
31 December 1985: Beat Surrender (Jam cover) as part of Live Aid highlights. Special thanks to all the Style Council fans who have kept that torch burning all these yearsThis was a massive passion project for usJoshes has been wanti.(Andy Kershaw) - Come To Milton Keynes (LP, Our Favourite Shop).They must prepare an election speech to deliver to their year group. Students can nominate themselves or be nominated by their peers. Elections take place annually during the 2nd & 3rd week of September. (Andy Kershaw) - Internationalists (LP, Our Favourite Shop) The Student Council of Kingswood Community College consists of 12 students, with each year group having two representatives.

03 March 1983: Speak Like A Child ( 7" promo) Polydor TSCDJ1.

( a session was recorded for David Jensen - see Karl's Tape 25 - August 1983 and here) Other Shows played Walls Come Tumbling Down was the opening song on a 1985 edition of Top of the Pops, introduced by Peel and Janice Long. Peel is known to have played The Council Collective's single 'Soul Deep' in early 1985, shortly after its release. Nonetheless he did play their song Right To Go in 1987, which was an unusual hip hop track featuring vocals of the rap group Dynamic Three, instead of Paul Weller. However, despite his support of both groups Peel seems to have shown little interest in The Style Council's output, perhaps due to their immediate popularity and mainstream success, more suited to early evening and daytime radio. And they didn't need big hair to get there. On July 25, 2000, the City Council approved the acquisition of 16.77 acres. With their generous slew of chart hits, The Style Council were one of the defining pop bands of the 80s. Kingswood Neighborhood Park is located at 7505 Trail Lake Dr., Fort Worth. Paul Weller, smart, fearless, audacious, with a social conscience totally unafraid to push the possibilities of pop. 13-08-79, first broadcast 20 August 1979). The Style Council was emblematic of it's creator. ( read more on wikipedia)Īs well as Paul Weller playing with The Jam, Mick Talbot had also recorded a Peel session with Merton Parkas (session rec. Both were involved in Band Aid and performed at Live Aid. In 1984 Weller and Talbot formed the Council Collective with like-minded musicians, releasing a single originally intended to raise funds for striking miners. The group were also renowned for their left-wing political stance expressed in songs such as Money-Go-Round and Walls Come Tumbling Down, and their support for the Labour Party. The group enjoyed a string of hits in the UK throughout the 80s, as well as six Top 20 albums, and achieved widespread success in Europe.

The Style Council's sound also took in aspects of funk and the pop ballad, augmented by contributions by vocalist D.C. The formation of the group allowed Weller to continue to develop the soul-influenced sound which he had begun exploring with The Jam. The Style Council were a British group formed in 1983 by Paul Weller (formerly of The Jam) and Mick Talbot (formerly of Dexy's Midnight Runners and Merton Parkas).
