Café Bleu

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  After ending The Jam in the very early 1980s, Paul Weller decided to do something entirely different. He formed a new back in 1983 called The Style Council with Mike Talbot and drummer Steve White. Their sound combined jazz, soul, ska and funk. This was their first album. Dee C. Lee would later officially join the band full time continuing on as a backup singer and then at times co-lead singer. She would also become Weller's wife. I love the instrumental tunes Mick's Blessings, Blue Cafe, and Council Meetin'. The big single was of course the catchy My Ever Changing Moods. There's also the lovely song The Paris Match sung by Tracey Thorn. The band broke up in 1989 after 5 albums (the final one wasn't released until years later). Paul Weller once said they should have ended things two or three years before that. I wish they would have stuck around. It makes me wonder what could have been. Weller would go on to a solo career in the early 1990s with numerous solo albums that countine to this day. He and Lee divorced in 1998.

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