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Rickenbacker Rock: The Jam

Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1978

Try calling Paul Weller of the Jam a punk rocker, and finds out how icy a cold stare can be. The intense young man who fulfills the Townshend role in England's only Mod new wave band has very definite ideas about the Jam, and punkdom plays no part therein.

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