Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council

When Paul Weller announced The Style Council's arrival in March 1983, he'd come a very long way. In fact, at the age of just 24, he was already a musical veteran with six albums and nine Top 10 singles under his belt with The Jam. As their leader he had become a deity-like figure and for his fans, The Jam's split was unimaginable. But creatively restless and of inquisitive mind, Paul jettisoned them at their height to form a collective with an eventual core line-up of Paul with Mick Talbot, Dee C Lee and Steve White. Over four albums and 17 singles, The Style Council made a stand and became the standard bearers of progressive soulful pop and social comment. This is their story.

Special Features

Booklet, Includes 20-page booklet

Disc 1
1: Headstart for Happiness
2: Long Hot Summer
3: My Ever-changing Moods
4: Walls Come Tumbling Down
5: Party Chambers
6: Wanted (Or Waiter, There's Some Soup in My Flies)
7: Shout to the Top!
8: It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
9: Come to Milton Keynes
10: Why I Went Missing
11: Waiting
12: Ghosts of Dachau
13: Down in the Seine
14: The Paris Match
15: Boy Who Cried Wolf
16: Life at a Top People's Health Farm
17: Homebreakers
18: Dropping Bombs On the Whitehouse (Extended Version)

Disc 2
1: Speak Like a Child
2: The Lodgers (Or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)
3: Money Go Round
4: You're the Best Thing
5: How She Threw It All Away
6: A Man of Great Promise
7: The Piccadilly Trail
8: A Solid Bond in Your Heart
9: All Gone Away
10: Sweet Loving Ways
11: Promised Land
12: Have You Ever Had It Blue
13: It Didn't Matter
14: Spin' Drifting
15: Here's One That Got Away
16: A Woman's Song
17: Changing of the Guard
18: My Ever-changing Moods (Demo)
19: Shout to the Top (Instrumental)

Number of Discs: 2

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