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Fri 05 May 2009A different class
His unpredictability has always been part of his appeal, now Jarvis Cocker is hoping to charm the world with his most unpredictable album yet. The former Pulp frontman tells BRIAN BOYDabout turning his back on fame, his band and Michael Jackson
JARVIS COCKER has missed his Eurostar train connection from Paris (where he now lives) to London, so he rings to rearrange the interview location. “I’ll be sitting outside a cafe in St Pancras International Train Station,” he says on the phone in his lugubrious flat-vowelled Yorkshire accent. He then goes on to describe what he looks like, until I butt in and reassure him that, like most of the Western World of a certain age, I won’t have any difficulty picking him out in a crowd.
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