46 Facts About Jarvis Cocker

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Jarvis Branson Cocker was born on 19 September 1963 and is an English musician and radio presenter.

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Jarvis Cocker was born in Sheffield, he grew up in the Intake area of the city and attended City School.

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Jarvis Cocker wrote a song about being abandoned by his father and working briefly as a butler; in 1998, Cocker and his sister travelled to Australia to meet their father for the first time in nearly 30 years.

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Mac Jarvis Cocker was a radio DJ in Sydney, with Double J in the 1970s and then Triple J in the 1980s.

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Jarvis Cocker founded the band Pulp originally under the name Arabacus Pulp at the age of 15 while he was a pupil at The City School, Sheffield.

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Jarvis Cocker was Pulp's frontman, and part of his trademark image was his glasses, which seemed to "stay magically on his face" no matter what antics he performed.

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Jarvis Cocker is renowned for his wit and observations of the cultural scene.

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Jarvis Cocker was detained and interviewed by the police on suspicion of assault.

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Jarvis Cocker was accompanied by the comedian Bob Mortimer, who was attending the Brit Awards; Mortimer is a former solicitor and represented him in that capacity.

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On 2 July 2009, soon after Jackson's death, Jarvis Cocker appeared as a panellist on the BBC discussion program Question Time.

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In March 2008, Jarvis Cocker made a short tour of Latin America, where he presented a new song called "Girls Like It Too".

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Jarvis Cocker said that he had written "Girls Like It Too" and "The Usual", and hoped to have enough material to record the follow-up to his solo debut album.

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Jarvis Cocker debuted a new song, "Angela", on BBC2's "The Summer Exhibition: A Culture Show Special", on 13 June 2008.

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Jarvis Cocker stayed in room 29 at the hotel during a Pulp tour in 2012.

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In late 2017, Jarvis Cocker formed a new band under the name "Jarv Is".

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On 2 March 2020, Jarvis Cocker announced the band's debut album Beyond the Pale on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 6 show and released the single "House Music All Night Long".

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Jarvis Cocker performed live with The All Seeing I on Top of the Pops, singing "Walk Like a Panther" in place of Tony Christie, who sang on the recorded version.

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Jarvis Cocker re-emerged in 2003 to promote a new album, under the pseudonym "Darren Spooner", for his new band Relaxed Muscle.

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In 2005, Jarvis Cocker co-wrote three tracks on Sheffield-based electronica duo The Lovers' self-titled debut album.

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Jarvis Cocker appeared briefly in the film as lead singer of the band the Weird Sisters.

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In 2006, Jarvis Cocker appeared on albums Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited and Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys.

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Jarvis Cocker's song "Running the World" appeared over the closing credits of the film Children of Men.

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Jarvis Cocker co-wrote lyrics on the Charlotte Gainsbourg album 5:55, with Neil Hannon and members of Air.

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Jarvis Cocker curated the 2007 Meltdown Festival at the South Bank Centre in London, UK.

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In 2008, Jarvis Cocker contributed "Born to Cry", to Tony Christie's album of songs by Sheffield-based songwriters, Made in Sheffield.

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Jarvis Cocker sang vocals on the single "Synchronize" by Discodeine, a French production duo.

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Jarvis Cocker performed the song "I'm Still Here" from Follies in the HBO documentary Six By Sondheim, in a segment directed by Todd Haynes.

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Jarvis Cocker made brief appearances in the music videos for "A Little More for Little You" by Swedish rockers The Hives and "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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On 3 October 1996, Jarvis Cocker co-hosted the Australian Saturday morning programme Recovery with regular co host Jane Gazzo.

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On 12 October 2006, a fictional version of Jarvis Cocker was a lead character in a drama on BBC Radio 2, as part of their "Imagine" competition.

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On 31 December 2008, Jarvis Cocker guest edited the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

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Jarvis Cocker guested as a panellist on BBC's Question Time in July 2009.

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Jarvis Cocker won the Sony DAB Rising Star Award 2010, voted for by listeners, for his BBC Radio 6 Music Show.

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Jarvis Cocker arranged for Iggy Pop to host the Radio 6 Music show in 2014, while he undertook a hiatus that involved Editor-at-Large duties for publisher Faber and Faber.

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In 2015, Jarvis Cocker appeared as part of that year's Proms, presenting the Wireless Nights Prom from the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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In December 2017, Jarvis Cocker presented his last Sunday Service programme for the BBC.

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Jarvis Cocker appears in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as Myron Wagtail, lead singer of the Weird Sisters.

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Jarvis Cocker played himself in the 2007 romantic comedy, The Good Night.

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In June 2011, Jarvis Cocker was chosen as poetry guest editor for The Mays Anthology, a collection of new writing from students at Oxford and Cambridge.

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In 1988, at age 25, Jarvis Cocker took a sabbatical from Pulp to study Fine Art and Film at Saint Martin's School of Art, where he was tutored by Vera Neubauer and Malcolm Le Grice.

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Jarvis Cocker lived in Paris from 2003 with his wife Camille Bidault-Waddington and their son.

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Jarvis Cocker had previously lived in Paris in the early 1990s, writing lyrics for Pulp's breakthrough album His 'n' Hers there, but he never learned to speak French, according to Bidault-Waddington.

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Jarvis Cocker has been an ambassador for the Edinburgh-based charity Scottish Love in Action since 2010.

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Jarvis Cocker has played on the band Everything Is New's debut CD.

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In 2015, Jarvis Cocker was among the signatories of a pledge committing to Artists For Palestine.

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In 2016, Jarvis Cocker voiced his support for Remain in the EU referendum.