Jarvis Cocker

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Jarvis Cocker (2012)
Jarvis Cocker (2012)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Jarvis
  UK 37 
silver
silver
11/25/2006 (4 weeks)
Further complications
  UK 19th 05/30/2009 (2 weeks)
  US 155 06/06/2009 (1 week)
Room 29 (with Chilly Gonzales )
  DE 49 March 24, 2017 (1 week)
  AT 43 March 31, 2017 (1 week)
  CH 80 03/26/2017 (1 week)
  UK 88 March 24, 2017 (1 week)
Beyond the Pale (as Jarv Is)
  DE 85 07/24/2020 (1 week)
  AT 28 07/31/2020 (2 weeks)
  CH 55 07/26/2020 (2 weeks)
Singles
Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
  UK 36 01/20/2007 (2 weeks)
Running the World
  UK 48 December 26, 2019 (1 week)

Jarvis Branson Cocker (born September 19, 1963 in Sheffield ) is a British musician . He became known as the front man of the band Pulp .

Career

Jarvis Cocker grew up with his sister Saskia with his mother in Sheffield. The father played briefly in the band of Joe Cocker, also from Sheffield . After this engagement was over, the father left the family to go to Australia, where he posed as Joe Cocker's brother and took over a radio show. The fact that Jarvis Cocker then grew up alone among women has had a strong impact on him, he says.

In the late 1970s, Cocker and some friends formed the band Pulp . In the beginning the line-up changed frequently, the band rarely played twice in a row in exactly the same formation. After some appearances, including in 1981 on the broadcast of the British radio presenter John Peel , Pulp released their first album "It" in 1983, albeit without commercial success.

In the following years Jarvis Cocker got by with part-time jobs and the band played a few concerts at irregular intervals and line-ups. On the second album "Freaks" from 1986 Jarvis was the only remaining founding member of the band.

During the 1996 BRIT Awards ceremony , Cocker protested the performance of Michael Jackson on stage . While Jackson was singing Earth Song , Cocker took the stage, walked into the center and looked into the audience. The entire incident only lasted a minute. Several members of the security staff tried to get him off the stage, but they did not succeed. After the show, Jarvis Cocker was arrested on charges of assault, despite not touching anyone during the entire operation. Michael Jackson's record label Epic publicly attacked Cocker the next day.

Pulp has been on a creative break since the Greatest Hits album released in 2002 . Since then, Cocker has lived partly in Paris to spend time with his son from his marriage to Camille Bidault-Waddington. In 2003, Cocker released an album with his band Relaxed Muscle under the pseudonym Darren Spooner . In the following years he worked as a songwriter for Marianne Faithfull , Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nancy Sinatra .

In the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , Cocker plays the singer of the band performing on the dance ball. The performed titles come from him and are included on the soundtrack album.

In 2006 Jarvis Cocker released his first solo album, which is simply called "Jarvis". The first single was "Running the World". The album was produced by Sam Lockwood and John Watson. The latter helped Cocker write the lyrics.

Jarvis Cocker's second album, Further Complications , was released in 2009 and was produced by Steve Albini .

Cocker will host the "Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service" show on BBC 6.

In 2017 Cocker and the Canadian pianist Chilly Gonzales released the CD Room 29 , a cycle of songs that deals with stories about the Chateau Marmont Hotel and the beginnings of the Hollywood dream factory. Cocker wrote the lyrics, Gonzales the music.

In the same year, Cocker signed a £ 100,000 deal with Penguin Books . The subject of the contract is a book with biographical texts, essays, illustrations and photos, which should be published by the end of 2020.

In 2019 Cocker released the single Must I Evolve? With a new band called "Jarv Is" . .

At the end of the same year, Brexit critics campaigned as part of a grassroots campaign to put a version of the song “Running the World” at the top of the UK Christmas charts. The version that Cocker had recorded together with the Kaiser Quartet , however, only made it to number 48 in the British charts.

Discography

Jarvis Cocker at Rock en Seine 2007
Jarvis Cocker at a concert in 2006

Albums

  • 2003: Heavy Nite With… Relaxed Muscle ( Sanctuary Records )
  • 2006: Jarvis ( Rough Trade )
  • 2009: Further Complications (Rough Trade)
  • 2017: Room 29 (Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales) (Deutsche Grammophon)

Singles

  • 2007: Don't Let Him Waste Your Time (Rough Trade)

Others

  • 2006 with Kid Loco contribution to the Serge-Gainsbourg - tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited: I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going (Original: Je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais)
  • 2006 on his Myspace page he published the track The Cunts Are Still Running the World (later as a hidden track on "Jarvis")
  • 2007 for the album Pocket Symphony by Air he wrote the text for One Hell of a Party and lent the song his voice.

swell

  1. ↑ a b DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ^ Sophie Heawood: Jarvis Cocker: 'I've lived in my head for most of my life'. In: theguardian.com. May 19, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Dallach: Well camouflaged. In: spiegel.de. May 30, 2009, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nick Reilly: Listen to 'Must I Evolve?', The new single from Jarvis Cocker. In: nme.com. May 19, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  6. ^ Daniel Kreps: Jarvis Cocker Shares New Version of 'Running the World' to Aid Christmas Single Campaign. In: Rolling Stone. December 19, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .

literature

  • Owen Heatherley: These Glory Days. An essay on Pulp and Jarvis Cocker , translated by Sylvia Prahl. Edition Tiamat / Verlag Klaus Bittermann, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89320-168-6 .
  • Jarvis Cocker: Mother, Brother Lover - Lyrics , translated by Michael Kerkmann. Berlin Verlag in the Piper Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8270-1157-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cocker, Jarvis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cocker, Jarvis Branson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield