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Niall Doherty

“For three days we had people screaming at us as if we were The Beatles”: Jarvis Cocker on the time that Pulp and Radiohead formed a supergroup to appear in a Harry Potter film

The Weird Sisters in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Pulp are just coming off the back of a run of triumphant, rapturously-received reunion shows but even then it’s doubtful that their diehard fans could match the best crowd reaction Jarvis Cocker has been on the end of. That honour would fall to the time he formed a supergroup with Radiohead members and became a wizarding superstar performing at the annual Hogwarts Yule Ball for a scene in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. Should we get Jarvis to explain it himself? Perhaps that would be best. Go on Jarvis:

“There’s the big Yule Ball scene so the word went out asking people to write songs so I submitted and they liked it,” the Pulp singer told Stereogum. “I thought they were just going to have the song playing in the film, then they asked me to be in it.”

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