Thursday music corner: The Style Council were a 1980s band comprising vocalist Paul Weller and keyboardist Mick Talbot, and are seen as the vehicle by which Weller exited his punk-pop phase embodied by his chart-topping band The Jam, and bridged the gap to Weller's later, Mod-influenced solo career.
The European and jazz influences of the Style Council were expressed in four studio albums from 1984 to 1988 including 1985 chart-topper Our Favourite Shop, plus one final album delving into house music that label Polydor rejected, and which wasn't released until 1998. The band scored 16 UK top 40 singles, including four that reached the UK top 5: debut single Speak Like A Child (#4, 1983), Long Hot Summer, which appeared on the À Paris EP (#3, 1983), My Ever Changing Moods (#5, 1984) and You're The Best Thing, which appeared on the Groovin' EP (#5, 1984).
The 12-inch extended version of Long Hot Summer appeared on both the Introducing the Style Council mini-LP released outside the UK in 1983, and in the UK on the À Paris EP released in August 1983. It was the band's highest-charting UK single, and also reached number 3 in Ireland.
Style Council - Long Hot Summer (12-inch version) (1983)
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