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The negative press reaction dissuaded Weller from any further political involvement.Īfter the live Home And Abroad in 1986, 1987's The Cost Of Loving continued the group's success, but began Weller's fall from grace with the music press, who condemned its earnest themes. Our Favourite Shop (1985) stretched Weller's musical vocabulary, and the group appeared at Live Aid and were involved with the ill-fated Red Wedge- a 1986 tour to raise awareness of England's Labour party among young voters. Paul Weller sang with Band Aid and the band made 'Soul Deep' as Council Collective in aid of the miners. Lee (now a Syle Councillor and later to be Weller's wife) at a striking miners' benefit in London. In 1984, they played with singer for Wham! D.C. Their debut gig was at 1983's May Day Show For Jobs And Peace in Liverpool. With keyboards, horns and harmonies replacing the trademark bluster, Paris Match and Cafe Blue were grounded in African-American music: soul, jazz, blues, R&B and (with less success) hip hop.

Their dreamy 'Long Hot Summer' from 1983's 'Paris Match' EP and 1984's Jazz-tinged Cafe Bleu (issued in a slightly different form as My Ever Changing Moods in the USA) underlined Weller's rejection of his Beatles/Small Faces roots. They returned to the Soul and Jazz Weller had visited in The Jam's final days, and their upbeat debut 'Speak Like A Child' (1983) married social commentary to brassy R and B.

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Once he split The Jam, vocalist and guitarist Paul Weller abandoned rage and Rickenbackers and formed The Style Council with keyboardist Mick Talbot, from London Mod band The Merton Parkas, and drummer Steve White.