Artist:The Style Council
Song:Walls Come Tumbling Down
Album:Gold
In 1982, Paul Weller disbanded the very popular punk band The Jam and formed a new band The Style Council. He hated the Jam's music and The Style Council was more soul based. His main collaborator in The Style Council was former Dexys Midnight Runners keyboard player Mick Talbot. The rest of the band was fluid including Weller's girlfriend at the time Dee C. Lee on vocals and Steve White on drums. The Style Council had seven top ten hits in England but they weren't successful in the US. Their first single Speak Like A Child reached #4 on the British Singles chart and it went from there. They were on Polydor in England and Geffen in the US. Walls Come Tumbling Down is from the 1985 album Our Favourite Shop. Geffen changed the title to Internationalists. Walls Come Tumbling Down reached #6 on the British Singles chart. Like most of Weller's songs, it reflects his leftist political views which is one of the reasons the band was a tough sell in the US. The Style Council released four albums from 1984-88. This 2CD comp is a good intro to their music. Weller disbanded The Style Council in 1989. He said he should have done that a couple of years earlier. He said they made a couple of good albums and the quality fell off. They reunited for a 2019 recording session that is documented in the 2020 documentary Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council. Here's the video foe Wall Come Tumbling Down by The Style Council.
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