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Jarvis Cocker has admitted the identity of the 'loaded' student he wrote about in his band Pulp's 1995 hit Common People is a complete 'mystery'.
The singer, 58, famously told the story of how a wealthy girl 'came from Greece with a thirst for knowledge' and 'studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College' in the track.
Making the confession on Radio 4's This Cultural Life, he said: 'We went to the pub and she just came out with that she wanted to live in Hackney with common people.
You what? Jarvis Cocker has admitted the identity of the 'loaded' student he wrote about in his band Pulp's 1995 hit Common People is a complete 'mystery' (pictured in May 2022)
'In 2011 we played at St Martin's and someone showed me a picture on their phone and said, "Is that the girl you wrote the song about?" I went,
