Jarvis Cocker is repentant of the stunt with Michael Jackson from ’96

Jarvis Cocker of the Pulp He admitted that “life became dark” after her notorious “stunt” to the Brit with Michael Jackson.

Let’s retrace the facts. It was February 19, 1996 and the ARCLS Court Exhibition Center in London was staged the 16th edition of the Brit Awardsthe annual award ceremony of pop music in the United Kingdom. On stage he was performing Michael Jackson Which sang his last success “Earth Song”, in a Christological guise and surrounded by children and a rabbi.

During the show cocker, obviously unwanted guest, he went on stage as a sign of protest for that performance in which he saw the role of the king of pop as “a sort of figure similar to Christ with the power to heal”.

The frontman of the Pulp was reached, according to the accusations, the trousers were calmed off showing the Deretano to those present. Cocker was arrested and detained by the police for suspected aggression, before being released without accusations.

The gesture was criticized by most of the press, but not all, but to take sides explicit with the English artist there was Noel Gallagher Which, in line with the Melody Maker magazine, proposed to appoint Jarvis to Baronetto for the gesture.

After many years, in a new recent interview in Mojo, Cocker has rethought the accident, saying: “Initially, the fame came in a negative way, with unfounded accusations of inappropriate behavior, such as the alleged drag of children from the stage and the exposure of the naked butt. These accusations have attracted attention to me, transforming me into a public figure, but not in the way I wished. Desire to become famous, I found myself having to face a type of notoriety that did not reflect my artistic value and that led me to a feeling of overload and stress.
On the subject Jarvis Cocker had already expressed himself in a 2020 interview with the New York Times. At the time he had declared that “the accident changed my life forever, because of the consequences”, but that Thanks to David Bowie He saved himself from a legal point of view.

After already reminding the New York Times the consequences of his action in the interview said: “There was the accusation of having threw some guys down from the stage. They had arrested me. The only video that had been released was that of a closed circuit camera, but it was not seen what was going on. That year David Bowie was receiving a career prize and had his television troupe. After two days, they released the movie. And the accusations fell immediately.

I Pulp They announced the new album “More” Outgoing on June 6th for Rough Trade Records.