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Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

Common Person

Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

Pineapple Street Studios

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What happens when your wildest dreams become a reality? This week Jonathan talks with one of his teenage heroes, Jarvis Cocker of the band Pulp, about how fantasy drove his journey from working-class kid to famous pop star. And how he funneled all of his class frustration into the anthem “Common People.” Jarvis is currently on tour with Pulp, you can find more information at https://linktr.ee/welovepulp. His book is Good Pop, Bad Pop. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I used to go out dancing every Thursday night.

0:59.0

This was decades ago.

1:00.0

I must have been about 20 at the time.

1:02.0

My friends and I would drive out to this club in West

1:04.8

Hollywood that was all 60s soul music and Britpop, this music that was big in the UK

1:10.2

at the time. There was a whole scene full of people who were trying to escape, people who

1:16.6

were pretending to be somewhere else or someone else. Some guys wore mod suits and parkas on the dance floor, even though it was 80 degrees outside.

1:27.0

At the time, I was feeling really stuck.

1:30.0

I was still working the same job I'd had in high school at a movie theater, and I was living

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