Broadening Horizons (Speak Like A Child The Paris Match Have You Ever Had It Blue? Fairy Tales That Spiritual Feeling) Listen to the Best Style Council songs on Apple Music and Spotify and scroll down for our list.
In retrospect, however, the band amassed a sizable collection of fantastic pop music during their six-year career and their catalog is now ripe for reappraisal. In stark contrast to the fierce, mod-inspired punk-pop sound The Jam perfected, The Style Council’s music could be wilfully eclectic and some of it even alienated Weller’s loyal fanbase. Ostensibly a duo of Weller and former Dexy’s Midnight Runners keyboard player Mick Talbot, drummer Steve White played on most of their recordings, while additional musicians were drafted in as required. Unlike The Jam – effectively a hermetically-sealed rock trio – The Style Council were all about looseness and flexibility. Yet, while The Jam was Britain’s biggest band at that point, Weller had tired of the constant album-followed-by-tour treadmill and was determined his next project, The Style Council, would be a complete break with the past.
chart-topping album, The Gift, and a No.1 single in “Beat Surrender,” while their final tour included five sold-out shows at London’s Wembley Arena. When they finished at the end of 1982, the band went out at the very top, riding high with a U.K. It’s often said Paul Weller split The Jam at exactly the right time.
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