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There was so much other stuff going on, it wasn’t the be all end all of my life. But I’d got into The Jam midway through their career, so when they split, I wasn’t heartbroken. Stuart Deabill (co-author of Soul Deep): The Jam was my band. The Style Council's new compilation album 'Long Hot Summers' is out now! The long-awaited and eagerly anticipated definitive career anthology teaming with greatest hits, demos, remixes and unreleased tracks, is available now ✊ /AJJGxczJzh It was very tribal, and a lot of their fans were very young. And The Jam had this very schoolyard following.
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So in that period, everything was changing. Pat Gilbert (journalist, liner notes for The Complete Adventures of The Style Council): The punk and the new wave thing had exhausted itself. I’m still a bit miffed with the Rolling Stones for taking Ronnie Wood away from Rod Stewart and the Faces! But I do think the Jam was such an important part of people’s growing up, and for a certain generation, they were quite heartbroken. being a small island, and three or four music papers dominating things in those days and having a bigger influence, a large part of their staffs were people that understood things as long as they were guitar-driven. Mick Talbot (keyboards): I think the U.K. We’d taken it as far as I thought it could go. Paul Weller (vocals, guitar): I was done with The Jam.
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In honor of the release of the Long Hot Summers best of and film, Rock Cellar has compiled recent interviews with the bandmembers, and those who were there and have studied the Style Council’s career and legacy closely, to reflect on one of the few bands of the 1980s whose sound and image has stood the test of time. There’s also an amazing new illustrated book about the band, Soul Deep: Adventures With The Style Council which has already sold out - but we can report here exclusively that the book will be headed for a paperback edition in 2021, and will take fans back to the classic, ultra-stylish heyday of the band that set Weller and his colleagues apart so markedly from any contemporaries. These releases are reminding even casual fans just how remarkable Paul Weller’s post-Jam band was.Ĭlick here to pre-order Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council on CD from our Rock Cellar Store (and is available now to stream via Showtime). 6 on CD, and a documentary of the same name airs Oct. “When I do look back, that was the most fun I ever had in my career,” Paul Weller told me earlier this spring about his days in the Style Council, the band he formed with keyboardist Mick Talbot after splitting The Jam at the height of its popularity.Ī great new compilation, Long Hot Summers: The Story of The Style Council is out today on digital platforms and Nov.