Pastoral psychedelia of a sort, albeit shot through Weller’s grimy early 80s lens – “life and death are carried in this stream”, he sings – and there’s a dark undercurrent to the music. Tales From the Riverbank is the perfect example of the Jam’s willingness to release superb, A-side quality songs as B-sides. 18. The Style Council – Headstart for Happiness (1983) As the 1980s wore on, the Style Council's popularity in the UK began to slide, with the band achieving only one top ten single after 1985. The Style Council's death knell was sounded in 1989 when its record company refused to release its fifth and final studio album, the house-influenced Modernism: A New Decade. With the rejection of this effort, Weller announced that the Style Council had split. It was not until the 1998 retrospective CD box set The Complete Adventures of the Style Council that the album would be widely available. In 2007 Weller was guest vocalist on the album issue by the folk musical project the Imagined Village. [16] Critical success (2008–present) [ edit ] Weller and band line-up in Cardiff in 2008 Rigby, Sam (12 May 2015). "Paul Weller thinks Noel Gallagher is better without Oasis now". Digital Spy . Retrieved 1 March 2022. During the Jam and early Style Council years, Weller worked various literary influences into this work, most notably George Orwell, romantic poet Percy Shelley, and poet friends Dave Waller and Aidan Cant.

In the late 1980s, his tastes became increasingly eclectic as the Style Council's later releases were influenced by artists as diverse as Claude Debussy and American house music. In 2015, Weller made a West Coast Tour of the US to promote the Saturn's Pattern album. The tour ran from 9 June to 9 October. [26] [27] Matrix / Runout (CD2): [Universal logo] 4572081 [Universal logo] AM77290-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH a b Hand, Shaun (2016). Pop Art Poems: The Music of The Jam. Sheep Publishing. p.70. ISBN 978-1526205254.Hand, Shaun (2016). Pop Art Poems: The Music of The Jam. Sheep Publishing. p.237. ISBN 978-1526205254.

Munn, Iain (2008). Mr Cool's Dream: The Complete History of the Style Council. Wholepoint Publications. ISBN 978-0-9551443-1-8. Weller & Wife Expecting Twins". PaulWeller.com. London. 7 November 2011. Archived from the original on 6 December 2011 . Retrieved 8 November 2011. NME Godlike Genius award for Modfather Paul Weller". The Independent. London. 3 September 2009. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022 . Retrieved 9 February 2010.

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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "British certifications – Paul Weller". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 26 November 2022. Type Paul Weller in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. The relative commercial failure of Confessions of a Pop Group certainly wasn’t down to the quality of the music it contained – it may be the Style Council’s best album. And Life at a Top People’s Heath Farm should have been a bigger hit: soul horns, electronic funk, a ferociously bitter lyric. 27. Paul Weller – Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There to Fool You!) (1992)The Charlatans announce new album featuring Paul Weller, Kurt Wagner and Johnny Marr". NME . Retrieved 2017-08-14. Weller in the mid-80s Style Council days. Photograph: Photoshot/Getty Images 5. The Jam – The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) (1982) Album – Classifica settimanale WK 20 (dal 14.5.2021 al 20.5.2021)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 21 May 2021. Despite widespread critical recognition as a singer, lyricist, and guitarist, Weller has remained a national—rather than international—star, and much of his songwriting is rooted in English society. Many of his songs with the Jam had lyrics about working class life. [1] He was the principal figure of the 1970s and 1980s mod revival, often referred to as "The Modfather", [2] [3] and an influence on Britpop bands such as Oasis. [4] He has received four Brit Awards, including Best British Male three times, and the 2006 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The Jam's first single, " In the City", took them into the UK Top 40 in May 1977. Although every subsequent single had a placing within the Top 40, it was not until the group released the political " The Eton Rifles" that they would break into the Top 10, hitting the No.3 spot in November 1979. The increasing popularity of their blend of Weller's barbed lyrics with pop melodies eventually led to their first number one single, " Going Underground", in March 1980.