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Met Rick before and seen Bruce but Rick is a great fella and had time for everyone. Obviously they will never reform but an interview with the 3 at the same time would be amazing, even in separate rooms but imagine that. Somebody should try? Class artists.

now i get it - he doesn't get it - Alice is amazing because of the lyrics - Paul - it's got nothing do with radio - it;s an amazing song / lyrics - precious was brilliant song !

Haha, what a prick! Another "champagne socialist" multi millionaire who hasn't given any real social commentary since 1980. What a fecking bell end! 😂😂😂

What a knob

Did some mods stop customizing their scooters after a while?

I grew up listening to the jam, never realised weller was a tit !

THE best drummer of all time. I don't care about anyone else. Perfection in timing but always musical in feeling.

Cool

Weller just comes across as an idiot here, old grey multi millionaire trying to tap into 1970s anti establishment fever.

I hate paul

The jam were a band of their time and a great one, but they were boxed in by their style of song and PW needed to move on from that genre and he couldn’t do it in that setup. The style council were completely different and PW couldn’t have done that with Rick and Bruce. At the time it was a shock and a shame it ended but history has shown that Paul made the right decision. Paul is a driven and selfish person, he doesn’t listen to anybody and he is always moving forward ,BUT this is why Paul is relevant today and is looked upon as a genius. Rick and Bruce are good guys, but they had their time in the sun, they should feel themselves lucky to have made that music and been a massive part of it.

Seen me in this 😂

Someone asked me what’s my favourite Jam song (Which is impossible to say) and just to be awkward I said “Pop Art Poem” should’ve seen the confusion on his face..”Never heard of it” Ha ha

Beginners reached number 3 Den

Go Paul! Fuck small minded nationalism... there's a whole world out there.

Rick is one very cool man and humorous too. Very dry humoured!

I love that echoey interview! This is the first of it's kind I've ever seen and heard!

Tory for the british people

“I know I come from Woking and you say I'm a fraud” 🤔

Shame will not have a probably not have a union. From the Jam was amazing set-up. All artist have been infunced by other bands. I was a child of about 10 and the first Jam LP was In The City re-release in 1995 when I was 10. I wrote on the cover Is Skill. The first LP is still one of my fav Jam LPs. I like how raw it was is. It's probably why I got into punk. soul, reggae and ska along with stories in music.

Ah the multi millionaire living the high life whilst his fans sleep on the street. He ain't giving it away. Showbiz

After 5 mins of the most annoying repetitive music I've ever heard I switched off.

A true gent and the heartbeat of the greatest British band of my generation…

Wanker and past it

Great video 👍🏼

The one great thing about The Jam splitting when they did was/is that they were/are a fantastic, disciplined band frozen in time....a perfect band.

great drummer.

Top man, top drummer. Will love him til the day I die, bless him

👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍👍

Not many people in their mid sixties would be talking through their whole lives about about a career that ended by the time they were 22 . Its certainly unique .

the sound is a bit painful. - get an input from the mics/desk to camera. Don't use onboard.

The mic stand should be to Rick's left to stop it obscuring his face from the camera.

Pity about the edit when Rick was going to spill the beans.

Great interview Den Davis hilighting some good points from the time,really enjoyed the book

Rick sounds like Paul Whitehouse

Thank the lord for The Jam

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all the best to all Mods solid bond in my heart

It's telling that the edits start on this as Rick starts to really dig into the reasons why he feels the Jam split... 'bad' or no management of their recording career. Sure Polydor dictated their release schedule contractually but if the deal was up - as it was around this time with only one more album on the contract post the Gift (which Dig the New Breed's release essentially completed) then they were in the position to re-negotiate their deal with Polydor or leave and find a new deal with a new perhaps more artist friendly (major) label - Island say... Yes the Jam were a singles band - but their albums sold increasingly well and the industry was changing by 82 and 83 (successful bands taking longer between albums - not touring so much). The inference is that Weller had a few different reasons for leaving. A (sort of) solo deal being one of them.. if that hadn't have been on the table as an option by '82... then maybe he'd have stuck around but i feel there is a certain level of disengenuous on Rick's part for not just 'naming it'. He must know full-well these are the reasons. 1.the pressure of the treadmill 2. creative exhaustion on Weller's part with the Jam 3. wanting to try other things and R & B perhaps not having the 'chops' to realize this vision (this is arguable both ways...) 4. his profile as a singer songwriter giving him the opportuity to leave the band and re-sign to Polydor with a deal more favourable to his creative impulses (less touring). Financially as the main songwriter he was/still is earning more from the songs... that's the nature of the business... Rick fully understands this. A quick glance at say Snap's credits - 29 x tracks - Weller has full writing credits on 25 of the songs - Paul Weller / The Jam on x 1 track - 2 Foxton songs - 1 cover... The ongoing tension between them will stem back to Rick's percieved feelings of mis-management by JW... that's the nub of it.... most successful bands split up because of the writing credits.

Magnificent musician.

'promo sm'

His image was incredible, lonsdale sweatshirts, adidas or lonsdale boxing boots, Dunlop trainers, ma1 alpha bomber jacket, super cool shirts combined with three-button jackets, tailored denim jackets, basketball boots... Rick's image was SPECTACULAR, people talk a lot of Weller's look, but Rick was incredibly original 

God bless her

Mods are good

Keep the faith lads and lassies

Ulez will soon put a stop to that 😂😊

I'd rather listen to the sausages sizzling instead of this karaoke turn.

GREAT video as always!3❤👊

what is the scene at 2:14? He's gorgeous there!

Great video beautiful scoots keep the faith✊