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Magic: A Journal of Song

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Magic presents 130 of Weller’s finest lyrics to date, accompanied by an illuminating commentary which sees him give unprecedented insight into his life and lyrics, as told to GQ editor and author, Dylan Jones OBE, in their first collaboration. Compared to most of his peers, he was performing at a very young age,” Jones tells the Daily Express. Magic: A Journal of Song is the definitive book of Weller's songwriting career from founding The Jam in his teenage years, to creating The Style Council, through to his years as a solo musician. Offering unprecedented insight into Weller's creative process, his lyrics are accompanied by more than 450 photographs and items of memorabilia, and an illuminating commentary of over 25,000 words. As told to journalist and author, Dylan Jones, Magic is Paul Weller's most candid and intimate account of his musical life to date. Collector copies also include two 8"x10" (200mm x254mm) lyric prints of one of Weller's favourite songs, 'Aspects', from his 2018 solo album True Meanings. Produced exclusively for the edition, Weller's handwritten lyrics to 'Aspects' are beautifully recreated over two sheets. The second print is numbered, stamped, and both are suitable for framing. I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a beautiful fully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that fascinating. It’s magic.’ ― Paul Weller

I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a beautiful fully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that fascinating. It's magic.' - PAUL WELLERIn Magic: A Journal of Song, Paul Weller talks about his life and music through a personally curated selection of over 100 songs spanning his entire musical career. In 1985 he joined a Left-wing music collective called Red Wedge. While Weller is no longer angry or young, Jones feels the singer still holds his socialist convictions. He had a love-hate relationship with Woking,” he adds. “I think a lot of people are desperate to leave home when they are a teenager because they want to explore the world. You could tell there were other areas he wanted to explore. He felt he wouldn’t be able to do that under the umbrella of The Jam.”John Lydon [Sex Pistols] looked as though he’d shout at you, Sid Vicious [also Sex Pistols] looked as though he’d thump you, and Joe Strummer [The Clash] looked as though he’d give you a lecture. Weller just looked as though he’d tell you to f*** off and be done with it.

His commitment and passion for creative work is bound up in anything that he believes personally. It comes down to passion, really.” I think it’s very rare you can look at an artist, a songwriter or a musician – look at the work they did in their 50s and 60s – and say categorically that it’s as good as, if not better, than the music they produced when they were younger. It’s very, very rare.There is talent and there is skill, but there’s a certain amount of magic attached to songwriting.' – Paul Weller I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a beautiful fully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that fascinating. It's magic.' - PAUL WELLER The son of a taxi-driver dad and cleaning-lady mum, working-class Weller was, according to Jones, “embarrassed about being Offering unprecedented insight into Weller's creative process, his lyrics are accompanied by more than 450 photographs and items of memorabilia, and an illuminating commentary of over 25,000 words.

Binding: The cover is an original, hand-drawn illustration containing over 25 references to Paul Weller's lyrics.

In Magic: A Journal of Song , Paul Weller talks about his life and music through a personally curated selection of over 100 songs spanning his entire musical career. Nonetheless, as Jones says, his youthful embarrassment of the parochial Woking, and a feeling of being excluded from the cool London scene, was partly what drove Weller towards his love of Mod fashion.

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