Cocker 'not proud' of Jackson invasion

Jarvis Cocker has admitted that he regrets invading the stage during Michael Jackson's 1996 Brit Awards performance.

The former Pulp frontman was physically removed by security after disrupting Jackson's performance of 'Earth Song' at the annual music event.

"That one action transported me to a kind of tabloid fame, which I couldn't have imagined. My whole set of values had nothing to do with that kind of tabloidy thing. It took me a long time to work through," he told Spin.

Cocker claimed that the extensive tabloid newspaper coverage of his action drew the public focus away from the group's musical credentials.

"I just pushed it too far with that thing, because it wasn't, 'Jarvis Cocker played an amazing song at the Brit Awards last night'. It was, 'Jarvis Cocker titted about at the Brit Awards last night'.

"I had been in a band 15 years, and in 15 seconds, I became more well known. All that bloody work! Thrown away!"

Cocker released his second solo album Further Complications on May 18.