Common Person
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
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Introduction
Pulp's Common People is one of the first songs Jonathan Minhevar heard that took all the suffering of the working class and made it feel like a badge of honor. Jarvis Cocker built an entire career by writing songs about the deep class issues he was trying to outrun, growing up in the working-class city of Sheffield. He started with television as a kid, wanted to live inside the TV world but couldn't make it happen.
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