“Down by the river/In soulless penury/Even the sky wouldn’t look at me”
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POLYDOR
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
9/10
PAUL WELLER is a composer who has always tended to write alone. With The Jam he recorded around 140 songs, all of which – apart from a few covers and a handful of Bruce Foxton originals – were written solely by him. His years with the Style Council might have been full of interesting collaborations and guest vocalists, but nearly all of the 100-plus songs they recorded – some Mick Talbot instrumentals aside – are credited to P Weller, as were his first decade and a half of solo albums.
He once viewed co-writing with a fair degree of suspicion. Talking to a while ago about his unlikely but rather good 2007 collaborations
