- Published: 15 June 2022
- ISBN: 9781787330566
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $48.00
Good Pop, Bad Pop
The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker
- Published: 15 June 2022
- ISBN: 9781787330566
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $48.00
Incredibly entertaining...a trip through the things that have made him who he is.
Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard, *Books to Look Out For 2022*
Poignant in a subtle, understated way; Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time for the age of the Ford Cortina... This book is about a very normal childhood and the everyday detritus it left behind. Common people indeed.
Will Hodgkinson, The Times
Brilliant... accessible, pithy, lurid, entertaining, even laugh-out-loud funny... we can only hope that Cocker has enough tat for a second volume.
Neil McCormick, The Telegraph
Rummage through its pages - through the plastic and nylon, the tin and vinyl - and it's real gold, its shirts second-hand, of course, but its storytelling first class.
Victoria Segal, Sunday Times
Brilliant...Good Pop, Bad Pop is more than anyone dared hope for
John Aizlewood, i newspaper
Brilliantly fabulous: at once very witty, self-depreciating and moving.
Evening Standard
Thoughtful and very funny... terrific
Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian
Engaging and evocative. He [Cocker] paints a vividly drab picture of the north of England under Thatcherism. And his book is beautiful to look at, too, set out like pop art.
Daily Express
Like a pop culture Proust... a testament to just how rich this junk is that Cocker can weave such a compelling take.
Record Collector
Insightful and delightful.
Hi-Fi Choice
Good Pop, Bad Pop... pulses with the thrilling energy of adolescence and early adulthood... Cocker uses his objects to tell real stories about the past, leaving in the dirt and disappointment around the moments of excitement.
Prospect
With laugh-out-loud passages of comedy and stylish illustrations... [this] is the story of how he [Cocker] made himself into who he is, his acquisition of a personal style and outlook... Hopefully we will not have to hang around long before his next trip to the loft.
Financial Times
Like little madeleines, each relic is offered up to the reader in the intimate, confiding voice familiar from Cocker's lyrics.
Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2022*