We Might Have Just Found Out Who Inspired Pulp's 'Common People'!
It turns out that the girl who "came from Greece and had a thirst for knowledge" might well be the current Greek finance minister's wife!
Ever since it was released nearly twenty years ago, music fans have speculated as to the inspiration behind Pulp’s classic single ‘Common People’. Now, a Greek newspaper has come up with a theory that the girl who “studied sculpture at St. Martin’s College” is the wife of the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The Athens Voice believes that it has worked out that the girl who told the group’s lead singer Jarvis Cocker that she wanted to “live like common people” is Varoufakis’s wife Danae Stratou, a Greek installation artist, and a new interview with the finance minister took the rumour a step closer to reality.
Jarvis Cocker performing live in 2011
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