The Style Council was Paul Weller's next big project after The Jam. The song, You're The Best Thing, charted in 1984 in the UK as a double A side with The Big Boss Groove and rose to the heights of number 5. Weller was perhaps the original angry young man of 80's pop music, so this came as a bit of a surprise - a gorgeous love song.
It's a song in which Weller tells his love that he's been tempted, but that nothing could move him from her - 'I might shoot to win and commit the sin... I'm content just with the riches that you bring.'
Paul Weller, the Modfather of Rock.
Uncomfortable in the pop limelight, Paul Weller has at times, unfortunatley suffered for his art. His fascination with contemporary black music eventually led The Style Council to a dead end and his moral convictions, championing like CND and Red Wedge, left him disillusioned with politics.
Paul Weller's return was slow but gradual and for the last decade he enjoyed an artistic renaissance that continues unabated. He is idolised by the newer breeds of British bands, most notably Oasis and respected by every generation of rock stars.
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An English rock band, which had their prime time during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They shared the "angry young men" style and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, however The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and they actively used a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences, compared to lots of other bands that were active at that time, which made them one of the leading bands of the mod revival movement.
The Jam 1972–1982
Paul Weller was born on 25 May 1958 in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey, England, to John and Ann Weller. He was initially known as John William Weller but later acquired the name Paul.
His father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was a part-time cleaner. In 1963 Weller started his education at Maybury County First School. His love of music started with The Beatles, then The Who and the Small Faces. By the time Weller was eleven and moving upto secondary school at Sheerwater County Secondary, music was the biggest part of his life and he began playing the guitar.
In 1972 Weller formed his first group, the Jam, playing bass guitar with his best friends Steve Brookes (lead guitar) and Dave Waller (rhythm guitar). Weller's father, their manager, began booking the band into local working men's clubs. Joined by Rick Buckler on drums and with Bruce Foxton soon replacing Waller on rhythm guitar, the four-piece band began to forge a local reputation playing a mixture of Beatles covers and a number of compositions written by Weller and Brooks.
In 1976 Brookes left the band and Weller and Foxton decided they would swap guitar roles, with Weller now the lead singer.
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