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Paul Weller (born 25 May 1958) is a British singer / songwriter, leader of two successful bands: The Jam and The Style Council. In the UK, he is recognised as something of a national institution yet, because much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture, he has remained essentially a national rather than an international star. He was born John Paul Weller in Woking. He was also a central figure of the Mod revival.
Weller first burst onto the national music scene in 1977 with his first band, The Jam, which he had formed four years earlier as a teenager in Woking with his friends Rick Buckler ( drums) and Bruce Foxton ( bass). Weller himself took lead vocal duties and was a talented lead guitarist.
1977 was the year after the first wave of punk bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Clash and The Stranglers had arrived in the public eye. Although The Jam's music had much of the fire and the passion of those bands, in terms of song writing ability and lyrical content, The Jam were more in the mould of the so-called ' new wave' bands who came later on. Also, being just outside of London rather than in it, they were never really part of the tightly-knit and resentful punk clique, perhaps inspiring Weller's lines in The Jam's very first single In The City: "In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you, but every time I approach you, you make me look a fool."