Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

£20.00

Bookseller’s Book of the Year 2022:

‘Move over Marie Kondo – Jarvis Cocker is clearing out his loft! Wonderful insights into Jarvis’s coming of age, his creative influences and the origins of Pulp – and told with plenty of his trademark dry wit. This is a brilliantly designed biography unlike any other, that pays tribute to the ephemera we collect and the stories they tell!’   Imogen

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Description

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?

We all have a random collection of the things that made us – photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward questions:

Who do you think you are?

Are clothes important?

Why are there so many pairs of broken glasses up here?

From a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley’s Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, this is the hard evidence of Jarvis’s unique life, Pulp, 20th century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he’d rather forget. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process – writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft.

This is not a life story. It’s a loft story.