#The Style Council

[crystalfilmmp3]

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Introducing: The Style Council (1983)

#the style council #paul weller #mick talbot #steve white #80sedit #musicedit #musicvideoedit #mvedit #musicgifs #*

[culture-sluts]

Article about The Style Council with a Paul Weller interview. ZigZag Magazine, March 1984. Scanned by me.

📸: Tim Pope

#the style council #paul weller #mick talbot

[dms-a-jem]

Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas

Top of the Pops 1984🎄🎁🎅🏻

#band aid #do they know it's christmas #paul young #boy george #simon le bon #sting #tony hadley #paul weller #glenn gregory #marilyn #holly johnson #paul rutherford #culture club #duran duran #the police #spandau ballet #the style council #heaven 17 #frankie goes to hollywood

[80sheaven]

The Style Council, gracing the back cover of Smash Hits in July 1985

#the style council #smash hits #paul weller #mick talbot #80s pop #sophisti-pop

[depressedraisin]

jukebox in the corner- *proceeds to name drop the gayest style council song*

#arctic monkeys #the style council #Paul Weller #tranquility base hotel and casino

[undergroundrockpress]

Paul Weller, 1983.

#rock photography #paul weller #the jam #the style council #1983 #1980s #rock & cigarette

[missrayon]

#paul weller #the style council

[superherokiller]

The Style Council.

#tsc #the style council #paul weller #mick talbot

[stylecouncil]

Long Hot Summer - The Style Council

“One important model was the playwright Joe Orton, who had been murdered in August 1967 by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell. Orton's tough persona, wit and daring use of gay themes in his work, and this at a time when homosexuality was illegal, excited Paul. Orton's gayness was very masculine: he was highly promiscuous, and he used his talents to challenge the very people Paul had attacked in Jam songs. Paul read John Lahr's excellent Orton biography Prick Up Your Ears and assimilated aspects of Orton's character and attitude into his own work. He wrote a song called “Up For Grabs!”, a play on the title Orton had used for his unfilmed script for The Beatles, and worked on a song with the singer Tracie which he called The Boy Hairdresser, named after Orton's posthumously published novel. He took things further with the video for this song [Long Hot Summer], which in part featured shots of Paul and his musical partner Mick Talbot lying by a river, tickling each other's ears. Paul is dressed only in cut-off jeans, his skin oiled. Polydor Records panicked when they saw it, said it had to be reshot. In response, Paul sent the head of the company a video with a note saying, "We have re-shot the video, here it is.' The video he sent was pornographic.” - Paolo Hewitt, Paul Weller: The Changing Man

“Like almost everyone in the UK in the early 80s the young Modfather had fallen madly in love with the beautifully-shot 1981 ITV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited…Oh, and a seductive homoerotic storyline in which two young hetero men fall for one another surrounded by the Baroque splendour of Castle Howard, North Yorkshire. Charles Ryder’s long hot summer with the decadent Sebastian Flyte opened up a whole new realm of sensation for a generation emerging from the concrete rubble of 1970s Britain. Even for the son of a taxi driver and a cleaner from Woking like Weller.” - Mark Simpson (x)

#paul weller #words #the style council #my edits #mick talbot

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #juke #the style council #rock and roll hall of fame #1980s

[crystalfilmmp3]

The Style Council - Shout To The Top

Our Favourite Shop (1985)

#the style council #paul weller #dee c lee #mick talbot #steve white #80sedit #musicedit #musicvideoedit #mvedit #musicgifs #*

[wamnak]

The Style Council “My Ever Changing Moods” 1984

How can this be 40 years old already? The US version of their first album. As a massive fan of The Jam I’ve never really completely warmed to Paul Weller’s seemingly abrupt shift in sound. Of course in retrospect it wasn’t really that abrupt… that last year of The Jam there was weird shift in sound, it’s just that nobody (even his band mates) expected him to disband the group and start a new band in a more soulful and jazzy direction. This sounded much better today than I remembered it. Of course “A Solid Bond In Your Heart” is killer (though I like The Jam’s version better).

#the style council #paul weller #mick talbot #records #vinyl #my record collection #Spotify

[musickickztoo]

Paul Weller  *May 25, 1958

#paul weller #the jam #the style council #may 25 #65

[80sheaven]

Paul Weller on the front cover of Record Mirror (Feb 1987)

#paul weller #the style council #record mirror #80s music #80s magazine #80s pop

[cursemewithyourkiss]

When the summer ends...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz // Brideshead Revisited (1981) \\ Callie, Mint Green // Brideshead Revisited (1981) \\ The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson // Stand By Me (1986) \\ Long Hot Summer, The Style Council

#webweaving #aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe #brideshead revisited #stand by me #words #the haunting of hill house #parallels #the style council #lyrics #mint green #mint green band

[ohdarlings]

paul weller + dee c lee

#pointy man posting again …. #the style council #paul weller #dee c lee