{"id":13870,"date":"2023-11-16T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2024-02-25T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T12:51:04","slug":"good-pop-bad-pop-jarvis-cocker-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/good-pop-bad-pop-jarvis-cocker-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Pop Bad Pop &#8211; Jarvis Cocker (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jarvis Cocker is the leader and singer of Pulp, an English band formed in 1978. The book begins with Cocker&#8217;s desire to tidy up an attic full of bric-a-brac that he has accumulated over the years. This, in fact, serves as a pretext for constructing, object by object, what looks like a first biography and a glimpse into the birth of his creativity. A notebook in which the name of his future band appears for the first time, a pot of Marmite with a metal lid, a white plastic Polo sweets dispenser, a polycotton Gold Star shirt. Quite a few objects that remind me of my childhood. By the end of the book, it&#8217;s 1988 and Pulp still has many years to go. Reading the autobiography of a pop star? I would never have chosen this book, but it was really fun, easy to read and well presented with photos and colour pages. Very entertaining. I&#8217;m glad I met Jarvis Cocker and his band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;We tell ourselves stories based on evidence we glean from the world. We arrange that information in what appears to be a logical order &amp; it becomes a narrative we believe in. It becomes The Truth. These truths can endure for years &amp; years. Often for a whole lifetime. 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