Celebrating probably the best pop group in the world with words, images and love. But it was the Style Council’s biggest, breeziest, brassiest hit, “My Ever Changing Moods,” that crowned Weller into what biographer Iain Munn called a “fair-skinned Smokey Robinson,” earned him his highest-selling single, and allowed the 1984 album it came from, “ Café Bleu,” to catapult him toward the top of a twinkling constellation of sophisti-pop superstars that shared the bourgie grandeur of his rebrand. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987) The Cure’s dips into Eastern instrumentation weren’t always the most graceful or successful, but the sitars (or sitar. Featured peformers: Paul Weller (vocals, guitar, synthesiser. The new softback edition by Stuart Deabill, Ian Snowball and Steve Rowland.
Later came other iterations of this new little prince: The video for “Boy Who Cried Wolf,” a deliciously syrupy song with its own scat section, stars a fez-clad Weller pensively staring into a hand mirror in a vacant English manor “Wanted (Or Waiter, There’s Some Soup in My Flies)” has him in pinstripes in a nightclub’s practice room.
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