When Jarvis Cocker of the Pulp disturbed Michael Jackson on stage

After a year of great success For pulps, united by simplification to the Britpop wheelchair despite the fact that they were not a more or less recent band such as Blur and Oasis, February 19, 1996 Jarvis Cocker and associates were among the protagonists to Brit Awards With four nominations: “Best Album”, “Best Group”, “Best Single” and “Best Video”. In the end, the group returned home empty -handed, but still made more news than the Oasis – who won three prizes. The reason was for Cocker’s raid on stage during Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” performance. During the performance of the king of pop, surrounded by very young people and with images of children projected on the screen, the Pulp frontman broke into the stage,

he shake the back and ended up removing a jerk with his hand. Everything lasted very little, because Jarvis Cocker was quickly removed from security, but it was still outside A first page case: “He’s off his cocker”, “is out of Cocker”, screamed the title of the British “The Sun”, the morning after the 1996 Brit Awards, the most important evening of the UK music calendar. That year, the Brit organizers had specifically created a prize, baptized “Artist of a Generation“,” Artist of a generation “, to convince Jackson to participate in the ceremony, who was held at the Aarls Court Exhibition Center, marking his first television appearance in the UK after twenty years. The pulps were also in the lineup that evening (expected to play” Sorted for and’s & Wizz “). After the incident, about the performance of Michael Jackson, proposed two years after the two years after the years after the years after the accusations of abuses moved by the adolescent family Jordan Chandler, Cocker admitted to having found the performance “extremely in bad taste”. So, also driven by his companions and alcohol, the Pulp frontman decided to stage a lonely protestclimbing on stage during that Messianic Pantomime of Jackson, shaking the butt. Because of this, Jarvis Cocker was arrested and accused of having attacked the children on stage together with the king of pop. All the accusations were subsequently withdrawnbut the accident made cocker a name known in all British homesfor the wrong reasons.

The episode was Recently remembered by Jarvis Cocker himself In an exclusive interview for “Mojo” on the occasion of the release of the new pulp album, “More”, their first study work twenty -four years after “We Love Life”. As reported by the popular British music magazine of music, the keyboardist of the band Candida Doyle said that Cocker had witnessed Jackson’s tests the day before calling her “horrenda”. That evening, his action created a mess between the group and Doyle to Ian Harrison of “Mojo” then revealed: “We have never talked about it again. It is an almost taboo topic“.

Second cocker, even if formal accusations were not presented, It was that event that precipitated everything “in the bizarre”.
“At the beginning it seemed seriously: they accused me of pushing children off the stage and of showing the butt, things that were not true. After that, everyone knew who I was. I had always wanted to be famous, but you cannot decide the level of notoriety you will getand that was a total overexposure.

It was not for music, it was for something completely out of my character, “said the singer to” Mojo “:”.It was for what things were really difficult to managebecause I just couldn’t get out of it anymore. So yes, life became dark. “He added:” That experience pushed me into a space from which I started a long time to go out – more than ten years, surely. But I did it, so I can’t complain. “

A man who supported Cocker’s protest was Noel Gallagher: “Jarvis is a star!” He declared the main author of the Oasis to the magazine “Musician” later: “People found him shocking. But it is not that he broke his head with a baseball bat – which I would have done, if I had gone up on stage”.