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It’s fairly safe to assume that I had a fantastic afternoon/evening at
#deeclee
birthday party. All 3 here (& Paul too of course) will be playing live (individually) in 2021/22. Stay tuned for the where & the when and hopefully see some of you there
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It’s August so that is 40 years since the release of LONG HOT SUMMER (à Paris) ☀️ Recorded in Paris in June, it entered the chart at number 8, reached number 3 & remained in the Top 40 until October.
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26th Jan; Paul Young. “Sadly Stacey has passed away today after a 2 year fight with brain cancer. She died peacefully at our home surrounded by family, friends and her four children: Levi, Layla, Grady and Jude” >> This iconic sleeve with Stacey, etched in our memories forever.
WOW!! Watch this 🤩 Absolutely fantastic of STEVE WHITE
@drummerwhitey
to record this today in advance of tomorrow’s listening party! A track from CAFE BLEU but can you name it? Post your answer, retweet and join us all back here on Tues 28th at 8pm
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: 24 second clip of the intro, 4 bars of groove and the accents from “Internationalists.” Recorded by
@drummerwhitey
on 12th July 2019 to commemorate the global event 34 years ago today. Please retweet to get
#thestylecouncil
topping within the
#LiveAid
tweets 🌟
It’s a wrap. It started with the “Long Hot Summers” vinyl & CD and ended with a documentary that included a contemporary performance of “It’s A Very Deep Sea”
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That alone made the last 31 years worth it & ensures their place in the hall of fame 😘
‘Have You Ever Had It Blue’ LIVE on 1st November 2018. First performed in October 1984 & re-written by
@drummerwhitey
as ‘With Everything To Lose’ by February 1985 for release on the glorious number 1 album Our Favourite Shop.
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A bit of an exclusive - The Style Council, London tonight, 3rd March 2023: line up: Reader, Sidelnyk, Peake, Talbot, Turner, White & Lee.
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What a band, approaching 40 years for most in this pic. (used with permission).
Very early in January 1983: Just a few weeks after The Jam’s final gig and long before The Style Council were publicly revealed, there was a secret hovercraft day trip to France for the first ever photo shoot … with Mick Talbot. Photo: Peter Anderson.
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HAPPY 56th BIRTHDAY to Steve White
@drummerwhitey
! Back in 1983 Steve turned 18 & almost immediately headed to Paris to record Long Hot Summer. Here’s a video of a Style Council classic from Cafe Bleu originally recorded a few months later …
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🎂 🍰 🎉
YOU’RE THE BEST THING was the 2nd single from
#CafeBleu
and was a double A side, but The Big Boss Groove was not on the album. I am sure it has been a wedding 1st dance for some of you here? For young lovers everywhere
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Sleeves here as always by
@halfon
OK. So. I was chatting to
@drummerwhitey
about a listening party for The Style Council’s Our Favourite Shop. We had the same thought. Wouldn’t it be beyond amazing if Paul Weller joined in. We both messaged him. And......PAUL WELLER IS UP FOR DOING A LISTENING PARTY.
30th December 2021
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duo hand in their updates to Ann for issue “157” of The Style Council fan club magazine. Photo courtesy of
@WellerNicky
from Facebook.
Well that's it folks. Butterflies these last 45 minutes wondering how it would all go. Flew in! I'll spend the next few hours reading back and responding. Thanks Tim, thanks EVERYONE who joined in worldwide. Legends. What an album, what a band!
#CafeBleu
xx
Today in 1983 a young drummer went to an audition for a band he didn't know & in turn they were no longer expecting him as they had already found someone else .... I wonder how he got on. We'll find out tomorrow.
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9pm TONIGHT.
Freeview, Youview (BT) - Channel 11
Sky - Channel 122,
Sky HD - Channel 820
Virgin - Channel 123
Freesat - Channel 147
Sky On Demand - From 10pm
THEN there’s a 30 minute premiere of “A night with The Style Council” on Sky Arts “on demand” right at the end of this.
Paul's first visit to Fife since the early days of The Jam, and this song he first played in Scotland 40 years ago. A Man of Great Promise.
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@paulwellerHQ
Dunfermline. He said he'll be back. Great sloping venue & Great sound.
Paul & Mick THIS WEEK at a Black Pumas gig in London. As Paul told us directly, The Style Council is a friendship which has endured & ALL 4 members remain in regular contact. MICK will feature on the 2020 Paul Weller album. Photo by dusty_sound_programme
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💕
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to STEVE WHITE
@drummerwhitey
Fifty Five years young. We’ll look through the archives & pick out some classics as the day goes on. Meantime he has a 20 hour spotify playlist of all the Style Council & Paul Weller solo tracks he played on RT!
Sept 83: A Solid Bond In Your Heart.
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was recorded in January, the same time as Speak Like A Child, a 7” only to complete the 4 for 1983. Recorded before
@drummerwhitey
joined, which is why you find Zeke Manyika “back” on the drums.
MICK TALBOT is 65 on Monday …. Way too early for candles and cake but we’ll celebrate his finest moments behind the keys 🎹 this weekend. I’ll start with ….. “MICK’s UP….”
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1985: September. The Lodgers would peak at number 13, staying in the top 100 for 6 weeks. Throughout 1985 TSC were on fire, untouchable and always game for a laugh. Paul, Mick, Steve & Dee are
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MICK TALBOT will be in Paris tomorrow for his 65th birthday. 40 years on from this picture.
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Here’s the lesser known “That Guy Called Pumpkin” from Steve White’s “A Certain Kind of Freedom” album post Style Council
BREAKING NEWS: STEVE WHITE won a prestigious award for his THE ART OF DRUMMING series last night at the Royal Television Society (RTS) awards in London. Marvellous. All 4 episodes are on Sky Arts. CONGRATULATIONS STEVE 👏🏻
@drummerwhitey
🏆
40 years on. HAPPY BIRTHDAY - The original plan for the My Ever Changing Moods was this sleeve & also to contain tracks from the excellent October 1983 Amsterdam gig. Two hips = Tulips.
@halfon
@drummerwhitey
@PaulWellerNews
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“The Style Council score their first Top 10 in 31 years with Long Hot Summers”
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👏🏻 🙏🏼 to everyone who bought either a CD (where available), black vinyl or colour vinyl (where available)! Absolutely fantastic and it will open the doors for future releases.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to 17,969 of you! The arrival of 2023 signals the 40th anniversary 🥰 40 years since TSC1 appeared on 7”. Hopefully Universal will release something in 2023 to celebrate such a milestone. The vaults are full of unreleased gems. New hashtag
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… & here we are in 2024, the 40th Anniversary of all things 1984. A quick coffee and then we can begin on what was a fascinating year for
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Happy 65th to
@paulwellerHQ
! thanks for all the encouragement & kind words over the years. 40 years ago today Paul celebrated his 25th at a special London recording for the BBC. Here’s the unreleased TIMES ARE TIGHT
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Paul Weller Live in London - 15th May 2021: My Ever Changing Moods, It’s A Very Deep Sea & You’re The Best Thing 😍 If you missed out ….. it will shortly be aired across the BBC - BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, BBC Sounds, BBC TV and iPlayer
@paulwellerHQ
.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our good friend & well lets be honest, still the best drummer in Britain, Mr STEVE WHITE, 53 years young today. You can catch him over at
@drummerwhitey
This archive pic in his original 1983 cardigan from Long Hot Summer on Top of The Pops.
Absolutely fantastic to see Mick Talbot down as composer / playing on Dee C Lee 2nd single from her forthcoming album on Acid Jazz. “Walk Away” is now available A friendship back to early 1983 when during her TSC audition they recorded Money-Go-Round!
Very early in January 1983: Just a few weeks after The Jam’s final gig and long before The Style Council were publicly revealed, there was a secret hovercraft day trip to France for the first ever photo shoot … with Mick Talbot. Photo: Peter Anderson.
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The final track! COUNCIL MEETIN’ (no g) wraps it up, an instrumental that was only ever played during the small club European tour in October 1983. Paul played bass on this track. What an album
#CafeBleu
is & thanks
@Tim_Burgess
for another brilliant
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The 40th anniversary of CAFÉ BLEU is going to pass without any official release from Universal* (due to "66" on pre order) but it'll not be forgotten here. We'll revisit that brilliant listening party with
@Tim_Burgess
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
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*It will happen though!
Photo 2 from the January 1983 trip to France. No one has any idea Mick Talbot would be in the band … it would be February before he is revealed and appears in this photo. Pic: Peter Anderson
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1983: The first single SPEAK LIKE A CHILD, what an explosive start - The first song ever recorded by the band. 350,000 copies sold with just a plain sleeved 7” and no 12”.
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I’ve been in Rome a week and have just spotted this BBC radio broadcast. The General Election tour didn’t go down too well, but this sounds fantastic. One of 4 nights there. This may only be its second broadcast since 1987. 57 minutes
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📸 🕵️♂️: 40 years after appearing at the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London with The Style Council
@drummerwhitey
returned today for an entirely different musical experience. Merry Christmas Steve!
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Good evening everyone for The Style Council Listening Party! 2 quick questions, tweet your answers.
1. Where are you right now? Town/City & Country (flag)
2. Is this the 1st time you will have heard Cafe Bleu (or even The Style Council)?
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You are gonna 💕 this tweet. On this very day 35 years ago The Style Council live in session (BBC). Superb quality - four tracks. Steve White’s first day in the office. Enjoy
@drummerwhitey
@paulwellerHQ
Plenty more to come in May. Follow & Retweet
#TSC
Here’s Paul & Mick onstage in London, December 2023 as special guests of
@stonefoundation
on their 25th anniversary tour. 40 years earlier the duo were just back from a small club tour of Europe
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@NeilSheasby
ポールウェラー来日ツアー六本木EXシアター
渋谷系/Club Jazzなど90年代以降の音��にも多大な影響を与えた洗練された音楽性で
40年近く前とは思えない今も色褪せないスタカンの残り3曲も
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The Style Council - Headstart For Happiness / My Ever Changing Moods / A Man Of Great Promise
Saddened to read about the death of DJ
#janicelong
on BBC news. A lot of involvement with
#TheStyleCouncil
from an exclusive listen to Our Fav Shop to this live Aid interview & her ‘audition’ as a guitarist for 1987 tour and 2021 with Steve/Mick on BBC 🏴
The Style Council's debut album, Café Bleu, turns 40 years old today!
Check out Paul and Mick's Top of the Pops performance of 'My Ever Changing Moods, from 1984 🎶
Credit: BBC 🎞️
On 13th Oct 1984 SHOUT TO THE TOP would chart at number 13 as the 2nd highest new entry. Wham were a new entry at number 3 with ‘Freedom’, Culture Club
@BoyGeorge
at number 2 ‘War Song’ &
@StevieWonder
would remain at Number 1 with ‘I just called..’
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7. SHOUT TO THE TOP, one of the finest dance records out there, it again came in 2 different sleeves with extra on the 12”. The late Stacey Smith was a model at the time. Photographed on steps that are a must visit when in London. More on them soon. Cardigans too
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Martin Freeman - his absolute passion for The Style Council shines throughout the show - Some of the nicest things ever said about them in the history of the BBC.
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FANTASTIC RADIO !
@BBC6Music
@jamiefreeman
please send MF a screenshot. IM x
THE WHOLEPOINT OF NO RETURN is a hidden/secret track on the original pressing
#CafeBleu
. Why? By the time Paul had decided he had better add a vocal track with HIM singing, the
@halfon
sleeves had already been sent to the printers
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Brilliant and fantastic news that Dee's live event in 8 weeks at
@RoughTradeRecs
is down to less than 25 tickets & this is 8 weeks before the album has been heard. Excellent to hear
@drummerwhitey
forms part of the live band. Don't leave it too late.