@sonhouse saidI think you found the right Paul Weller.
Why would anyone down flag this song? I found a Paul Weller, singer songwriter but the dude I found was born in 1958, so he would be close to 70 by now so I am guessing that is the wrong Weller?
Paul Weller is a very interesting and serious English musician who has explored many musical styles over decades. I first learned of him from The Jam.
@Torunn saidHaven't heard from Nora for a while, she still has it🙂 Nice syncopation on keyboard and one thing I saw, why she has a cloth over the keyboard for decoration I guess maybe she didn't like the bare keyboard to be seen to distract from the music. All in all a great rendition of a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5n2X5ARRA
Norah Jones - Let It Be (Live At The Empire State Building)
@sonhouse : I first learned of Paul Weller from the last two albums of The Jam ("All Mod Cons" and "The Gift" ), which came out in the early 1980s (about the same time as R.E.M.'s "Murmur", when I was working in a book store in Mankato, Minnesota (back when book stores still existed and they had large magazine racks -- although I think I bought those albums up the hill at Mankato State University's book store) -- where (back in the lowlands) I also learned of The Jam's dissolution from an article in the NME (New Musical Express). I was young and naive at the time and wondered how such a thing could happen. Of course from there he went on to form The Style Council and do other things as well.
If I may play DJ Prester K, maybe I'll offer this set of three for now:
The Jam -- "Town Called Malice"
The Jam -- "Carnation"
Paul Weller -- "Into Tomorrow"
Completely aside from that, as maybe some other older survivors might also like to do, I sometimes like to consider what might have been going on a century or half a century ago.
I have a bad feeling that in the spring of 2026 there might be no significant celebration re: the publication of the first issue of Hugo Gernsback's "Amazing Stories". From "Radio Times" to these our times -- WTAH is wrong with us?
But as for some other things that have been going on this year, how about this track from half a century ago?
Al Stewart -- "The Dark and the Rolling Sea"
