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Една градска легенда, според която песента на Pulp «Common People» е написана за Данаи Страту, съпругата на Янис Варуфакис, привлякла интереса на водещ от BBC, който поставил в неудобно положение гръцкия финансов министър.

Водещият попитал Варуфакис дали е вярно това, че съпругата му е гъркинята, за която се пее в песента на Jarvis Cocker, солист на британската група Pulp.

Варуфакис отговорил, че тогава не е познавал Данаи Страту, потвърдил обаче, че била единствената гъркиня, която учила по това време в колежа St. Martins.

Историята започва преди три месеца, след публикация в Athens Voice, където е разкрит този факт, и отново оживява след препечатването ѝ в Independent.

Данаи Страту наистина е следвала в колежа St. Martins от 1983 до 1988. Било по същото време, когато Cocker ходел на уроци по кинематография. През 2013 той заявил, че е познавал гъркинята, дори си спомнил какво обсъждали.

«Искаше да се премести в Hackney и да живее като обикновените хора». Това било и вдъхновението за неговата песен, макар че певецът не разкрил самоличността на гъркинята.

Ето стиховете и клипа на супер-хита от 90-те години:

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge

She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College, that's where I caught her eye. 

She told me that her Dad was loaded

I said in that case I'll have a rum and coke-cola. 

She said fine and in thirty seconds time she said, I want to live like common people

I want to do whatever common people do, I want to sleep with common people

I want to sleep with common people like you. 

Well what else could I do - I said I'll see what I can do. 

I took her to a supermarket

I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere, so it started there. 

I said pretend you've got no money, she just laughed and said oh you're so funny. 

I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here. 

Are you sure you want to live like common people

You want to see whatever common people see

You want to sleep with common people, 

you want to sleep with common people like me. 

But she didn't understand, she just smiled and held my hand. 

Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job. 

Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school. 

But still you'll never get it right 

'cos when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall 

If you call your Dad he could stop it all. 

You'll never live like common people

You'll never do what common people do

You'll never fail like common people

You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw 

Because there's nothing else to do. 

Sing along with the common people, sing along and it might just get you thru'

Laugh along with the common people

Laugh along even though they're laughing at you and the stupid things that you do. 

Because you think that poor is cool. 

I want to live with common people, I want to live with common people [etc..]