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From a young age, he had dreamed of becoming a pop star, though his unconventional charms and slow progress in learning to play the guitar seemed to indicate that the fame he craved would remain forever in his dreams. Then punk rock came along, catalysing his ambitions in earnest. In 1978, when he was 15, Jarvis started a band called Arabicus Pulp. After the excision of the first word of their name, years of struggling in obscurity, a hiatus (during which Jarvis got a degree in film-making at St Martins art college in London), and innumerable membership and stylistic changes, Music/{{Pulp}} finally came into their own and became famous in the mid-90s. Fame was not kind to Jarvis and by the turn of the 21st century, he was recovering from drug addiction and dealing with the aftermath of nervous breakdown and general disillusionment with the nature of the music business

* AdultFear: "Hold Still" was inspired by Jarvis briefly losing his son at the train station and having several nightmare scenarios go through his mind.

After finding that his dabblings in writing songs for film soundtracks and for other people (including Nancy Sinatra and Charlotte Gainsbourg) did not satisfy him, he returned to music in earnest, recording and releasing his first solo album, ''Jarvis'', in 2006. The download-only single "Running the World", which was ostensibly about the negative impact of capitalism on morality among world leaders and people in power, was a slightly out of character moment for the mild-mannered Jarvis. This album was followed by 2009's ''"Further complications."'', its louder and more rock-oriented brother, as well as continued collaboration with other bands and artists.

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