Paul Weller chats to Eddy Temple-Morris about his sixteenth solo studio album, Fat Pop.
There aren’t many musicians who genuinely deserve the moniker ‘Legend’, Paul Weller is one of them.
In a career spanning five decades, he’s fronted one of the greatest British new wave bands of all time, The Jam, as the main man behind the Style Council he combined his love of alternative rock and soul to create some perfect pop music, and as a solo artist with his continuation to evolve and experimented with his music. The glue that has always held his music together has been his love of soul music which has influenced his writing and recording throughout his career.
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Verdict: Hypnotic blues
One of the few positives of a lockdown now happily coming to an end has been its impact on pop s most restless souls.
With tour plans in tatters, artists from Taylor Swift to Van Morrison have simply stayed in and made new music. Continuing his late-career purple patch, Paul Weller is now joining the club.
It s only ten months since he last topped the charts with his 15th solo album, On Sunset, but he s used his enforced isolation to good effect, capturing ideas on his phone and adding piano, guitar and vocals in his home studio before getting his band to play their parts remotely.
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