Whether Jarvis Cocker was singing about Danae Stratou is completely not the pointIt’s become a matter of speculation that the rich female student patronising Jarvis Cocker in Pulp’s Common People might be Danae Stratou, wife of Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Stratou ticks the boxes – she comes from Greece, from a wealthy background, and studied at Central St Martin’s School of Art around the same time that Jarvis Cocker was there. So is it Stratou, or is it an urban myth? Who cares? At best it’s a Trivial Pursuit question. In all the important ways, it’s irrelevant.First, respect to Cocker and Pulp for declining to name the student for the past two decades. How many of us would relish having our youthful alcohol-sodden guff coming back to haunt us? Continue reading...
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