Jarvis Cocker – författare

The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.'It's real gold... its storytelling first class' Sunday TimesWhat 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.This is not a life story. It's a loft story.'Nostalgic, playful and beautifully designed' Daily Mail'Brilliant...lurid, entertaining' Daily Telegraph'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian* A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Uncut *

Jarvis Cocker is widely regarded as one of the most original and memorable lyricists and performers of the last three decades. Here, for the first time, is a selection of sixty-six lyrics, presented with commentary and an introduction by the man himself.In this volume, readers (and Pulp fans) will find such classic Jarvis lyrics as 'Common People', 'Disco 2000', 'Babies', 'This is Hardcore' and 'Do You Remember the First Time?' The selection, assembled by the author, reveals a sensibility that is unmistakeably Jarvis: a sometimes visceral, sometimes everyday take on love, relationships and the things we do to each other when the lights get low.Mother, Brother, Lover takes the reader on a thirty-year tour into the life, art and preoccupations of one of the great British artists of the late twentieth century. Shocking, sharp, clever and funny, it is a beautiful collection of lyrics and commentary.

The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.'It's real gold... its storytelling first class' Sunday TimesWhat 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.This is not a life story. It's a loft story.'Nostalgic, playful and beautifully designed' Daily Mail'Brilliant...lurid, entertaining' Daily Telegraph'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian* A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Uncut *

Wir alle haben irgendwo im letzten Winkel unserer Wohnung eine durch den Zufall kuratierte Sammlung von Gegenständen, von denen wir uns, willentlich oder nicht, nie getrennt haben. Vielleicht sind gerade sie es, die die ehrliche Geschichte über unser Leben erzählen.Als Jarvis Cocker sich daran macht, seinen Dachboden aufzuräumen, stößt er auf ein kaum zu überschauendes Durcheinander von Gegenständen, die alle mit einem Moment seines Lebens verknüpft sind, und die merkwürdige Fragen aufwerfen: Wer glaubst du, zu sein? Was bedeutet dir Kleidung? Und wieso liegen hier oben so viele kaputte Brillen?Fotos, Eintrittskarten, ein orange-grünes Polyesterhemd, halbvolle Kaugummiverpackungen, alte Magazine und angefangene Notizbücher – Jarvis beginnt zu sortieren. Und er beginnt, sich zu erinnern. An eine Jugend im Sheffield der 70er, den naiven Traum, Popstar zu werden, an die Schule und an Jobs, und an eine Erfolgsgeschichte, die ihn zu einem stilbildenden Musiker der goldenen Britpop-Ära machen wird.Das Ergebnis dieser literarischen Inventur ist eine anrührende, unterhaltsame und fesselnde Geschichte der Popkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts und die Betrachtung eines einzigartigen Lebens, seiner Glanzpunkte und der Momente, die man lieber auf dem Dachboden vergessen hätte.