Justin Myers of the Official Charts Company wrote the song "was typical Pulp – a biting satire of posh people 'roughing it' and acting like tourists by hanging with the "common people". He came up with the tune on a Casiotone keyboard he had bought in a music store in Notting Hill, west London. Cocker had conceived the song after meeting a Greek art student while studying at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (the college and the student feature in the lyrics). The song was written by the band members Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Russell Senior. This phenomenon is referred to as slumming or "class tourism". The song is a critique of the wealthy wanting to be "like common people" – ascribing glamour to poverty. In a 2015 Rolling Stone readers' poll it was voted the greatest Britpop song. In 2014, BBC Radio 6 Music listeners voted it their favourite Britpop song in an online poll. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming a defining track of the Britpop movement as well as Pulp's signature song. " Common People" is a song by English alternative rock band Pulp, released in May 1995 as the lead single from their fifth studio album Different Class.
Not to be confused with Love of the Common People.
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