The Style Council: The Cost Of Loving
Dave Rimmer, Q, March 1987
IT'S FOUR YEARS now since Paul Weller knocked The Jam on the head and launched his new group with "Merton" Mick Talbot. Ever since the break, his old die-hard following has been dwindling slowly but inexorably.
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