Editing Jarvis Cocker (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[Sheffield]], Cocker grew up in the [[Richmond, Sheffield#Intake|Intake]] area of the city and attended [[Outwood Academy City|City School]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Pulp's Jarvis Cocker goes back to his old Sheffield high school |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/pulp-76-1270456 |website=NME |date=8 October 2011 |access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref> His father, [[Mac Cocker]], a DJ and actor, left the family and moved to Sydney when Cocker was seven, and had no contact with his son or daughter, Saskia, until Jarvis was in his thirties. Following their father's departure, both children were brought up by their mother, Christine Connolly,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Letts |first1=Quentin |title=Jarvis was a wonderful mistake |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4714379/Jarvis-was-a-wonderful-mistake.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403032350/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4714379/Jarvis-was-a-wonderful-mistake.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 April 2015 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=3 February 2019|date=13 June 1998}}</ref> who later became a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] councillor.<ref name="independent">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/jarvis-cocker-lone-star-429504.html|title=Jarvis Cocker: Lone star|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=UK|date=23 December 2006|access-date=10 March 2009}}</ref>

Cocker credits his upbringing, almost exclusively in female company, for his interest in how women think and what they have to say.{{fact|date=June 2024}} He wrote a song ("A Little Soul" on ''[[This Is Hardcore]]'') about being abandoned by his father and working briefly as a butler;<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web|url=http://m.pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9548-jarvis-cocker/|title=INTERVIEWS: Jarvis Cocker|work=Pitchfork|date=21 November 2014|access-date=10 January 2016|archive-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205052835/http://m.pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9548-jarvis-cocker/|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 1998, Cocker and his sister travelled to Australia to meet their father for the first time in nearly 30 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jarvis Cocker Reunited With Father |url=https://www.gigwise.com/news/32611/ |website=Gigwise.com|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>

Mac Cocker was a radio DJ in Sydney, with Double J (later renamed [[Triple J]]) in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="Fast">{{cite web|title=12 things you should know about Double J|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/39015/12-things-you-should-know-about-Double-J|work=Faster Louder|publisher=Faster Louder Pty Ltd|access-date=12 April 2014|first=Darren|last=Levin|date=9 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413112033/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/39015/12-things-you-should-know-about-Double-J|archive-date=13 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> By the time of his son's visit, Mac Cocker had moved to a [[hippie]] commune in [[Darwin, Northern Territory]].{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Cocker said he forgave his father (who died in 2016) for abandoning them, saying, "I don't feel any bitterness towards him at all. I feel sorry for him."<ref name="independent"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/times02.html|title=PULP – ACRYLIC AFTERNOONS – Jarvis Cocker Interview|publisher=Acrylic Afternoons|date=16 March 2002|access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref> 

For much of the 1980s, Cocker lived on [[unemployment benefits]] in a derelict factory.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cocker |first=Jarvis |date=16 April 2008 |title=Pulp fiction |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/16/popandrock.pulp |access-date=19 August 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Barber |first=Lynn |date=16 June 2022 |title=Jarvis Cocker measures out his life in attic junk |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jarvis-cocker-measures-out-his-life-in-attic-junk/ |access-date=19 August 2023 |website=[[The Spectator]] |language=en-US}}</ref> In his twenties, Cocker [[squatted]] in London.<ref name="BF">{{cite news |title=Jarvis Cocker's ordinary world |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/longread/jarvis-cockers-ordinary-world-interview |access-date=24 February 2023 |work=The Line of Best Fit |date=16 July 2020}}</ref>