In 2015, during the worst of the Greek debt crisis, the finance minister was an economist named Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis, who was famous for riding around on a motorcycle and generally just being a cooler guy than your average finance minister. He was married to Danae Stratou, an installation artist whose family owned the country's biggest textile company. She was mega rich. Some enterprising journalists noticed that she had attended St. Martin's College, London, the place Jarvis Cocker mentions he met his rich Greek girlfriend and that she went there at the same time as Cocker. Neither of them has commented on whether she was the woman in the song but Cocker has said that while much of the song is true, the part where the heiress wants to sleep with him is made up. Varoufakis, when asked, did say that Cocker and his wife were at the school at the same time and she is a "fascinating" woman.
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In 2015, during the worst of the Greek debt crisis, the finance minister was an economist named Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis, who was famous for riding around on a motorcycle and generally just being a cooler guy than your average finance minister. He was married to Danae Stratou, an installation artist whose family owned the country's biggest textile company. She was mega rich. Some enterprising journalists noticed that she had attended St. Martin's College, London, the place Jarvis Cocker mentions he met his rich Greek girlfriend and that she went there at the same time as Cocker. Neither of them has commented on whether she was the woman in the song but Cocker has said that while much of the song is true, the part where the heiress wants to sleep with him is made up. Varoufakis, when asked, did say that Cocker and his wife were at the school at the same time and she is a "fascinating" woman.
I too love the song, btw.
One of my all time favourites. Was great to see them on tour this past summer.
Love this song. I also love that William Shatner and Joe Jackson took it to a place I didn’t know that I needed.
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