version of The Office), a professed "superfan" of the group. The compilation, remastered at Abbey Road Studios, features new notes by Weller, essayist Lois Wilson, and actor Martin Freeman (star of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy and the U.K. Long Hot Summers will be available from UMC October 30 - the same day a new documentary about The Style Council, featuring interviews with Weller, Talbot, White and Lee, will premiere on Sky Arts in England. The latter's mixed critical reception was followed by the experimental Confessions Of a Pop Group (1988) the following year's Modernism: A New Decade was rejected by Polydor Records, after which Weller called the group off for a solo career. Top 40 hit), 1985's chart-topping Our Favorite Shop and 1987's The Cost Of Loving. The group earned three straight gold records in England with 1984's Café Bleu (released in America as My Ever Changing Moods - the title track of which became a U.S. (Along with Billy Bragg and Jimmy Somerville, Weller was active in Red Wedge, a collective of Labour-sympathetic musicians working to drum up support against England's prime minister Margaret Thatcher.) But Weller's signature songwriting was still at the helm - as well as a growing political bent. Lee, Weller's work in The Style Council largely eschewed the punk leanings of The Jam for more overt New Wave, slick soul and sophisti-pop influences.
Working with Dexys Midnight Runners keyboardist Mick Talbot, drummer Steve White and vocalist Dee C. Long Hot Summers: The Story of The Style Council provides an extensive overview of Weller's work through the '80s after the dissolution of The Jam.The 37-track collection, available across 2 CDs or 3 LPs, includes a healthy mix of the group's biggest singles, album cuts, B-sides and two unreleased tracks: an extended version of 1984's "Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse" and a string-laden demo of the band's biggest worldwide hit, "My Ever Changing Moods."
Ahead of a forthcoming documentary on the second famed band of Paul Weller's career, the revered British rocker has co-compiled a new collection devoted to The Style Council.
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