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Paul Weller (born John Weller 25 May 1958, Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Style Council were a British musical group formed in 1983 by ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot. ...
Mod revivalist band The Jams Bruce Foxton (left) on a Rickenbacker bass and Paul Weller on a Rickenbacker guitar Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker (IPA pronunciation: ) [1]), is an electric guitar manufacturer, notable for having invented the first electric guitar during the 1930s. ...
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Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 967 AD Area - Total 130,395 km² 50,346 sq mi Population - 2007 estimate...
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Weller was the leader and creator behind the formation of two successful bands, The Jam and The Style Council. In the UK, he is recognised as something of a national institution, yet because much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture, he has remained essentially a national rather than an international star. He is also the principal figure of the Mod revival. In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ...
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The Style Council were a British musical group formed in 1983 by ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot. ...
A songwriter is someone who writes either the lyrics or the music for songs. ...
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Career
The Jam Weller first burst onto the national music scene in 1977 with his first band, The Jam, which he formed four years earlier as a teenager in Woking with his friends Steve Brooks (lead guitar), Rick Buckler (drums) and Bruce Foxton (rhythm guitar). Weller himself took lead vocal duties and bass guitar, although a talented lead guitarist. When Steve Brooks left the band, Weller and Foxton swapped guitar roles. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
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Lead guitar refers to a role within a band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. ...
Rick Buckler (born 6 December 1955—), was the drummer and an original member of The Jam, a British rock-band that enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1982. ...
A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ...
Bruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician born on September 1st 1955 in Woking, Surrey who is best remembered as the bass player in punk/new wave band The Jam. ...
Rhythm guitar is a guitar that is primarily used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment for a singer or for other instruments in an ensemble. ...
The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is an electrically-amplified string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ...
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The Jam's 1982 album The Gift. 1977 was the year after the first wave of punk bands such as The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Clash and The Stranglers had arrived in the public eye. Although The Jam's music had much of the fire and the passion of those bands, in terms of songwriting ability and lyrical content, The Jam were more in the mould of the so-called 'new wave' bands who came later. Also, being from just outside of London rather than in it, they were never really part of the tightly-knit punk clique. Uploaded to illustrate Paul Weller. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
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Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Leigh, Manchester in 1975[1], led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Shelley for nearly their entire existence. ...
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The Stranglers are an English rock music group, formed on September 11, 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. ...
New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ...
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Nonetheless, The Clash seemed to take the most notice of the band. Joe Strummer even supposedly had a conversation with the young Paul Weller and suggested he write songs about things that affected him, and songs that involved society and politics. The Clash were also suitably impressed by The Jam to take them along as the support act on their White Riot tour of 1977. The Jam went on to be far more successful, at least in terms of the singles charts, than The Clash in the UK. John Graham Mellor (August 21, 1952 – December 22, 2002) better known as Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash, The Mescaleros and (temporarily) The Pogues. ...
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"In the City" took The Jam into the UK Top 40 for the first time in May 1977, and although every subsequent single had a placing within the Top 40, it would take another two years and eight singles before they were sufficiently engrained in the British national consciousness for "The Eton Rifles" to break the Top 10, hitting the No. 3 spot in November 1979. The UK Singles Chart is compiled by the Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the music industry. ...
A top 10 list is a generic term used to indicate a list of items, usually ten in number, which are considered to be best, worst, or notable in some other way, typically a record chart. ...
From then on their blend of pop tunes and politically-aware lyrics made them hugely popular, and in 1980 they hit number one for the first time with what many believe to be the definitive Paul Weller song, "Going Underground", which was to become in effect the band's signature tune. A popular story has it that hitting the charts at all was in fact an accident for "Going Underground": it was supposed to be a double A side with "Dreams of Children", a less-remembered song, but a mistake at a French pressing plant meant "Going Underground" was given 'A' status on the label. Whether this is true or apocryphal is not known, but whatever the case, after "Going Underground", The Jam - and Weller in particular - were UK superstars. In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ...
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Weller was strongly influenced by 1960s bands such as The Kinks, The Small Faces and The Who, all three great favourites of his and whose influence can be heard in much of The Jam's material. However, that did not mean that he was averse to finding inspiration in the works of many other artists: the Jam's second number one single, "Start!" lifts the bass line from The Beatles' "Taxman", for example. The group's third chart topper, "Town Called Malice", which found renewed fame on the Billy Elliot soundtrack (2001), has a driving bass line taken straight from one of Martha Reeves & the Vandellas' less-remembered hits, "Gettin' Ready for Love." The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
The Kinks were an English rock group formed in 1963 by lead singer-songwriter Ray Davies and his brother, lead guitarist and vocalist, Dave Davies. ...
Small Faces, left to right: Ian McLagan, Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane For the Scottish film, see Small Faces (film). ...
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The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ...
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Paul Weller from the cover of 'Hit Parade'. By the early 1980s, The Jam had become possibly the biggest band in Britain. They became the only band other than The Beatles to perform two songs ("Town Called Malice" and "Precious") on one edition of Top of the Pops (the feat would later also be equalled by Oasis and Manic Street Preachers). The Jam even had one single, "That's Entertainment", reach No. 21 in the UK singles chart despite not even being released in that country - it got there purely on the strength of the huge number of people buying import sales of the German single release. Weller, however, was eager to explore other musical avenues he felt he could not follow with The Jam. Later Jam songs such as "The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)" - often described by critics as "a Style Council song pretending to be a Jam song" - showed that he longed to write in a more melodic, soulful style. He felt he had taken The Jam as far as he could and was eager to move on. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
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The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) was a single released by The Jam after the success of the album The Gift. ...
The Style Council was formed by ex-Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot in 1983. ...
Thus in late 1982, Weller shocked fans and the press - as well as his fellow band members Buckler and Foxton - by announcing that The Jam would disband at the end of the year. Their final single, "Beat Surrender", became their fourth UK chart topper, going straight to No. 1 in its first week, which was still a rare achievement at the time, and their farewell concerts at Wembley Arena were multiple sell-outs. Their final concert took place at the Brighton Centre on the 11 December 1982. Wembley Arena at Night (Taken at a live WWE Show). ...
The Style Council At the beginning of 1983, The Jam had disbanded, and the press and public wondered what was next for Paul Weller. The answer emerged in the form of a collaboration with a friend, keyboard player Mick Talbot, to form a new group called The Style Council. Soon after 1983 Weller brought in Steve White to play drums at the age of just sixteen. White has been playing with Weller ever since (apart from a two year break in 1989-1990). Mick Talbot is a keyboardist from England. ...
The Style Council was formed by ex-Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot in 1983. ...
Steve White (born on 31 May 1965 in Bermondsey, London) is an English drummer, who has worked extensively with Paul Weller, The Style Council and other British musicians. ...
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A very different band from The Jam, The Style Council played a whole range of musical styles, from outright pop to jazz, soul and the occasional ballad. The band was at the vanguard of a jazz/pop revival that would continue with the emergence of bands like Matt Bianco, Sade, and Everything But The Girl, whose members Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt contributed vocals and guitar to a Style Council song, "Paris Match". However, the Style Council were not completely untouched by the spirit of The Jam - indeed, one of their early singles "A Solid Bond In Your Heart" was originally written and recorded during The Jam era, this earlier version later turning up on that band's Extras compilation. And as "The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)" is sometimes labelled a Style Council song pretending to be a Jam song, so 1985's "Walls Come Tumbling Down!" is often compared to a Jam song disguised in Style Council colours. "Walls Come Tumbling Down!", incidentally, did well in North America, appearing with "The Internalionalists" on the Live Aid album and getting airplay on some college radio stations. Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ...
Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. ...
The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the self-aware essence unique to a particular living being. ...
Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ...
Matt Bianco is a 1980s UK pop group formed by Basia Trzetrzelewska (vocals), Mark Reilly (vocals) and Danny White (keyboards). ...
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Tracey Thorn (born September 26, 1962, in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer and songwriter. ...
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 The Style Council's 1988 album Confessions of a Pop Group. Although the Style Council were never as successful chart-wise as The Jam had been - they never had a No. 1 single - that did not stop the mid 1980s from being possibly the peak of Weller's public profile in the UK. Weller is reported to have said at the time that it would be pointless for people to like The Style Council just because they liked The Jam. Uploaded to illustrate Paul Weller. ...
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He appeared on 1984's famous Band Aid record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (although his major contribution was probably to mime the unavailable Bono's part on the Top of the Pops performance of the song) and the Style Council were the second act to appear in the British half of Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985. Cover art for the original release of Do They Know Its Christmas? – artist Peter Blake Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record Do They...
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At around the same time as the Band Aid single, in December 1984, Weller put together his own charity ensemble, the Council Collective, to make a record ("Soul Deep") to raise money for the striking miners. The record featured the Style Council plus a number of other performers, notably Jimmy Ruffin and Junior Giscombe. In spite of the song's political content it still picked up BBC Radio 1 airplay and was performed on Top of the Pops, which led to the incongruous sight of lyrics such as "We can't afford to let the government win/It means death to the trade unions" being mimed amidst the flashing lights and party atmosphere of TOTP. It also gave us the unprecedented sound of Paul Weller rapping. The miners strike of 1984–1985 was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. ...
Jimmy Ruffin (born May 7, 1939 in Collinsville, Mississippi) is an African-American soul singer and older brother of David Ruffin, one of the lead singers for The Temptations. ...
Also known as Junior Giscombe Norman Giscombe was born on 10 November 1961, England. ...
For any of the numerous radio stations with the name Radio 1, see Radio 1 (disambiguation) BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music aimed at the 14-26 age bracket. ...
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
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Despite their success at home, the Style Council were only marginally more successful internationally than The Jam had been, with "My Ever Changing Moods" providing them with their one and only single to ever make the US Billboard Hot 100. As the 1980s wore on, the Style Council's popularity in the UK itself began to slide, with none of their singles even reaching the Top 20 any more. For the first time in Weller's career, he found himself somewhat in the shade, and the death-knell of The Style Council was sounded in 1989 when their record company refused to even release their fifth and final studio album, Modernism - a New Decade, although this did eventually have a limited vinyl run and appeared on The Complete Adventures of the Style Council, retrospective CD box set. Perhaps indicative of the growing British impatience with Weller, the line: "kick out the Style, bring back the Jam" was included in the Tears for Fears' song, "Sowing The Seeds of Love" The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ...
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Solo career
 Weller performing at V-Fest. In 1989, Weller disbanded The Style Council and disappeared from the public eye for a couple of years, before returning to prominence as one of the major influences of the mid 1990s (beginning in 1991 as The Paul Weller Movement and later simply as Paul Weller). With his long term drummer and friend Steve White in tow, Weller successfully joined the 'Britpop' movement that gave rise to such bands as Oasis and Blur. Oasis in particular cited being heavily influenced by The Jam . Weller even appeared as a guest guitarist and backing vocalist on "Champagne Supernova", on Oasis's seminal 1995 album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, perhaps the defining moment of Britpop. During this time Weller's music was also marketed amongst the emerging Acid Jazz scene. Some of early solo tracks (mostly the B-sides of his first few solo singles) epitomize the genre. These tracks include "Here's a New Thing", and "That Spiritual Feeling" (which was recycled from the then-unreleased "Modernism: A New Decade" sessions). Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Steve White (born on 31 May 1965 in Bermondsey, London) is an English drummer, who has worked extensively with Paul Weller, The Style Council and other British musicians. ...
Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ...
Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ...
Blur are an English rock band formed in Colchester in 1989. ...
Champagne Supernova is a song by the band Oasis. ...
(Whats the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released in October 1995. ...
Acid jazz (sometimes groove jazz) is a musical genre that combines jazz influences with elements of soul music, funk, disco and hip hop. ...
In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ...
Noel Gallagher also appeared on Weller's album Stanley Road, providing guitar and backing vocals on the cover of Dr. John's song "I Walk On Gilded Splinters". In particular, Weller was an important influence in the development of Ocean Colour Scene, and members of that band, particularly guitarist Steve Cradock, who has been a regular fixture in Weller's band since the early 1990s except for 99-2000 when Ocean Colour Scene had reached their peak and guitar duties went to Matt Deighton of Mother Earth. Paul Weller went back on the road performing Jam and Style Council covers, under the guise of The Paul Weller Movement, eventually releasing a single "Into Tomorrow" on his own Freedom High record label. His first solo album, the self-titled Paul Weller, featured photography from Nick Knight. The album was financed partly from the sale of his London West End based recording studio, Solid Bond. The difference between his last work, the house music workout Modernism - A New Decade and this solo album four years on were astounding; the new sound saw a return to a raw guitar sound, enriched with samples and a funk influence, with shades of The Style Council sound. His new producer Brendan Lynch contributed to his new sound. Stanley Road is an album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. ...
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ...
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Ocean Colour Scene (often abbreviated to OCS) are a rock band from Birmingham, England. ...
Steve Cradock (born 22 August 1969) is a guitarist for the British rock group Ocean Colour Scene. ...
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Paul Weller is Paul Wellers first solo album, released in 1992. ...
Fans and critics hail Wild Wood as one of his finest albums. Recorded deep in the English countryside, it had the sound and style of the new "get out of the city" Weller, a man matured and married with children. Wild Wood was Paul Wellers second solo record, released in 1993. ...
 Weller's 1995 solo album Stanley Road reached #1 in the UK. However, his role was not that of a mere influence: his own 1995 album Stanley Road took him back to the top of the British charts, and went on to become the best selling album of his career. The album was named after the street in Woking where he had grown up. It marked a return to the more guitar-based style of his earlier days, albeit with a more grown-up mature edge than the sheer adrenaline rush The Jam had provided. The album's major single, "The Changingman", was also a big hit, taking Weller back into the Top 10 of the UK singles charts (Weller's detractors, however, noted that the song's descending guitar riff bore a strong resemblance to the one used on the Electric Light Orchestra's debut single, "10538 Overture"). The album also featured a second popular single, the ballad "You Do Something To Me". The album also featured Wings of Speed inspired by the famous painting The Lady of Shalot,which he had seen in the Tate Gallery. Uploaded to illustrate Paul Weller. ...
Stanley Road is an album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. ...
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Heavy Soul, the follow up to the million-selling Stanley Road saw Weller twist his sound again. The album was more raw than its predecessor, Weller now obsessed with playing live in the studio and with doing as few takes as possible. The album failed to top the chart, mainly because a limited edition was deemed to have too many 'freebies' included to be chart-eligible. The issue was that the images featured in the booklet of the main release were separate in the limited version. This would also include a small but often unrecognised use of Gil Scott Heron's "Lady Day & John Coltrane" on the track "science" Heavy Soul is an album by by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, originally release on the 5th August 1997. ...
New Jam and Style Council 'best of' albums took his earlier career back into the charts, including a reissue of "The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow") and his own solo 'best of' collection Modern Classics was a substantial success in 1998.
The year 2000 saw the release of his fifth solo studio album, and seventh solo effort overall, called Heliocentric (as well as the Modern Classics compilation, there had also been the 1994 live album called Live Wood). There were rumours at the time that this would be his final studio effort, but these proved unfounded when he released the No. 1 hit album Illumination in September 2002, preceded by yet another top ten hit single "It's Written In The Stars". Between these two albums he had also released a second successful live album, 2001's Days Of Speed, which contained live acoustic versions from his world tour of the same name. The LP included some of his best-known songs not just from his solo career but from The Jam and Style Council] back catalogues as well. This was mainly due to the fact that Paul had again found himself without a record contract and the tour provided him with the opportunity to view his works as one back catalogue. Heliocentric is an album by Paul Weller, released 10 April 2000 in the UK. Track listing Hes The Keeper Frightened Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea Back In the Fire A Whales Tale Dust and Ricks Theres No Drinking After Youre Dead With Time & Temperance Picking Up...
Live Wood, released in 1994 was Paul Wellers first solo live album, comprising a collection of high energy and melodic numbers selected from his successful 1993/1994 tour. ...
Illumination is an album by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, released on 16 September 2002. ...
Days of Speed is Paul Wellers second live album, released on 8 October 2001 in the UK and 2 July 2002 in the US. Brand New Start The Loved Out Of The Sinking Clues English Rose Above The Clouds You Do Something To Me Amongst Butterflies Science Back In...
2003 saw Weller team up with electronic-rock duo Death in Vegas on a cover of Gene Clark's "So You Say You Lost Your Baby" which featured on the album Scorpio Rising. Death in Vegas is a psychedelic rock and electronica band from the United Kingdom, currently comprised of two permanent members: Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes. ...
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In 2004 Weller released an album of covers entitled Studio 150. It debuted at No. 2 in the UK charts and included Bob Dylan's, "All Along the Watchtower", better known by the flinky-fingered guitarist Jimi Hendrix. The album also contained the singles "The Bottle" originally performed by Gil Scott Heron, "Wishing On A Star" by Rose Royce, "Thinking Of You" by Sister Sledge and "Early Morning Rain" by Gordon Lightfoot. This was a limited edition, coloured vinyl only, double A-sided 7", along with a cover of The Beatles' "Come Together". There was live concert film featuring the material, and accusations followed that perhaps Welller's handlers where trying to "pull a Rod Stewart" on his image. Studio 150 is a 2004 album by British artist Paul Weller. ...
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Rose Royce was a soul, funk, and disco band, formed by Motown writer/producer Norman Whitfield - previously most famous for his work with the Temptations - and featuring singer Rose Norwalt performing under the name Rose Royce. ...
Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1972 and consisting of four singers, all of whom are sisters: Kim, Debbie, Joni, and Kathy Sledge. ...
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His 2005 album As Is Now featured the singles "From The Floorboards Up", "Come On/Let's Go" and "Here's The Good News". Weller released a double live album titled Catch-Flame! on 12 June, 2006 with songs from both his solo work and his career with The Jam and The Style Council. As Is Now is Paul Wellers eighth studio album. ...
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In late 2006, the album Hit Parade was released. This collected together all the singles released by the Jam, Style Council and Weller during his solo career. Two versions of this album were released. A single disc with a selection from each stage of his career, and a four disc limited edition, which included every single released and came with a sixty four page booklet. However, the album did not include the new "Wild Blue Yonder" single, which was released around the same time. Hit Parade is a 2006 greatest hits boxset of Paul Wellers musical career. ...
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Legacy - Proving that interest still remained in his seminal days of the 1970s and 1980s, no less than three of his songs - two Style Council numbers and one song from The Jam - turned up on the soundtrack of 2001's hit British movie Billy Elliot, bringing him a new generation of fans to discover his music.
- His influence upon the 1990s generation of British guitar bands, coupled with his love of 1960's Mod-era music, had earned him the affectionate nickname "The Modfather", and the late 1990s saw him cement his position as one of Britain's major musical figures. In 1995 he collaborated with Oasis's guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher and none other than Paul McCartney to form a one-off 'super group' called The Smokin' Mojo Filters, releasing a charity version of The Beatles' hit "Come Together" in aid of Bosnian children.
- Evidence of his continued popularity was also provided by a poll run by the British national radio station Virgin Radio in December 2002 to find the top 100 British artists of all time. More than 25,000 listeners voted and in the final results revealed on 31 December, The Style Council came in at No. 97, Weller as a solo artist at No. 21 and The Jam at No. 5 - ahead of such acts as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Clash and Weller's own heroes, The Who and The Kinks.
- In February 2006 Paul Weller received the Lifetime Achievement award at the BRIT Awards. At the presentation, he played his solo tracks "From The Floorboards Up", "Come On"/"Let's Go", "The Changingman" and also The Jam's "Town Called Malice".
- With Steve White, Weller also set up a website called checkemlads.com following a chat with a fan Philly Morris who was going through cancer treatment in 2003. The cancer awareness website is now the most viewed cancer website by men in the UK.
- In 1983, The Jam broke The Beatles record of 7 singles in the Top 100 simultaneously. The Jam placed 14 singles in the same week. This happened when Polydor rushed to re-release their entire back catalogue following the split.
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Solo discography
Studio Albums Paul Weller is Paul Wellers first solo album, released in 1992. ...
Wild Wood was Paul Wellers second solo record, released in 1993. ...
Stanley Road is an album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. ...
Heavy Soul is an album by by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, originally release on the 5th August 1997. ...
Heliocentric is an album by Paul Weller, released 10 April 2000 in the UK. Track listing Hes The Keeper Frightened Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea Back In the Fire A Whales Tale Dust and Ricks Theres No Drinking After Youre Dead With Time & Temperance Picking Up...
Illumination is an album by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, released on 16 September 2002. ...
Studio 150 is a 2004 album by British artist Paul Weller. ...
As Is Now is Paul Wellers eighth studio album. ...
Compilation and Live Albums - Live Wood (1994) - #13 UK
- Modern Classics - The Greatest Hits (1998) - #7 UK
- Days Of Speed (2001) - #3 UK
- Fly On The Wall - B Sides And Rarities (2003) - #22 UK
- Catch-Flame! (2006) - #17 UK
- Hit Parade (2006) - #7 UK
Live Wood, released in 1994 was Paul Wellers first solo live album, comprising a collection of high energy and melodic numbers selected from his successful 1993/1994 tour. ...
Modern Classics - The Greatest Hits is a compilation album of music by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, originally released in 1998. ...
Days of Speed is Paul Wellers second live album, released on 8 October 2001 in the UK and 2 July 2002 in the US. Brand New Start The Loved Out Of The Sinking Clues English Rose Above The Clouds You Do Something To Me Amongst Butterflies Science Back In...
Fly on the Wall is a 2003 compilation album by British artist Paul Weller. ...
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Hit Parade is a 2006 greatest hits boxset of Paul Wellers musical career. ...
Re-Issues Stanley Road (10th Anniversary Edition) Paul weller is as influential an artist today as he has ever been. ...
Singles From Paul Weller Paul Weller is Paul Wellers first solo album, released in 1992. ...
- "Into Tomorrow" (as The Paul Weller Movement) (1991) - #36 UK
- "Uh Huh Oh Yeh" (1992) - #18 UK
- "Above The Clouds" (1992) - #47 UK
From Wild Wood Wild Wood was Paul Wellers second solo record, released in 1993. ...
- "Sunflower" (1993) - #16 UK
- "Wild Wood" (1993) - #14 UK
- "The Weaver" (1993) - #18 UK
- "Hung Up" (1994) - #11 UK
From Stanley Road Stanley Road is an album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. ...
- "Out Of The Sinking" (1994) - #20 UK
- "The Changingman" (1995) - #7 UK
- "You Do Something To Me" (1995) - #9 UK
- "Broken Stones" (1995) - #20 UK
- "Out Of The Sinking" re-issue (1996) - #16 UK
From Heavy Soul Heavy Soul is an album by by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, originally release on the 5th August 1997. ...
- "Peacock Suit" (1996) - #5 UK
- "Brushed" (1997) - #14 UK
- "Friday Street" (1997) - #21 UK
- "Mermaids" (1997) - #30 UK
From Modern Classics - The Greatest Hits Modern Classics - The Greatest Hits is a compilation album of music by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, originally released in 1998. ...
- "Brand New Start" (1998) - #16 UK
- "Wild Wood" re-release (1999) - #22 UK
From Heliocentric Heliocentric is an album by Paul Weller, released 10 April 2000 in the UK. Track listing Hes The Keeper Frightened Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea Back In the Fire A Whales Tale Dust and Ricks Theres No Drinking After Youre Dead With Time & Temperance Picking Up...
- "The Keeper" (2000) - Did Not Chart
- "Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea" (2000) - #44 UK
From Illumination Illumination is an album by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, released on 16 September 2002. ...
- "It's Written In The Stars" (2002) - #7 UK
- "Leafy Mysteries" (2002) - #23 UK
From Studio 150 Studio 150 is a 2004 album by British artist Paul Weller. ...
- "The Bottle" (2004) - #13 UK
- "Wishing On A Star" (2004) - #11 UK
- "Thinking Of You" (2004) - #18 UK
- "Early Morning Rain"/"Come Together" (2005) - #40 UK
From As is Now As Is Now is Paul Wellers eighth studio album. ...
- "From The Floorboards Up" (2005) - #6 UK
- "Come On/Let's Go" (2005) - #15 UK
- "Here's The Good News" (2005) - #21 UK
Non-album single - "Wild Blue Yonder" (2006) - #22 UK
External links
References Munn, Iain (2006). Mr Cool's Dream. The Complete History Of The Style Council. Wholepoint Publications. ISBN 0-9551443-0-2. |
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