ing Moods” with strings, and the extended, 5-minute plus version of “Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse.” Of course, it also Includes all the band’s classic singles -12 U.K. top-20 hits including the debut single “Speak Like A Child” and the utterly sublime “Long Hot Summer.” The album also features key album tracks and fans’ favorites such as “Headstart For Happiness” (full tracklisting for format details below). A demo version of the U.K. Top 5 single “My Ever Changing Moods” will be released as an ‘instant grat’ on September 10th; https:// TheStyleCouncil.lnk.to/ MyEverChangingMoodsDemoPR Long Hot Summers features rare photos, an introduction by Paul Weller, a new essay by Lois Wilson, and sleevenotes from ‘super-fan’, actor Martin Freeman. The album was remastered at Abbey Road Studios.
Long Hot Summer The Story Of The Style Council Greatest Hits / Anthology Released On Polydor / UMe “We set out to have fun, document the times and at the same time we wanted to elevate pop to an art form - I think we did that.” Paul Weller “The Style Council gave so much to my youth. Who am I kidding? Yes, and to my adulthood as well”. Martin Freeman
And now, finally Long Hot Summers - the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated definitive career anthology teaming with all the greatest hits and more is released on October 30th. Named with a nod to the band’s biggest hit, Long Hot Summers is endorsed and co-compiled by Paul Weller himself. As well as the huge U.K. hit “Long Hot Summer,” the album also includes the band’s sterling debut top 5 U.K. single “Speak Like A Child” as well as other masterpieces such as the languid “You’re The Best Thing,” “Ever Changing Moods” and dance floor filler “Shout To The Top.”
SANTA MONICA, CA - September 10, 2020 - The Style Council was emblematic of its creator. Paul Weller, smart, fearless, audacious, with a social conscience totally unafraid to push the possibilities of pop. With their generous slew of U.K. chart hits, The Style Council were one of the defining pop Long Hot Summers includes two bands of the 80s. And they didn’t need unreleased tracks - an intriguing demo of big hair to get there. the U.K. top 5 single “My Ever Chang84 Rock and Blues International • December 2020
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 U.K. 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. And it’s all here on this exceptional anthology. Format details: As well as digitally, the album will be available on triple album vinyl: limited editions of both vinyl formats: black vinyl and a highly covetable colored vinyl version. All format details and tracklistings below:
