![]() ![]() In the summer of ’82, the pair had met up and had an hours-long conversation in a West End café. “And we both had similar humour - taking the piss out of everything, including ourselves. “We’re the same age we had a lot of similar influences, from the soul and R’n’B thing, to the mod thing, to daft things - Tony Hancock, and Carry On films - a lot of cultural references we both talked about,” says Weller. In 1979, Talbot, then a member of mod revivalists the Merton Parkas, had contributed piano to The Jam’s cover of the Motown chestnut Heatwave, and then guested on keyboards when they played the Rainbow, in Finsbury Park. So he turned The Jam down - though on his return, he and Weller began working on the project that would be launched in the spring of the following year. Talbot - who had briefly served in Dexys Midnight Runners, and is these days the keyboard player and musical director in Kevin Rowland’s relaunched version of the same group - had been on the dole for nine months, and had jumped at the chance of a month-long stint playing R’nB covers with a South London band called The Misfits. ![]() I was literally sitting waiting for my cab, to go to the airport.” They brought you up.’ But I was already committed to do some work with friends in Germany. “He said, ‘No - the other guys just remembered you. “I said, ‘Is this just down to you? Are you trying to force me on them?’” says Talbot. He, Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton were preparing for their final tour, and were short of a keyboard player - and, with Weller having already met Mick Talbot to discuss his post-Jam plans, he called him to find out if he’d be interested. In late 1982, Paul Weller came close to effectively putting The Jam and The Style Council onstage simultaneously.
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