May 13/15 – Failing like common people

In the mid 1990s, after ten years of struggling, a British pop group by the name of Pulp finally broke out. Some of you will know the band, but I suspect a whole swath of my readers will have never heard of Pulp. For my older readers, think about them as a version of the Kinks – a good band, but never really achieving the popularity of the Beatles or th…