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Jarvis Cocker: ā€˜I looked like an extra off The Sound of Music’

Musician and actor Jarvis Cocker tells 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake why going to school in the ā€œsuburbs of Sheffieldā€ wearing lederhosen ā€œjust wasn’t the lookā€.

Jarvis was gifted a pair of lederhosen from his relatives in Germany; ā€œI’m sure if you were in the right environment like some Alpine village, [you’d be seen as] looking sharpā€.

He described his outfit like ā€œan extra out of The Sound of Music or Heidiā€ and insisted it was inappropriate for ā€œan inner-city schoolā€.

ā€œI was already self-conscious anyway as I was quite tall, I had glasses and long hair etc. but this just took it to a new level.ā€

ā€œIt went even further because somebody noticed on the front of the shorts, instead of having one normal zip, it had two zips side-by-side which let down a flapā€- leading to a nickname that ā€œI can’t repeatā€.

This clip is originally from Nihal Arthanayake on Thursday 26 May 2022.

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