Good Pop, Bad Pop : The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker by Jarvis Cocker

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**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 catalog his story and asks 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.

Details

• Format:Hardback 368 pages
• Publisher:Vintage Publishing
• Imprint:Jonathan Cape Ltd
• ISBN:9781787330566
• Published:26 May 2022
• Classifications:United Kingdom, Great Britain, The arts: general issues, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Memoirs
• Readership:General (US: Trade)
• Weight:1030g
• Dimensions:164 x 243 x 39 (mm)
• Pub. Country:United Kingdom
• Country of Origin:GB
• Tariff Codes:49019900
• For sale in: United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France