Paul Weller Tour

Paul Weller (birth name: John William Weller) is an English singer-songwriter; born on 25 May 1958 in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey, England. As the lead singer of The Jam (1976-1982), the founder of The Style Council (1983-1989) and a hugely successful solo artist (1991-present), Paul Weller is one of the most revered music writers and performers of the past thirty years and is cited as an influence by countless other singers.

Soon after the formation of The Style Council, Weller and Dee C. Lee, Style Council's backing singer, began a romantic relationship. The couple married in 1988 and divorced in 1994. They have two children Leah and Natt, who is also a working musician and once appeared on stage with his father at Hammersmith Apollo at age 12. Weller also has a daughter by a short-lived relationship with a make-up artist.

While he was recording at the Manor studios in the mid 1990s, he became involved with Samantha Stock. They have two children. In December 2008 they broke up and Weller moved in with Hannah Andrews, a backing singer on Weller's 22 Dreams who has toured with his band.

Paul Weller's 10th solo studio album, Wake Up the Nation is planned to be released in 2010. Paul Weller is currently hitting road for UK Tour. After completing a bunch of concerts in December 2009, Paul Well will resume the UK Tour with a couple of concerts on 24-25 May 2010 at Royal Albert Hall, London.



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Paul Weller Critical success

His 2005 album As Is Now featured the singles "From The Floorboards Up", "Come On Let's Go" and "Here's The Good News". The album was particularly well received critically and in February 2006 it was announced that Weller would be the latest recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BRIT Awards. Despite a tendency to shun such occasions, Weller accepted the award in person, and performed four songs at the ceremony, including The Jam classic "Town Called Malice".

In June 2006, a double live album titled Catch-Flame!, with songs from both his solo work and his career with The Jam and The Style Council, was released. In late 2006, the album Hit Parade was released, which collected all the singles released by the Jam, Style Council and Weller during his solo career. Two versions of this album were released: a single disc with a selection from each stage of his career, and a four-disc limited edition, which included every single released and came with a 64-page booklet.

The double album 22 Dreams was released on 2 June 2008 with "Echoes Round The Sun" as the lead single. Before recording this album, Weller had decided to part company with his existing band, resulting in the replacement of everyone except Steve Cradock. As well as Cradock, the new band consisted of Andy Lewis on bass, Andy Crofts of The Moons/The On Offs on keys and Steve Pilgrim of The Stands on drums. In November 2008 the box set Weller at the BBC was released in various formats, most notably as a 4-CD set and as a download which included multiple bonus tracks. A DVD, Weller at the BBC, was also released. The DVD contained more than 30 tracks, none of which were included in the various audio formats.


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Paul Weller Career

Although The Jam emerged at the same time as punk rock bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash, The Jam better fit the mould of the so-called 'new wave' bands who came later. Also, being from just outside of London rather than in it, they were never really part of the tightly-knit punk clique.

Nonetheless, The Clash emerged as one of the leading early advocates of the band, and were sufficiently impressed by The Jam to take them along as the support act on their White Riot tour of 1977. The Jam's first single "In the City" took them into the UK Top 40 for the first time in May 1977. Although every subsequent single had a placing within the Top 40, it would not be until the band released "The Eton Rifles", with Weller's very political lyrics, that they broke into the Top 10, hitting the No. 3 spot in November 1979.

The increasing popularity of their blend of pop melodies and Weller's lyrics led, in May 1980, to their first number one single, "Going Underground". Originally, "Going Underground" was supposed to be a double A side with the psychedelic "Dreams of Children", but a mistake at a French pressing plant meant "Going Underground" was given 'A' status on the label.

By the early 1980s, The Jam had become one of the biggest bands in Britain. They became the only band other than The Beatles to perform two songs ("Town Called Malice" and "Precious") on one edition of Top of the Pops (the feat would later also be equalled by Oasis and Manic Street Preachers). The Jam even had one single, "That's Entertainment", reach No. 21 in the UK singles chart despite not even being released in that country - it got there purely on the strength of the huge number of people buying import sales of the German single release. Weller, however, was eager to explore a more soulful, melodic style with a broader instrumention.


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Paul Weller Introduction

Weller was born on 25 May 1958 in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey, England, to John and Ann Weller. He was initially known as John William Weller but later acquired the name Paul. His father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was a part-time cleaner.In 1963 Weller started his education at Maybury County First School. His love of music started with The Beatles, then The Who and the Small Faces. By the time Weller was eleven and moving up to secondary school at Sheerwater County Secondary music was the biggest part of his life, and he began playing the guitar.

In 1972 Weller formed his first group, The Jam, playing bass guitar with his best friends Steve Brookes (lead guitar) and Dave Waller (rhythm guitar). Weller's father, their manager, began booking the band into local working men's clubs. Joined by Rick Buckler on drums, and with Bruce Foxton soon replacing Waller on rhythm guitar, the four-piece band began to forge a local reputation, playing a mixture of Beatles covers and a number of compositions written by Weller and Brooks. In 1976 Brookes left the band and Weller and Foxton decided they would swap guitar roles, with Weller now the lead singer.


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