Pulp

Pulp was formed in 1978 on the initiative of Jarvis Cocker (song and guitar) under the name Arabacus Pulp , then Pulp the following year while the musicians were all still high school students. After a first concert in July 1980 and a demo, several of the members left the band to continue their studies in college. Jarvis Cocker recruited new ones, then Pulp recorded a mini-album at the end of 1982, It , which was released in April 1983. Cocker, disappointed by Pulp's non-success, disbanded the band shortly afterwards and reshaped it shortly afterwards to record various songs, including the single Everybody's Problem (September 1983). Pulp's classie pop is already guessing through Cocker's writing. A Freaks album was released in 1987, recorded in a week, darker and more pessimistic than It . During the 1980s, Jarvis Cocker had an accident falling from a window trying to impress a girl, which, together with Freaks's failure, encouraged him to dissolve Pulp again to go to London to study cinema.
However, shortly afterwards, Pulp reborn from his ashes, with a new line-up and a new album Separations , in the continuity of Freaks , which, following a decision of the label, will not come out. Yet, in 1991, the band released a 12" titled My Legendary Girlfriend, who will know him the success in England, Pulp's first step into the open.
Pulp then signs on Warp Records , which releases Separations , then on Island Records with 3 singles (which can be found on the Intro compilation released at the end of 1993). Pulp delivers two new singles Do You Remember the First Time? and Lipgloss , a success less striking than My Legendary Girlfriend and released in 1994 his first true success, His'N'Hers (No.9 of the Sales in England and nominated for Mercury Music Prize). Jarvis Cocker and his band reached the climax of their career in 1995 with the single Common People, an excellent performance at the Glastonbury Festival and a Mercury Award for the Different Class album where Pulp finally reveals his best face under compositions talking about sex and class differences.
Cocker made him talk about himself by going on stage at the 1996 BRIT Awards, where he protested the presence of Mickael Jackson (accused of paedophilia and then innocent at that time). Pulp's popularity declined at that time, following this incident, but the band released This Is Hardcore in 1998 (while Cocker drowned in his addiction to Cocoa) and then went back into the shadows to the next album, We Love Life (2001). The 3-year period remains unclear, the assumptions go well between period of composition and artistic differences.
In 2002, Pulp left his label while a Best Of Hits came out, and the band played its last concert that year, and then announced an indefinite break. Jarvis Cocker released a first solo album Jarvis in 2006 and plays in Relaxed Muscle, but does not announce a planned return for Pulp.
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