In praise of … Jarvis Cocker | Editorial

The former Pulp frontman has joined the ranks of David Attenborough and Peter Ustinov – and become a family favouriteLast week, Jarvis Cocker finally took the professional summit that has been his for the taking for well over a decade: he became a national treasure. There may be people who have never even heard a Cocker lyric (although they must live far outside the land of pop radio). But in narrating Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf at the Royal Festival Hall last week, the former Pulp frontma...

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