Magic: A Journal of Song

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In 1985 he joined a Left-wing music collective called Red Wedge. While Weller is no longer angry or young, Jones feels the singer still holds his socialist convictions. There is talent and there is skill, but there’s a certain amount of magic attached to songwriting.' – Paul Weller Other songs full of political vim include The Jam’s Town Called Malice, The Style Council’s revolutionary Walls Come Tumbling Down! and their resistance anthem Shout to the Top!, as well as Weller’s 2010 solo single Wake Up The Nation.

But there were other reasons. “They were the biggest band in Britain and one of the biggest bands in Europe, and Paul had begun to find that creatively frustrating,” he adds. Compared to most of his peers, he was performing at a very young age,” Jones tells the Daily Express. Magic: A Journal of Song is the definitive book of Weller's songwriting career from founding The Jam in his teenage years, to creating The Style Council, through to his years as a solo musician. Offering unprecedented insight into Weller's creative process, his lyrics are accompanied by more than 450 photographs and items of memorabilia, and an illuminating commentary of over 25,000 words. As told to journalist and author, Dylan Jones, Magic is Paul Weller's most candid and intimate account of his musical life to date. I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a beautiful fully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that fascinating. It's magic.' - PAUL WELLER Extras: Collector copies also include two 8"x10" (200mm x254mm) lyric prints of one of Weller's favourite songs, 'Aspects', from his 2018 solo album True Meanings. Produced exclusively for the edition, Weller's handwritten lyrics to 'Aspects' are beautifully recreated over two sheets. The second print is numbered, stamped, and both are suitable for framing.Indeed, in the mid-1990s, around the time of Cool Britannia, Weller was roundly praised by many of the younger Britpop bands such as Oasis, Blur and Pulp. In Magic: A Journal of Song , Paul Weller talks about his life and music through a personally curated selection of over 100 songs spanning his entire musical career.

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Collector copies also include two 8"x10" (200mm x254mm) lyric prints of one of Weller's favourite songs, 'Aspects', from his 2018 solo album True Meanings. Produced exclusively for the edition, Weller's handwritten lyrics to 'Aspects' are beautifully recreated over two sheets. The second print is numbered, stamped, and both are suitable for framing. Offering unprecedented insight into his creative process, Weller's personally curated selection of 120 song lyrics is accompanied by an illuminating commentary of over 25,000 words. As told to journalist and author, Dylan Jones, Magic: A Journal of Song presents Weller's most candid and intimate account of his musical life to date. From founding The Jam as a teenager, through his time as one half of The Style Council, to his years as a solo musician, Magic is Weller's definitive document of his songwriting career. Coming from Woking, in the Surrey commuter belt, Weller and his bandmates played their early gigs in unremarkable towns like this across the west of London.I think it’s very rare you can look at an artist, a songwriter or a musician – look at the work they did in their 50s and 60s – and say categorically that it’s as good as, if not better, than the music they produced when they were younger. It’s very, very rare.