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charts the record was released as Internationalists in the U.S. Top Ten hit with 'The Walls Come Tumbling Down.' The single was taken from Our Favourite Shop, which reached number one on the U.K. In the summer of 1985, the Style Council had another U.K. 'My Ever Changing Moods' became their first U.S. While it was musically all over the map, it was their most successful album, peaking at number five in the U.K.

Cafe Bleu was Wellers most stylistically ambitious album to date, drawing from jazz, soul, rap, and pop. The Style Council released their first full-length album, Cafe Bleu, in March of 1984 two months later, a resequenced version of the record, retitled My Ever Changing Moods, was released in America. 'Solid Bond in Your Heart' became another hit in November, peaking at number 11. Three months later, 'The Money-Go-Round' peaked at number 11 on the charts as the group was recording an EP, Paris, which appeared in August the EP reached number three. Released in March of 1983, the Style Councils first single 'Speak Like a Child' became an immediate hit, reaching number four on the British charts.

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As his pretensions increased, the number of hits the Style Council had decreased by the end of the decade, the group was barely able to crack the British Top 40 and Weller had turned from a hero into a has-been. His scathing criticisms of racism, unemployment, Margaret Thatcher, and sexism sat uneasily beside his burgeoning obsession with high culture. Wellers lyrics were typically earnest, yet his leftist political leanings became more pronounced. With the Style Council, the underlying intellectual pretensions that ran throughout Wellers music came to the forefront.Īlthough the music was rooted in American R&B, it was performed slickly - complete with layers of synthesizers and drum machines - and filtered through European styles and attitudes. Together, Weller and Talbot became the Style Council - other musicians were added according to what kind of music the duo were performing.

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In order to pursue this musical direction, he teamed up in 1983 with keyboardist Mick Talbot, a former member of the mod revival band the Merton Parkas. Weller wanted to incorporate more elements of soul, R&B, and jazz into his songwriting, which is something he felt his punk-oriented bandmates were incapable of performing. Allmusic Biography : Guitarist/vocalist Paul Weller broke up the Jam, the most popular British band of the early 80s, at the height of their success in 1982 because he was dissatisfied with their musical direction.

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