The song is about Jarvis Cocker's childhood friend Deborah Bone.
When Deborah was 10 she moved from Sheffield to Letchworth but she remained friends with Cocker, who sang the song at her 50th Birthday party.
Bone was also an award-winning British mental health nurse who received an MBE for her work for "her services to children’s mental health" in 2015.
Unfortunately she was affected by the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. She died at home on 30 December 2014, the day her MBE was announced.
She was only 51 years old.
She is survived by her husband Colin and daughters, Pollyanna (who also works for the National Health Service) and Jem, and a grandson, with a granddaughter on the way.
She and Cocker may never have been more than friends but their friendship was strong and every time I hear this song I stop for a minute and think about this woman and how Cocker must feel every time he hears or performs this song.
The song is about Jarvis Cocker's childhood friend Deborah Bone. When Deborah was 10 she moved from Sheffield to Letchworth but she remained friends with Cocker, who sang the song at her 50th Birthday party.
Bone was also an award-winning British mental health nurse who received an MBE for her work for "her services to children’s mental health" in 2015.
Unfortunately she was affected by the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. She died at home on 30 December 2014, the day her MBE was announced.
She was only 51 years old.
She is survived by her husband Colin and daughters, Pollyanna (who also works for the National Health Service) and Jem, and a grandson, with a granddaughter on the way.
She and Cocker may never have been more than friends but their friendship was strong and every time I hear this song I stop for a minute and think about this woman and how Cocker must feel every time he hears or performs this song.
@Donno Aw thank you for sharing that. How sad and how lovely at the same time.
@Donno Aw thank you for sharing that. How sad and how lovely at the same time.