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Pulp

Andy Gill, Q, May 1994

POISED ON the brink of widespread success after nearly 14 years as linchpin of Sheffield glum-rock combo Pulp, Jarvis Cocker muses upon the long and tortuous route to public acceptance which has faced his group – together since schooldays – and which necessitated his departure from the one-time Steel City.

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