THE STYLE COUNCIL | Long Hot Summers: The Story of | OOP 3 x BLACK Vinyl LP

	£		62
	$		82

SOLD OUT 2020 UK 32-track limited-edition, remastered at Abbey Road, 3-LP set on heavyweight BLACK vinyl. 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. In a quest for new sounds, the group travelled to realms previously unchartered for a pop group incorporating musical influences as wide ranging as Blue Note jazz and Chicago soul, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, Chicago House and Jacques Brel. At the same time, as battle lines were drawn in a decade under Margaret Thatcher culminating in the miner’s strike of 1984-85, Paul’s lyrics spoke with the language of the activist and his state of the nation addresses were both fierce and eloquent. Over four albums and 17 singles, The Style Council made a stand and became the standard bearers of progressive soulful pop and social comment. The Style Council was emblematic of its creator. Paul Weller, smart, fearless, audacious, with a social conscience and totally unafraid to push the possibilities of pop. This is their story… Housed in sealed/stickered DELUXE double-gatefold wide-spine (2LPs in RH / 1LP in LH) and comes with 3 x color-printed inner bags. Don't let this masterpiece get rustled out of your basket because once sold out, it's gone for good, so act now! VINYL TRACKLISTING

LP 1 
Side A: 01 Headstart for Happiness 02 Long Hot Summer 03 My Ever-Changing Moods 04 Walls Come Tumbling Down! 05 Party Chambers
Side B: 01 Wanted (or Waiter, There's…) 02 Shout to the Top! 03 It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands 04 Come to Milton Keynes 05 Why I Went Missing Gun – Lulu 06 Waiting 

LP 2
Side A: 01 Ghosts Of Dachau 02 Down in the Seine 03 The Paris Match 04 Life at a Top People's Health Farm 05 Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse (Extended version)
Side B: 01 Speak Like a Child 02 The Lodgers (Or She Was Only…) 03 Money Go Round 04 You're the Best Thing 05 How She Threw It All Away

LP 3
Side A: 01 A Man of Great Promise 02 The Piccadilly Trail 03 A Solid Bond in Your Heart 04 Sweet Loving Ways 05 Promised Land 06 It Didn't Matter
Side B: 01 Have You Ever Had It Blue 02 Spin' Drifting 03 Here's One That Got Away 04 Changing of the Guard 05 My Ever-Changing Moods (Demo)

SOLD OUT 2020 UK 32-track limited-edition, remastered at Abbey Road, 3-LP set on heavyweight BLACK vinyl. 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. In a quest for new sounds, the group travelled to realms previously unchartered for a pop group incorporating musical influences as wide ranging as Blue Note jazz and Chicago soul, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, Chicago House and Jacques Brel. At the same time, as battle lines were drawn in a decade under Margaret Thatcher culminating in the miner’s strike of 1984-85, Paul’s lyrics spoke with the language of the activist and his state of the nation addresses were both fierce and eloquent. Over four albums and 17 singles, The Style Council made a stand and became the standard bearers of progressive soulful pop and social comment. The Style Council was emblematic of its creator. Paul Weller, smart, fearless, audacious, with a social conscience and totally unafraid to push the possibilities of pop. This is their story… Housed in sealed/stickered DELUXE double-gatefold wide-spine (2LPs in RH / 1LP in LH) and comes with 3 x color-printed inner bags.

Don't let this masterpiece get rustled out of your basket because once sold out, it's gone for good, so act now!
 

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