Cocker: “Thank you to everyone who helped or said good things about Christine.”
Jarvis Cocker made it public in his current social media post on February 19th that his mother passed away on January 1st, 2024. A day earlier, on December 31st, the 60-year-old and his band Pulp played a gig in Edinburgh for the Scottish holiday Hogmanay to ring in the New Year. At this one he had also already paid tribute to his mother by showing a photo of her as the background of the stage and getting the audience to call out her name because he knew that she wouldn’t live much longer. Now he thanks the fans for the campaign.
Jarvis Cocker to the audience: “I love you”
“It’s been 49 days since my mother died. She died the day after Pulp played the Hogmanay concert in Edinburgh. I traveled back to the South on New Year’s Day and she left this earth at 10:15 that evening,” Jarvis Cocker began his Instagram-Post Office. He also showed the picture of his deceased parent, which also adorned the stage at the New Year’s Eve performance, as well as a selfie video with the live crowd in the background, who together loudly say the name “Christine”. In the clip, Cocker finally smiles into the camera and says, “I love you.”
The Sheffield, England-born musician continued in his post: “Clip #2 shows me getting the crowd in Edinburgh chanting their name. Thank you to everyone who has helped me or said good things about Christine since then.”
Jarvis Cocker’s Instagram post:
However, it is not known how Jarvis Cocker’s mother, Christine Connolly, died or how old she lived.