2009

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Jarvis Cocker YouTube Videos

Jarvis Cocker Interrupts Michael Jackson's Earth Song 1996

Jarvis Cocker Interrupts Michael Jackson's Earth Song 1996 (01:11)

*Taken From Wiki* Cocker invaded the stage at the 1996 BRIT Awards in a spur of the moment protest against Michael Jackson's performance. Jackson performed surrounded by children and a rabbi, while making...

Jarvis Cocker - "Angela"

Jarvis Cocker - "Angela" (03:53)

Here is the new video from Jarvis Cocker "Angela". Buy his latest album Further Complications here: www.beggarsgroupusa.com

Jarvis - Dont Let Him Waste Your Time

Jarvis - Dont Let Him Waste Your Time (04:04)

new single from the great emotional singer. pinkgrease.it ... jarvis pulp brit

Jarvis Cocker - "Running the World"

Jarvis Cocker - "Running the World" (05:38)

From "Jarvis" - Coming Out USA April 3rd 2007 www.myspace.com/jarvspace

Jarvis Cocker - Running The World

Jarvis Cocker - Running The World (05:41)

Jarvis Cocker - Running The World Video Visit www.the-dish.co.uk to discuss this video

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Jarvis Cocker Reviews

Album review: Jarvis Cocker

Album review: Jarvis Cocker

Further Complications

Jarvis Cocker

Sheffield's favourite son helps the nation's favourite label turn 30. Sheffield (November 25)

Jarvis

Fat Children

  • Jul 12, 2007

Jarvis: Shockwaves NME Awards Shows, Astoria, London: Saturday, February 17

No Pulp hits, but stand-up, balloons and Black Sabbath covers galore

  • Mar 5, 2007

Shockwaves NME Awards Show: Jarvis Cocker, Astoria Saturday Feb 17

He's got it covered

  • Feb 18, 2007

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Jarvis Cocker Biography

b. 19 September 1963, Intake, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The guiding force behind 90s Britpop stars Pulp and one of the most idiosyncratic characters to emerge from the UK music scene in the late twentieth century. Cocker formed Pulp in the late 70s while still at school, but had to wait nearly 15 years before he enjoyed the chart success of which he had long dreamt. The albums Different Class (1995) and This Is Hardcore (1998) revealed Cocker as one of the most gifted lyricists of his generation, while a stream of superb proto-glam pop tunes helped push the band to the top of the UK charts.

Pulp was put on hiatus following the release of a 2001 greatest hits album that was roundly ignored by a record buying public that had snapped up the band's albums in the mid-90s. Cocker, who had been a prominent fixture in the UK media during this period, retreated from view as he decamped to Paris, France, with his wife and young son. His low-key return in 2003 saw him adopting the pseudonym Darren Spooner in the electro pop duo Relaxed Muscle. Cocker's identity was only revealed after a number of live gigs, and he saw the project through to the end with the release of an enjoyable album (A Heavy Night With ").

Cocker remained busy on the sidelines during the mid-00s, contributing vocals and co-writing on albums by Richard X, Marianne Faithfull, Nancy Sinatra, the Lovers and Charlotte Gainsbourg. He also featured on the soundtrack to Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire and made a cameo appearance in the movie. He launched his solo career at the end of 2006 with Jarvis. This relentlessly downbeat album confused a lot of critics and fans, with the sparky indie pop of Pulp lost in a morass of sub-glam dirges and bitter non-sequiturs.

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Jarvis Cocker Discography

Jarvis Cocker albums.

  • Jarvis - 2006 (Rough Trade)

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