If his best mate Liam Gallagher has been able to perform again after a 15 year break up ... Weller needs to do the same ..for the fans who put him in his place. No one will laugh at him..but he is running out of time with Foxton in Hospital. If one of the three go to join John Weller (Paul's manager and Dad) it's going to be more than going underground.. a opportunity which will quickly demolished. To be Paul Weller Must be a wonderful thing ...
@@johnnyuppal7878 No way! Weller was right on never reforming The Jam, leave the legacy to be with the three of them as they were, young, finding their feet and knocking out classic music...keep it pure.
@@LeChatNoir-z8h Good point ... and yes they were young and finding their way...BUT if you was to reflect upon the songs and lyrics then one question. How did a person who was about 20 + have so much in-depth understanding of the trailers and tribulations of life. Too many examples but A Bomb in Wardour Street, Private Hell, that's entertainment. The Legacy will only remain if the new generation have passed it on. By a possible limited Arena dates and the media frenzy ..people who have never even heard about the Jam , would then be inspired to find out what the fuss is about. It could be a few dates and proceeds be donated to AA charity. By doing that people often deprived, homeless, mentally not all there .. will understand , appreciate, and most importantly remember how The Jam helped. The world with social media have generated a society which needs a Start ..what you give is what you get.
@@johnnyuppal7878 it would be awful if they reformed... can you imagine?! No way. Liam isn't his 'best mate' - what are you talking about? It's never gonna happen and it shouldn't ever happen.
@@timhall3575 Agree, I like to have those fond memories of seeing the band in the late 1970's as they were. A lot of those songs were lyrically about youth, I know weller wouldn't want to be singing those lyrics to When you're Young at his age. They were great on record and live, especially that 77-80 period for me.
38 years later and I still havn't forgiven him 😂 I was lucky enough to live through these happy care free days , saw them live 10 times and they really were the best f*cking band in the world at the time. Their music was the soundtrack of my youth and still relevant today. Great tunes and I still think Paul Weller is England finest lyricist. Funnily enough I met him a few months after the Jam split and really wanted to berate him but I just turned I to an awe struck gibbery jelly ! Was he right to split them up at the peak of their power ? I didn't see it that way at the time and tried desperately not to like the style council but hey he wrote some great tunes and continues to this day. Paul was the brain but Bruce and Rick the heart and lungs and I salute you all THANK YOU!
A new decade was dawning - Weller split teh Jam at just the right time before it got stale with the àngry young man'sound of the 70's that the Jam had . Some of the final hits they had just sounded like Style Council songs to me with horn sections and female harmonies ..Beat Surrender etc
Go see "From the Jam," I think next year could be their final tour, I saw them a couple of years back and it was one of the best gigs I had ever been too. Hastings vocals are spot on.
@@paulthomas3374 Good to hear it Paul. I saw an interview last week with Bruce, he was talking about the Australia tour next year and said it would be his last. Not sure if he was saying last tour in Oz or last tour full stop. I will try to go to a couple of gigs in 2024 just in case. Great nights.
Respect...Thought he was a nutter at the time, but now I know he was right.The band's integrity remained intact and noone can ever say that there was a moment in which they went into decline.
what he didnt want to see happen to the jam, he did with the style council, at the end nobody gave a hoot about the council, sent weller into the wilderness
' It doesn't really matter ...Jam was the 70's TSC was the Eighties and solo since then . Great albums in all decades . TSC were far more experimental as a collective the the Jam . I like all their albums in all the genres they experimented with . There were no bad albums , but they kept things moving forward and just didn't keep churning out pop music - the fact that a big mainstream audience didn't move with them was neither here nor there .They did their thing.
I wasn't a British music fan in 1982. I'm an American who grew up in the 80's, yet had no idea who Paul Weller was until the early 2000s, when I heard my Ever Changing Moods on an alternative radio station. This was the era of iTunes and I imediately began listening to and learning about the Style Council and The Jam, downloading and getting my hands on as domestically available greatest hits CDs I could. The Best Of The Jam was the only CD I listened to my my car for several months. So,I don't know what it was like to live through his early career and experience how The Jam galvanized young music fans, nor did I experiece the heartbreak of them breaking up. Since my late discovery of Weller's music, my respect for him and his music and only grown. It only took me a few years to accquire everything he's done and have since bought every new release that comes out. I've seen him live 3 times and can't wait to see him live again when he finally comes back to the States again in the fall. From that perspective, I do believe he did the right thing by breaking up The Jam and continues to persue his own muse by his refusal to reform the Jam. Even though I wish more Americans were hip to his music, I'm glad that his fanbase is small here as I can get tickets to his show and don't have to spend a fortune to get good seats. I'll be right up at the front!
Still to this day will not forgive my parents, for not letting me see the final gigs at Wembley in 82. I was only 12 when they split, my brother who was 19 went to pretty much all of their concerts. The Gift was one of the first albums i bought as a kid, what a great musical education to have. At the age of 43, i still get a massive buzz from The Jam & TSC. One of my ambitions was to see Weller in the states, this happened in July 2013 in NYC. The man is a National treasure..............
Paul's perfect in this interview. He's young and honest with ideals. He's sincere and shows real integrity. To break up the band through instinctive feeling takes guts. I respect that.
The greatest band of all time. There is nobody better than them. I'm only 19. They were the first band i ever heard, they're also the best ever. I know it won't happen, but i'd give a limb for them to reform!
Love The Jam and was too young to see them at the time but the decision to split was the right one as is the one not too reform. The songs were full of the energy, anger and idealism of youth. Can't be recreated now.
I have a big love for The Jam as Going Underground was the UK number 1 when I was born, so im too young to have been knowledgeable at the time, but I grew up loving his work and im proud to have been born at the time were the most popular record in the UK was by The Jam. He seems to be on the 'sniff' here in this video, fair play he was right though and The Jam were moving more towards a soul influence with Beat Surrender and The Bitterest Pill and as the main songwriter he followed his dreams and The Jam remained superb and The Style Council were amazing, Job Done Paul!
sometimes you need to be selfish and look after number 1 to be able to achieve what you want out of life! you only live once! i think he is an inspiration!
How fucking cool can you be?? Break up the biggest band in Britain, at the top of their game?? Fucking phenomenal, no-one else has had the balls to do that, before or since. Fair fucking play to him, he was 24, and he made a totally new career for himself. He's so fucking great, here. I fucking love him.
Well said, 9 out 10 bands reform for money Weller doesnt need that either, i can understand people wanting them to reform, but The Jam are one of the few bands to call a day at their peek best to leave it that way.
A bygone era best left with fond memories , By the time of the early 80's the youth rivalry of mod / rocker / skinhead / punk, was phasing out. Fashions were changing along with the emerging 'electropop' , I couldn't imagine the jam staying together with such changes.
Top band. They split at about the right time, that being; the era where the youth culture of the day was 'mods / rockers / skinheads / punks , were all going out of fashion phase. How else could 'The Jam' have re-invented itself. All respect to them as a band, Mr Weller a genius , "Down in the tube station at midnight" etc 😃
Yeah people don't realise that just a year later, in 1983, music, fashion and culture were changing. The Jam wouldn't have come through that. Just look up any of the charts from January 1983 onwards. Totally different style of music from totally different groups. An example of this is seeing how out of place Weller looks during the recording of the Band Aid single. Subculture styles and audiences are fickle, a band gets about 3-4 years before the mainstream audience cycle changes
Great band. Still listen to the jam today. It’s just a shame Paul didn’t just stay friends with the others. I know he might think they will just keep saying let’s get back together. But he could of just said let’s just be friends and that’s it. No nice dumping friends that was there for you all them years.
His answer would be that they were never friends in the first place. I do agree though, there's no harm in remaining civil, however much he may have slagged them (particularly Rick) off in print over the years.
Already had his style council mac on. Obviously, he was ready for a change no-one wanted the jam to split apart from Weller. I can't understand why he gets criticised for leading hie life the way he sees fit. The music is still there if that is what you want to hear, but he has made plenty of great music since. Hurrah, for his ever changing moods.
I remember a lot of people being very bitter and upset about Weller breaking the Jam up. But looking back, he did make the right choice at the right time. I think it would have been a step too far for Weller to present the Style Council music under the Jam umbrella. I think he would have got a way with the first few singles as Jam singles but after that I don't think The Jam fans wouldn't have been able to relate to what he was doing and I think Weller must have known this.
Trouser Press & WLIR played English Rose.... little did I know what the future held.......Mod Fun, Leslie then Paul & later still Homeless & a Ham n Cheese Hero.
The Jam are my NO.1 band,and always will be.The thing is they would still have probably put out A Solid Bond In Your Heart,Speak Like A Child,Long Hot Summer ect.Sometimes you just have to move on.I think Weller knows what he's doing and went with it.
If you hear Rick Buckler talking scathingly about the early Style Council Sound , I don't share your belief that these songs could have been done as PW wanted them , by the Jam. TSC were particularly a collective of rotating musicians with a very free and open agenda .
@@Fractalite Yes i agree to a point.Why carry on just for the sake of it.Weller wanted a new direction musically,and he done that with TSC.I do like your comment .
What foresight though. Quit at the top and everyone will remember and respect The Jam. Always remember the NME poll of the year, that The Jam splitting up was ahead of the Falklands war. 👍
All great rockn'roll bands should make the decision that Weller made: to go out before they lose that special young passion and inspired energy that you only have once.
His solo career has been very successful even though he has a cult following here in the States. Paul revealed in another interview about 1982 that: "It dawned on me that had we grown bigger we'd end up like all those 'obsolete bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen' that have overstayed their welcome." "We didn't want to go on for years being a washed up band." PW said something like that so for him it was the right thing to do.
There's no pride to swallow, any band that stays together at the top for more than 3 years have done great, The Jam exceeded this and more. Weller was right to move on, he doesn't need any 'comeback', there's no way he would have flourished staying with the Jam. As John Lennon said when everyone kept asking him to reform The Beatles, 'it's just a band , it's nothing important !' Get over it
The stuff they were doing when they broke up was much different then only a few years before, I liked it the most. I'm not a Brit and am probably out of the loop on this but it seems like Weller had a falling out with the other two and it's very bitter. It's a shame because I love the harmony of his voice with Foxton's. Oh well life goes on, just don't be so bitter Dude!
Taped it too, long since gone., must have watched it back many times, I could almost lip sync what he was saying. Sad days, but the sun rose again, with other strange aural delights to experience. Now 38 yrs later, I think he was almost right, one more album though, could have been good,, sound had changed immensely, fk those horns off tho!
The irony was that he didn't what the Jam to go on too long and become bland and lose their edge. But that's exactly what he did with the Style Council. They started well with a couple of good albums, but who remembers how they fizzled out with albums and singles languishing way down the charts.
I agree. However The Style Council was really just an extension of where The Jam was heading had Weller not pulled the plug. In hindsight I'm glad he didn't drag The Jam through the pretentious jazz crap of The Style Council.
Elvis didn't slide into mediocrity. His voice was at it's best in the 70s. Elvis didn't slide. He was pushed by forces he was unable to control. Don't forget that he was a "product". When you're a product you're not in control.
Thank God I saw this. I'm fucking skint this month, so I'll just contact Paul to help spread his huge, centralised wealth, instead of doing away with him...
@@alanwhite461 Doh! That wouldn't exclude him enquiring about a prep school. he'd need to find the selection criteria....there may be a waiting list ....also the parents may have to be able to demonstrate a long term commitment to The Anglican or Catholic Faith, and to have played a role in the local community in some charitable role. None of which, at this point, he would be able to do. Also, he might have to move house to get in the right catchment area for the particular school he wants. That aside, he did send his kids to private school, no getting away from it.
@@Willsey I think the celebrities of the left being shown to act in this double-handed way...I mean, Weller, ferchristsake! ... is a big reason why there's collapse of faith in the left in general. Even funnier, Foxton sent his kids to Eton.
ballsy to unplug the only successful musical creation he'd known to that point. never afraid to take the risks but collect the accolades when they surface and endure the bumps and bangs as well. Weller was a wise 24.
Fucking mega book coming out on The Jam in September called Thick As Thieves . Right up your strasse if you were one of The Jam Army who lived and breathed The Jam, £ 6.99 on amazon right now , They won't reform but they still change lives.
I mean Oasis weren’t exactly about a message, and they never tried or pretended to be, so not really the same. I guess you are alluding to the quality of the music, they have some great songs after the first two albums
its a good job he broke up The Jam..a few of the later songs were starting to turn into the sort of tedious funk/soft jazz/soul that The Style Council would become..so it WAS a good idea to break up at the end of 1982 really.
Have you noticed how it's the English bands that have this viewpoint, Weller, Cornwell, Morrissey? Bands split for various reasons, who splits because they are too successful? British bands that's who!
point was it was easy for him to break up the jam as he owned 95percent of the writing credits the other two didnt, i wonder if he would have done so had he not been financially secure.So much for his comment about sharing power and wealth.
Today ..Aug 2024 one of Paul Wellers best friends Liam Gallagher & his brother announce a reformation tour sending people into a frenzy. The Oasis brothers said they would never reform but now they have. There is no shame about this and as Bruce Foxton is not very well in hospital ..I hope Weller would understand the importance of giving back to his fans who have supported him for 40 odd years that should one member pass away ..he will miss the opportunity to do exactly what his buddy Liam Gallagher has done. Grow some balls Paul..
Its not about pride and that. Weller says he's not one for nostalgia. He doesn't need to get back with Rick and Bruce. All you have to do is go to see Weller live; he does some of the Jam's songs. Then you need to go and see From The Jam (touring this year) Then you'll pretty much see the Jam, in 2012. Saying you want them back, wont bring them back. The Jam is dead for them, they cant bring it back, its gone and thats it. But we can remember, and listen to their music in 2012! THE JAM FOREVER!
The Jam were and always will be Legendary and like Paul says it was a group effort that made it that way. Still I always feel their was far more that could have been sung before Paul pulled the plug. 36 years on and it still feels like a bad move, not because it resulted in the Style Council (My Favourite Shop and Café Bleu have some great tracks on them that still rate today) but loosing the edge The Jam had forged, still irks Badly. Guess it Always will, if that's going out winning....then winning bites
And look at his way now. The people would love him to at least speak to the lads but full of himself. At least they doing their thing but I hate when bands split and it’s always lies to the public. They got you where you are so tell the real reasons why you split. The others still speak and played together. Tell the truth Paul.
weller was right to split the Jam when he did in december 1982-there music still means something and has not been done to death over the decades-look how the rolling stones have corrupted their sixties heyday by constantly returning to their vomit like a dog
@2bsom1 Listen to the interview he makes a comment about wealth being shared which i think is hypocritical, as for foxton and bucklers careers after its not relevant to my comment.
Nothing stings quite as much as drifting into mediocrity..... The Jam were a popular and successful band it would have been such a shame to spoil that. Of course many groups do go on to have long and successful careers repeating the same material year after year with a solid core of dedicated fans but, considering the energy and politics involved, that wouldn't have been possible for the Jam. Don't get me wrong though it's actually great to see some of the guys of that era still going and producing wonderful pieces but, nowadays, the 'music theory experts' are never far away ... lol?
Exactly- that's socialism/liberalism for you. Love The Jam and some of Weller's solo stuff but not his naive political views but having said that, everyone's entitled to their own. How tolerant of me.
@ddjdd wfggb Wake up?? But, that's what I do every weekday morning at 5:00 a.m. But you know what- your post has got me thinking that maybe that's exactly what I'm doing wrong. So I'll stop doing just that and stay in bed till half past noon, go on the drink, collect free social money at hard-working tax-payers expense and pass out somewhere. Yeah, screw responsibility and all that nonsense! This so-called socialism's gonna be great. Now get working, boy and be sure to pay those (big) taxes that our good politicians are going to distribute to the likes of yours truly. In the meantime, I need a drink- who's buying?
+MusicalElitist I just did that - I quit my job and society and now I'm all signed up and getting my monthly free money. My conditions are rougher now but at least the money's free. It's made me very open-minded and irresponsible as well. Thanks, mate, for helping to liberate me from my former stupid-self.
Well love him or loath him,watching this brought it back,great band,he went on to the council,but to say he really had no plans when he called time on the jam is a joke,he had it all planed video made for S L A C ,so crap paul ,just hard for you to say I want to move on,I loved the council and the rest of it, who knows what would have happened if they carried on (answers on a postcard to)Great part of my life any how.
In this particular clip, I hear utter selfishness which doesn't surprise me, all he does in free time is shop in Waitrose apparently these days, so he says, wow!
Wealth re- distribution eh? Weller's career has never even come close to reaching the same heights. He is strictly a UK phenomenon, his solo stuff is average at best and Style Council was the result of someone turning 25 himself! Looks like a young man with a huge chip on his shoulder here, he still hasn't brushed it off.
Sorry, you couldn't have been more wrong. You shouldn't count yourself a fan without first accepting the fact that he's not a one-trick pony who could only churn out angsty and shouty anthems to perpetual 18-year-olds. Paul's a white artiste dripping in black soul, which, thank his wisdom, found full liberation in the Style Council. Poncy? Definitely not! Isn't exploring and expanding one's artistry a true measure of an artiste? He proved that after in his post-Jam chapters.
Such a naive interview. Weller must look back at this now and cringe 🤣 To be fair most young people start off as socialists and if you get successful then you realise it is nonsense.
You having a laugh ,just because he's not that snarling angry young man anymore which by the way I loved ,he went totally back to his mod roots with the council ,different direction to which definitely would not have worked as the jam , his solo career takes off with his 1st album some superb songs lyrically and musically Stanley road an absolutely incredible set of songs and as he has got older his writing has matured and moved on he doesn't look back seen him last week at the age of 66 he gave a set list of pure quality and energy ,so you may need to broaden your musical taste as your missing out on Britain's finest lyricist period
@@paulwilliams-rk6fy I did actually say " Just my opinion" if you read, which i am entitled to.It is actually possible to like the Jam as a stonking 3 piece band , without particularly caring for PW . My musical tastes still remain wide and varied from Rush, AC/DC, etc, PIL , Stranglers. etc, through to stuff like SKA, Reggae ( proper Caribbean stuff such as the late great Augustus Pablo.) i could go on but dont have time, am not actually having a laugh.
‘I wouldn’t say they were happy about it.’ The understatement of the century.
If his best mate Liam Gallagher has been able to perform again after a 15 year break up ... Weller needs to do the same ..for the fans who put him in his place. No one will laugh at him..but he is running out of time with Foxton in Hospital. If one of the three go to join John Weller (Paul's manager and Dad) it's going to be more than going underground.. a opportunity which will quickly demolished. To be Paul Weller Must be a wonderful thing ...
@@johnnyuppal7878 No way! Weller was right on never reforming The Jam, leave the legacy to be with the three of them as they were, young, finding their feet and knocking out classic music...keep it pure.
@@LeChatNoir-z8h Good point ... and yes they were young and finding their way...BUT if you was to reflect upon the songs and lyrics then one question. How did a person who was about 20 + have so much in-depth understanding of the trailers and tribulations of life. Too many examples but A Bomb in Wardour Street, Private Hell, that's entertainment.
The Legacy will only remain if the new generation have passed it on. By a possible limited Arena dates and the media frenzy ..people who have never even heard about the Jam , would then be inspired to find out what the fuss is about. It could be a few dates and proceeds be donated to AA charity. By doing that people often deprived, homeless, mentally not all there .. will understand , appreciate, and most importantly remember how The Jam helped. The world with social media have generated a society which needs a Start ..what you give is what you get.
@@johnnyuppal7878 it would be awful if they reformed... can you imagine?! No way. Liam isn't his 'best mate' - what are you talking about? It's never gonna happen and it shouldn't ever happen.
@@timhall3575 Agree, I like to have those fond memories of seeing the band in the late 1970's as they were. A lot of those songs were lyrically about youth, I know weller wouldn't want to be singing those lyrics to When you're Young at his age. They were great on record and live, especially that 77-80 period for me.
The Jam is one of the best pop bands of all time and my personal favorite.
38 years later and I still havn't forgiven him 😂 I was lucky enough to live through these happy care free days , saw them live 10 times and they really were the best f*cking band in the world at the time. Their music was the soundtrack of my youth and still relevant today. Great tunes and I still think Paul Weller is England finest lyricist. Funnily enough I met him a few months after the Jam split and really wanted to berate him but I just turned I to an awe struck gibbery jelly !
Was he right to split them up at the peak of their power ? I didn't see it that way at the time and tried desperately not to like the style council but hey he wrote some great tunes and continues to this day.
Paul was the brain but Bruce and Rick the heart and lungs and I salute you all
THANK YOU!
A new decade was dawning - Weller split teh Jam at just the right time before it got stale with the àngry young man'sound of the 70's that the Jam had . Some of the final hits they had just sounded like Style Council songs to me with horn sections and female harmonies ..Beat Surrender etc
Go see "From the Jam," I think next year could be their final tour, I saw them a couple of years back and it was one of the best gigs I had ever been too. Hastings vocals are spot on.
@@harveysmith100 seen them a good few times over the years very good they are too
@@paulthomas3374 Good to hear it Paul. I saw an interview last week with Bruce, he was talking about the Australia tour next year and said it would be his last. Not sure if he was saying last tour in Oz or last tour full stop. I will try to go to a couple of gigs in 2024 just in case. Great nights.
Respect...Thought he was a nutter at the time, but now I know he was right.The band's integrity remained intact and noone can ever say that there was a moment in which they went into decline.
what he didnt want to see happen to the jam, he did with the style council, at the end nobody gave a hoot about the council, sent weller into the wilderness
Alan Gregg I think that Weller was very brave to split up The Jam, so it wasnt used simply as a cash cow!
' It doesn't really matter ...Jam was the 70's TSC was the Eighties and solo since then . Great albums in all decades . TSC were far more experimental as a collective the the Jam . I like all their albums in all the genres they experimented with . There were no bad albums , but they kept things moving forward and just didn't keep churning out pop music - the fact that a big mainstream audience didn't move with them was neither here nor there .They did their thing.
Paul could have made all the new music with the Jam
the jam were one of the best bands going and still sound good to this day
A good reason to split while at the peak.
At the end of the day, he'll be remembered for The Jam.
Spot on. TSC was good band, but not a patch on The Jam.
I wasn't a British music fan in 1982. I'm an American who grew up in the 80's, yet had no idea who Paul Weller was until
the early 2000s, when I heard my Ever Changing Moods on an alternative radio station. This was the era of iTunes
and I imediately began listening to and learning about the Style Council and The Jam, downloading and getting my hands
on as domestically available greatest hits CDs I could. The Best Of The Jam was the only CD I listened to my my car
for several months. So,I don't know what it was like to live through his early career and experience
how The Jam galvanized young music fans, nor did I experiece the heartbreak of them breaking up.
Since my late discovery of Weller's music, my respect for him and his music and only grown. It only took me
a few years to accquire everything he's done and have since bought every new release that comes out.
I've seen him live 3 times and can't wait to see him live again when he finally comes back to the States again in the fall.
From that perspective, I do believe he did the right thing by breaking up The Jam and continues to persue his own muse
by his refusal to reform the Jam. Even though I wish more Americans were hip to his music, I'm glad
that his fanbase is small here as I can get tickets to his show and don't have to spend a fortune to
get good seats. I'll be right up at the front!
I remember watching this interview and went to school the next day...depressed
Still one of best UK bands the records timeless
Still to this day will not forgive my parents, for not letting me see the final gigs at Wembley in 82. I was only 12 when they split, my brother who was 19 went to pretty much all of their concerts. The Gift was one of the first albums i bought as a kid, what a great musical education to have. At the age of 43, i still get a massive buzz from The Jam & TSC. One of my ambitions was to see Weller in the states, this happened in July 2013 in NYC. The man is a National treasure..............
Paul's perfect in this interview. He's young and honest with ideals. He's sincere and shows real integrity. To break up the band through instinctive feeling takes guts. I respect that.
Fk your comments
I would say, a tad selfish tbh. He dropped them.
The greatest band of all time. There is nobody better than them. I'm only 19. They were the first band i ever heard, they're also the best ever.
I know it won't happen, but i'd give a limb for them to reform!
They were great but there have many better.
Go and see "From the Jam." Next year could be your last chance. Hastings vocals are spot on and I was there in the seventies
This brings back memories (sad ones) - I remember watching this interview at the time.
Tyne tees TV 📺 bud
Love The Jam and was too young to see them at the time but the decision to split was the right one as is the one not too reform. The songs were full of the energy, anger and idealism of youth. Can't be recreated now.
Fascinating blast from the past.
'Well that's aload of crap init' love that response from Weller. Ridiculous question
I have a big love for The Jam as Going Underground was the UK number 1 when I was born, so im too young to have been knowledgeable at the time, but I grew up loving his work and im proud to have been born at the time were the most popular record in the UK was by The Jam. He seems to be on the 'sniff' here in this video, fair play he was right though and The Jam were moving more towards a soul influence with Beat Surrender and The Bitterest Pill and as the main songwriter he followed his dreams and The Jam remained superb and The Style Council were amazing, Job Done Paul!
sometimes you need to be selfish and look after number 1 to be able to achieve what you want out of life! you only live once! i think he is an inspiration!
How fucking cool can you be?? Break up the biggest band in Britain, at the top of their game?? Fucking phenomenal, no-one else has had the balls to do that, before or since. Fair fucking play to him, he was 24, and he made a totally new career for himself. He's so fucking great, here. I fucking love him.
in other words he was an utter "fuckstooge"
Umm, Sting did, with the Police back in '83.
@Labyrinth1999NZ And they were the biggest band in the world. Even cooler and ballsier.
A Jam reunion- one that will never happen.
@@duffbaker9554 unless one of them are no longer alive ... That is the one thing we can bet your life on.
Well said, 9 out 10 bands reform for money Weller doesnt need that either, i can understand people wanting them to reform, but The Jam are one of the few bands to call a day at their peek best to leave it that way.
A bygone era best left with fond memories , By the time of the early 80's the youth rivalry of mod / rocker / skinhead / punk, was phasing out. Fashions were changing along with the emerging 'electropop' , I couldn't imagine the jam staying together with such changes.
Top band.
They split at about the right time, that being; the era where the youth culture of the day was 'mods / rockers / skinheads / punks , were all going out of fashion phase.
How else could 'The Jam' have re-invented itself.
All respect to them as a band, Mr Weller a genius , "Down in the tube station at midnight" etc 😃
Yeah people don't realise that just a year later, in 1983, music, fashion and culture were changing. The Jam wouldn't have come through that. Just look up any of the charts from January 1983 onwards. Totally different style of music from totally different groups. An example of this is seeing how out of place Weller looks during the recording of the Band Aid single. Subculture styles and audiences are fickle, a band gets about 3-4 years before the mainstream audience cycle changes
Great band. Still listen to the jam today. It’s just a shame Paul didn’t just stay friends with the others. I know he might think they will just keep saying let’s get back together. But he could of just said let’s just be friends and that’s it. No nice dumping friends that was there for you all them years.
His answer would be that they were never friends in the first place. I do agree though, there's no harm in remaining civil, however much he may have slagged them (particularly Rick) off in print over the years.
Already had his style council mac on. Obviously, he was ready for a change no-one wanted the jam to split apart from Weller. I can't understand why he gets criticised for leading hie life the way he sees fit. The music is still there if that is what you want to hear, but he has made plenty of great music since. Hurrah, for his ever changing moods.
If the three got back together they would sell every stadium in seconds not minutes or hours fact the greatest band in the world ever
Vocally it would sound shit though.
are you dumping the other two?
I remember a lot of people being very bitter and upset about Weller breaking the Jam up. But looking back, he did make the right choice at the right time. I think it would have been a step too far for Weller to present the Style Council music under the Jam umbrella. I think he would have got a way with the first few singles as Jam singles but after that I don't think The Jam fans wouldn't have been able to relate to what he was doing and I think Weller must have known this.
Trouser Press & WLIR played
English Rose.... little did I know what the future held.......Mod Fun, Leslie then Paul & later still Homeless & a Ham n Cheese Hero.
The Jam are my NO.1 band,and always will be.The thing is they would still have probably put out A Solid Bond In Your Heart,Speak Like A Child,Long Hot Summer ect.Sometimes you just have to move on.I think Weller knows what he's doing and went with it.
If you hear Rick Buckler talking scathingly about the early Style Council Sound , I don't share your belief that these songs could have been done as PW wanted them , by the Jam. TSC were particularly a collective of rotating musicians with a very free and open agenda .
@@Fractalite Yes i agree to a point.Why carry on just for the sake of it.Weller wanted a new direction musically,and he done that with TSC.I do like your comment .
What foresight though. Quit at the top and everyone will remember and respect The Jam. Always remember the NME poll of the year, that The Jam splitting up was ahead of the Falklands war. 👍
And all the golden faces are aged under 25
All great rockn'roll bands should make the decision that Weller made: to go out before they lose that special young passion and inspired energy that you only have once.
They didn't end, the other 2 carried on as a tribute act.
he was wiser then than he is now!
His solo career has been very successful even though he has a cult following here in the States. Paul revealed in another interview about 1982 that: "It dawned on me that had we grown bigger we'd end up like all those 'obsolete bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen' that have overstayed their welcome." "We didn't want to go on for years being a washed up band." PW said something like that so for him it was the right thing to do.
He f dumped them on the skip
There's no pride to swallow, any band that stays together at the top for more than 3 years have done great, The Jam exceeded this and more. Weller was right to move on, he doesn't need any 'comeback', there's no way he would have flourished staying with the Jam. As John Lennon said when everyone kept asking him to reform The Beatles, 'it's just a band , it's nothing important !' Get over it
They split at right time gutted at the time but it was right thing to do they are still untouchable
I think Weller was the real All Mod Con
A very sad day that!
The stuff they were doing when they broke up was much different then only a few years before, I liked it the most. I'm not a Brit and am probably out of the loop on this but it seems like Weller had a falling out with the other two and it's very bitter.
It's a shame because I love the harmony of his voice with Foxton's. Oh well life goes on, just don't be so bitter Dude!
Taped it too, long since gone., must have watched it back many times, I could almost lip sync what he was saying. Sad days, but the sun rose again, with other strange aural delights to experience. Now 38 yrs later, I think he was almost right, one more album though, could have been good,, sound had changed immensely, fk those horns off tho!
The irony was that he didn't what the Jam to go on too long and become bland and lose their edge. But that's exactly what he did with the Style Council. They started well with a couple of good albums, but who remembers how they fizzled out with albums and singles languishing way down the charts.
I agree. However The Style Council was really just an extension of where The Jam was heading had Weller not pulled the plug. In hindsight I'm glad he didn't drag The Jam through the pretentious jazz crap of The Style Council.
Elvis didn't slide into mediocrity. His voice was at it's best in the 70s. Elvis didn't slide. He was pushed by forces he was unable to control. Don't forget that he was a "product". When you're a product you're not in control.
Elvis was always brilliant..
Thank God I saw this. I'm fucking skint this month, so I'll just contact Paul to help spread his huge, centralised wealth, instead of doing away with him...
I love the Jam but these wealthy socialists will not give up their dosh.
@@jayrox40 champagne Socialists, the very worst kind!! Loved the Jam however.
Directly after this interview, Weller retreated to his upscale Baker Street apartment to enquire about private schooling for his first born.
His first kid wasn't born for 8 years after this.
Just like all the champagne socialists
@@alanwhite461 Doh! That wouldn't exclude him enquiring about a prep school. he'd need to find the selection criteria....there may be a waiting list ....also the parents may have to be able to demonstrate a long term commitment to The Anglican or Catholic Faith, and to have played a role in the local community in some charitable role. None of which, at this point, he would be able to do. Also, he might have to move house to get in the right catchment area for the particular school he wants. That aside, he did send his kids to private school, no getting away from it.
@@Willsey I think the celebrities of the left being shown to act in this double-handed way...I mean, Weller, ferchristsake! ... is a big reason why there's collapse of faith in the left in general. Even funnier, Foxton sent his kids to Eton.
ballsy to unplug the only successful musical creation he'd known to that point. never afraid to take the risks but collect the accolades when they surface and endure the bumps and bangs as well. Weller was a wise 24.
Fucking mega book coming out on The Jam in September called Thick As Thieves . Right up your strasse if you were one of The Jam Army who lived and breathed The Jam, £ 6.99 on amazon right now , They won't reform but they still change lives.
Oasis should have done the same after Knebworth !
I mean Oasis weren’t exactly about a message, and they never tried or pretended to be, so not really the same. I guess you are alluding to the quality of the music, they have some great songs after the first two albums
its a good job he broke up The Jam..a few of the later songs were starting to turn into the sort of tedious funk/soft jazz/soul that The Style Council would become..so it WAS a good idea to break up at the end of 1982 really.
Have you noticed how it's the English bands that have this viewpoint, Weller, Cornwell, Morrissey? Bands split for various reasons, who splits because they are too successful? British bands that's who!
Rick and Bruce should have started From The Jam in 83.
It’s like when Washington left for Mount Vernon, innit?
point was it was easy for him to break up the jam as he owned 95percent of the writing credits the other two didnt, i wonder if he would have done so had he not been financially secure.So much for his comment about sharing power and wealth.
Today ..Aug 2024 one of Paul Wellers best friends Liam Gallagher & his brother announce a reformation tour sending people into a frenzy.
The Oasis brothers said they would never reform but now they have.
There is no shame about this and as Bruce Foxton is not very well in hospital ..I hope Weller would understand the importance of giving back to his fans who have supported him for 40 odd years that should one member pass away ..he will miss the opportunity to do exactly what his buddy Liam Gallagher has done. Grow some balls Paul..
Its not about pride and that. Weller says he's not one for nostalgia. He doesn't need to get back with Rick and Bruce. All you have to do is go to see Weller live; he does some of the Jam's songs. Then you need to go and see From The Jam (touring this year) Then you'll pretty much see the Jam, in 2012.
Saying you want them back, wont bring them back. The Jam is dead for them, they cant bring it back, its gone and thats it. But we can remember, and listen to their music in 2012!
THE JAM FOREVER!
The Jam were and always will be Legendary and like Paul says it was a group effort that made it that way. Still I always feel their was far more that could have been sung before Paul pulled the plug. 36 years on and it still feels like a bad move, not because it resulted in the Style Council (My Favourite Shop and Café Bleu have some great tracks on them that still rate today) but loosing the edge The Jam had forged, still irks Badly. Guess it Always will, if that's going out winning....then winning bites
Seems he owns the band Name and wont even let Bruce and Rick use it and have to performl as From The Jam.
Given that he wrote and sang nearly all the songs, why should they call themselves the Jam without him? It'd be like the Police without Sting.
kow to play
And look at his way now. The people would love him to at least speak to the lads but full of himself. At least they doing their thing but I hate when bands split and it’s always lies to the public. They got you where you are so tell the real reasons why you split. The others still speak and played together. Tell the truth Paul.
weller was right to split the Jam when he did in december 1982-there music still means something and has not been done to death over the decades-look how the rolling stones have corrupted their sixties heyday by constantly returning to their vomit like a dog
@2bsom1 Listen to the interview he makes a comment about wealth being shared which i think is hypocritical, as for foxton and bucklers careers after its not relevant to my comment.
Threw the two best rythem section in pop under the bus. Shame on you.
Could have chosen somewere more cheerful to conduct this interview....must have been bloody freezing!!!
It's was at whitley Bay on the northern coast of the England 🏴 did to gigs at the ice rink
Nothing stings quite as much as drifting into mediocrity..... The Jam were a popular and successful band it would have been such a shame to spoil that. Of course many groups do go on to have long and successful careers repeating the same material year after year with a solid core of dedicated fans but, considering the energy and politics involved, that wouldn't have been possible for the Jam. Don't get me wrong though it's actually great to see some of the guys of that era still going and producing wonderful pieces but, nowadays, the 'music theory experts' are never far away ... lol?
Sure, Paul. take the money from those who have earned it and give it to those that have not!
Exactly- that's socialism/liberalism for you. Love The Jam and some of Weller's solo stuff but not his naive political views but having said that, everyone's entitled to their own. How tolerant of me.
Vambo , Pleb
@ddjdd wfggb Wake up?? But, that's what I do every weekday morning at 5:00 a.m. But you know what- your post has got me thinking that maybe that's exactly what I'm doing wrong. So I'll stop doing just that and stay in bed till half past noon, go on the drink, collect free social money at hard-working tax-payers expense and pass out somewhere. Yeah, screw responsibility and all that nonsense! This so-called socialism's gonna be great. Now get working, boy and be sure to pay those (big) taxes that our good politicians are going to distribute to the likes of yours truly. In the meantime, I need a drink- who's buying?
+MusicalElitist I just did that - I quit my job and society and now I'm all signed up and getting my monthly free money. My conditions are rougher now but at least the money's free. It's made me very open-minded and irresponsible as well. Thanks, mate, for helping to liberate me from my former stupid-self.
Strange how socialism doesnt work , well until capitalism fails yet again and they turn to socialism to save the banks
Well love him or loath him,watching this brought it back,great band,he went on to the council,but to say he really had no plans when he called time on the jam is a joke,he had it all planed video made for S L A C ,so crap paul ,just hard for you to say I want to move on,I loved the council and the rest of it, who knows what would have happened if they carried on (answers on a postcard to)Great part of my life any how.
And he still brushes off ANY chance of a reunion...
As well he should.
Imo Wellers best work was with The Jam. Everything since is bang average at best.
In this particular clip, I hear utter selfishness which doesn't surprise me, all he does in free time is shop in Waitrose apparently these days, so he says, wow!
Wealth re- distribution eh? Weller's career has never even come close to reaching the same heights. He is strictly a UK phenomenon, his solo stuff is average at best and Style Council was the result of someone turning 25 himself! Looks like a young man with a huge chip on his shoulder here, he still hasn't brushed it off.
Aren’t you being rather self righteous? Is it possible that, for once, TV could get it right? Or just show some basic respect? Nope.
i think his solo career is pretty poor to average..i got sonik kicks..it was pretty bad...i only like 3 songs...he needed the jam.
Sorry, you couldn't have been more wrong. You shouldn't count yourself a fan without first accepting the fact that he's not a one-trick pony who could only churn out angsty and shouty anthems to perpetual 18-year-olds. Paul's a white artiste dripping in black soul, which, thank his wisdom, found full liberation in the Style Council. Poncy? Definitely not! Isn't exploring and expanding one's artistry a true measure of an artiste? He proved that after in his post-Jam chapters.
hasnt recorded a decent song in 20 years, retire paul no more solo albums you will end up like morrissey and mcartney a laughing stock
Except McCartney has produced some excellent work in his later years.
Ha mm done sum ok stuff but I no what u saying bud
Such a naive interview. Weller must look back at this now and cringe 🤣
To be fair most young people start off as socialists and if you get successful then you realise it is nonsense.
Its just my opinion , but every thing PW did after Jam at best " average"
You having a laugh ,just because he's not that snarling angry young man anymore which by the way I loved ,he went totally back to his mod roots with the council ,different direction to which definitely would not have worked as the jam , his solo career takes off with his 1st album some superb songs lyrically and musically Stanley road an absolutely incredible set of songs and as he has got older his writing has matured and moved on he doesn't look back seen him last week at the age of 66 he gave a set list of pure quality and energy ,so you may need to broaden your musical taste as your missing out on Britain's finest lyricist period
@@paulwilliams-rk6fy I did actually say " Just my opinion" if you read, which i am entitled to.It is actually possible to like the Jam as a stonking 3 piece band , without particularly caring for PW . My musical tastes still remain wide and varied from Rush, AC/DC, etc, PIL , Stranglers. etc, through to stuff like SKA, Reggae ( proper Caribbean stuff such as the late great Augustus Pablo.) i could go on but dont have time, am not actually having a laugh.