Common People: Pulp's 'rubbish' riff that became a Britpop anthem

Common People: Pulp's 'rubbish' riff that became a Britpop anthem

Thirty years after its release, what made Pulp's Common People one of Britpop's defining anthems.

Pop Classics #59: Pulp - Common People - God Is In The TV

Released on this day in May of 1995,  Pulp‘s imperious ‘Common People’ was a seminal single of the 90s, lifted from their album Different Class, a somewhat exaggerated account of Jarvis Cocker’s time with a girl in St Martin’s college gave him a platform to vocalise his bristling attack on upper-middle class attempts to slum it with the proles. (“I said ‘Pretend you got no money’ – And she just laughed and said ‘Oh, you’re so funny.’ I said ‘Yea…