![]() When you label something, there’s always going to be someone with a certain set of rules in their head about it. You meet ten different people and they’ve all got a different idea of what it is. So they were working class soul boys with a bit of an attitude. And they were incredibly hostile to what they perceived as being the middle-class media. Pat Gilbert: Something that was alluring about the Style Council was that Paul and Mick were from working-class backgrounds. Especially bringing a bit of a soul element in was a little bit weird for some people. So I have a lot of respect for him from taking that brave leap of leaving one audience and hoping to pick up another.Īnd he did, but it was hard. He just kept wanting to grow as a musician. He wasn’t into just hanging onto whatever to keep it going. They’re like the Pacific Island Japanese troops.ĭee C Lee (vocals): My respect for Paul comes from the fact that he’d come from this very successful band, but was just about being a musician. Steve White (drummer): Some Jam fans still haven’t got over that split. They represented the liberation of adulthood that a lot of people were feeling. That was part of what made The Style Council quite attractive. They were moving from childhood to adulthood. Pat Gilbert: For fans of The Jam, their lives were changing. Gary Crowley (BBC DJ, producer Long Hot Summers): I started on the radio in 1982, so the only Jam single I played on the radio show when it had come out would’ve been the last one, “Beat Surrender.” So the Style Council were really the band that I associate with that period, along with Everything But the Girl, Haircut 100, the Smiths and Aztec Camera. Mick Talbot: It felt like a natural progression from a musical point of view, because I think at the tail end of The Jam, there were a lot of clues there with Paul’s writing. 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. 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. 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.
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