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Stephen Dalton, The Times, 1 April 2012

FOR ALL our faults, it says something great about this nation that Jarvis Cocker remains the best-loved survivor of the Britpop boom, a man so genetically unsuited to rock stardom he could only ever approach it through dense layers of self-mocking irony. 

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