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Jarvis Cocker forms a band ("Arabicus") with his secondary school friends and begins rehearsing.
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Cocker convinces his Arabicus bandmates to rename the band "Pulp."
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Pulp are invited to record their first Peel Session after Cocker gives John Peel the band's demo tape at Sheffield Polytechnic.
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Russell Senior joins the band on guitar and violin duties.
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Candida Doyle, sister of then-drummer Magnus Doyle, joins the band on keyboard duties.
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Pulp sign their first contract with Fire Records.
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Nick Banks joins the band on drums.
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Cocker leaves Sheffield for London, where he studies film at Central Saint Martin's College. Pulp more or less goes on hiatus.
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Steve Mackey joins the band on bass guitar, completing the band's "classic" lineup.
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Pulp's overly ambitious and ultimately disastrous show, "The Day that Never Happened," makes the band - and, in particular, Cocker - question its future.
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Pulp sign to major label Island Records.
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Pulp release Intro, a compilation of the singles they released via Gift Records, an imprint of Warp Records.
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Pulp make their first appearance on Top of the Pops, miming their single "Babies."
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Longtime assistant to the band and collaborator Mark Webber is asked to officially join Pulp on rhythm guitar, among other musical duties.
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Pulp's single "Common People" reaches number two in the charts, becoming the band's highest-charting single.
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Pulp headline the 1995 Glastonbury Festival on the Pyramid Stage after The Stone Roses pull out at the last minute due to an injury.
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Nominees Pulp play "Sorted for E's and Wizz" at the 1996 Brit Awards. Cocker invades the stage during Michael Jackson's performance of "Earth Song" in protest; he is detained, but ultimately released.
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Pulp are awarded the Mercury Music Prize for their album Different Class. They perform "Bar Italia" at the ceremony and donate their winnings to War Child.
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Due in part to creative differences, long-time member Russell Senior leaves Pulp in January 1997.
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Pulp release their seventh and final album to date, We Love Life, on Island Records.
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The band's "classic" lineup - Cocker, Senior, Doyle, Banks, and Mackey - along with Webber reunite for a limited reunion tour.
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Jarvis Cocker publishes a collection of his lyrics entitled Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics.
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Russell Senior publishes a memoir centered on his time in Pulp entitled Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp.
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Pulp - consisting "classic" members Cocker, Doyle, and Banks, along with Webber - reunite for the "This Is What We Do for an Encore" worldwide tour.
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Steve Mackey dies from medical complications at age fifty-six.
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Nick Banks publishes a memoir focusing on his time in Pulp entitled So It Started There: From Punk to Pulp.
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Mark Webber publishes a book of illustrations and essays pertaining to his time in Pulp entitled I'm With Pulp, Are You?.
Source: PulpWiki
