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Jarvis Cocker, également surnommé Darren Spooner, est un chanteur, musicien, animateur de radio britannique, né le 19 septembre 1963, à Sheffield en Angleterre, et leader du groupe britpop Pulp.

En 2006, il a sorti un album solo, intitulé tout simplement Jarvis. Durant sa carrière, il a collaboré avec de nombreux artistes dont Nancy Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Gainsbourg, ou encore Feist et fait quelques apparitions au cinéma. En 2017, il sort l'album intimiste Room 29 avec Chilly Gonzales, dont la thématique est axée sur l'histoire du Château Marmont. Sur la station de radio BBC Radio 6 Music, il anime les dimanches après-midi l'émission « Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service».

Connu pour ses excentricités et ses textes caustiques, il est une figure emblématique de la génération britpop,. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. septembre 1963
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Jarvis Cocker: Citations en anglais

“There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.”

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Interview with The Guardian http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/guardian99.html (1999)

“I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.”

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Interview with The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/jarvis-cocker-gordon-brown-is-crushingly-dull-id-advocate-a-revolution-1680098.html (2009)

“Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.”

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Interview with The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/27/jarvis-cocker-pulp-readers-questions (2011)

“Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.”

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Interview with The Big Issue magazine (2006)

“Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.”

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Talking about his father and family relationships in South Bank Show (2007)

“Whilst something is unknown, it could be anything. It could be the worst thing ever and usually when something starts to happen. You realise it’s not so bad.”

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Playing at Bluedot Festival (2019)