Pulp, Common People, and the Class Politics of Sheffield
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Pulp, Common People, and the Class Politics of Sheffield
Common People is the best song about class in British pop music. Jarvis Cocker wrote it from a specific Sheffield perspective - Intake, the Art School, the council…
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