Pulp were riding high in summer 1995. It has been a triumphant few months for Jarvis Cocker & co., back in the limelight after a run of celebratory shows and a brilliant comeback record, but it’s hard to imagine it tasting as sweet as it did at this point three decades ago. Success had been a long, long time coming for Pulp, who had formed in Sheffield in 1978 and almost called it quits a decade later, Cocker fed up with a lack of progress.
But they persisted and finally got a big breakthrough after signing with Island Records and scoring their first Top 40 hit in 1994 with the indelible Do You Remember The First Time?. They couldn’t have imagined the heady success that would be coming their way just over a year later.
