Courtesy Of Pretty Green
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…
my ears are still ringing fom last nights gig at crawley k2!! how amazing this legend is ,with his wide varity of music styles and beats.as a big paul weller fan i was always gonna like a gig of his but was blown away by the performance and energy of paul .i like 22 dreams a whole lot more after hearing the live more rockier versions and when eton rifles and the other faves were played the crowd went mad.we did not want it to end and after an encore i said i wish they would of played malice then wey hey he must of heard!! in they came for the final track town called malice...i took my 16 yr old son who thought it was amazing too,just goes to show its not just the 30 somethings that love paul, theres a new generation of weller fans emerging and the lengend will live on forever......
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have Crawley 2 (7th)
ReplyDeleteMixed the order around, no Shout but an electric Thats Entertainment.
Had trouble with the lights and video screen on Thursday, but was all ok Friday