- Out Of The Sinking
- Shadow Of The Sun
- All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You)
- From The Floorboards Up
- Sea Spray
- Wild Blue Yonder
- Empty Ring
- You Do Something To Me
- Have You Made Up Your Mind
- Porcelain Gods
- Picking Up Sticks
- Wishing On A Star
- Wild Wood
- Echoes Round The Sun (w/Gem Archer of Oasis on guitar)
- Come On/Let’s Go
- Whirlpool’s End
- Encore:
- Broken Stones
- That’s Entertainment (w/appearance from Liam Gallagher)
- The Changingman
For thirty years, John Weller managed the career of his son Paul, through the salad days and success of The Jam in the Seventies and early Eighties, the ups and downs of The Style Council and Paul’s re-emergence as a solo artist in the Nineties. Theirs was a unique father-son relationship in the music industry, built on John’s unwavering belief in Paul’s talent and shared values like hard work and pragmatism.
John could be blunt, and once refused to have lunch in a record company’s executive dining room, remarking to the managing director: “I didn’t come here to eat, I came to do business.” But his bark was worse than his bite.
John’s success was all the more remarkable since he started in his forties after years working in factories, on building sites and driving a taxi. When The Jam signed to Polydor in February 1977, for a £6,000 advance and a six per cent royalty rate, John admitted he didn’t have a bank account and asked for cash instead of a cheque. A&R man Chris Parry duly we…
John could be blunt, and once refused to have lunch in a record company’s executive dining room, remarking to the managing director: “I didn’t come here to eat, I came to do business.” But his bark was worse than his bite.
John’s success was all the more remarkable since he started in his forties after years working in factories, on building sites and driving a taxi. When The Jam signed to Polydor in February 1977, for a £6,000 advance and a six per cent royalty rate, John admitted he didn’t have a bank account and asked for cash instead of a cheque. A&R man Chris Parry duly we…
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