There are songs like Wanted or Why I Went Missing where awful 80s slap bass, Linn drums or the squeaky clean production of the period rear their ugly heads, but on the whole these well-crafted tunes stand up surprisingly well.
Lee and drummer Steve White just worked, producing four great albums, and a sackful of classic pop hits. Hooking up with keyboard maestro Mick Talbot, his future wife Dee C. Nevertheless it was a gamble dissolving a band that was scoring plenty of hits, but instinctive artists like Weller – and Bowie before him – are prepared to reinvent themselves, but this was no Tin Machine. Even in the early days of The Jam they were covering soul hits like Heatwave, and horns had crept into their later work, so the switch in 1983 wasn’t the disastrous leap some of his fans thought it was… and some still do.
THE STORY OF THE STYLE COUNCIL MOD
Sadly only the truly hard of thinking could have failed to spot this was going to happen as Weller was always as much a Mod as a punk. Music fans of a certain vintage will remember the outrage as Paul Weller went from being Britain’s angriest young man to a suave soul boy swanning around in a trench coat doing The Paris March.
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