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PLOTTING his path to pop glory in one of his mother’s old school exercise books, the pre-teen Jarvis Cocker decided that his imaginary band would “work its way into the public eye by producing fairly conventional, yet slightly offbeat, pop songs” before beginning “to subvert and restructure both the musicbusiness and music itself”.
Pulp did not quite complete that mission, but Cocker’s grand theorising did take the Sheffield misshapes from the charity shops to the top of the charts, with the singer’s insightful illuminating the
