Hilarious BBC blunder as live performance by legendary band Pulp is wrongly subtitled with lines from Miss Marple
A SONG by Pulp was wrongly subtitled with lines from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in a BBC blunder.
Phrases such as “Morning, Miss Marple. How’s the leg?” accompanied Jarvis Cocker.
Hard-of-hearing viewers were baffled as the frontman belted out Spike Island at the Mercury Prize awards ceremony on Thursday night.
Subtitles as he prowled the stage included, “Oooh then… Then the secretary girl came up with Heather Babcock”.
He also appeared to sing, “Dr Haydock, I would be very distressed if I thought you believed”, as well as “On and on she went” and “Honestly, she did go on so!”
Jarvis, 62, later posted snaps online, and wrote: “It appears our performance was accompanied by…… the subtitles to an episode of Miss Marple!”
The singer, quizzed by police when he wiggled his bum at Michael Jackson at the 1996 Brit Awards, wrote: “Whodunnit?”
He added: “I suspect the butler….”
Fans lapped it up, with some saying they could be real Pulp lyrics.
Another joked, in the style of 1995 classic Common People: “Miss Marple from St Mary Mead she had a thirst for sleuthing.”
Christie’s 1980 movie The Mirror Crack’d, with Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, was shown earlier on BBC4.
Pulp were up for the award with new album More — but Sam Fender won for People Watching.