Today, Paul Weller remains a true British icon, with a career in music spanning six decades. Both reissues were cut at London’s Metropolis Studios. Illumination is housed in a gatefold jacket, printed inner sleeve and a 16-page booklet. The double album Days of Speed has a gatefold jacket, printed inner sleeves and a one-page insert. These 2021 reissues feature faithful original packaging replication. What a surprise-just when you thought Weller would never do it again, he goes and does it.”
The Guardian on Illumination: “The trinity that opens his sixth solo album is his best work in ages, by turns love-besotted, politically outraged and burning with spite. With soul taking center stage and displaying effortless production and songwriting, Illumination includes the hit singles “It’s Written in the Stars” and “Leafy Mysteries” and features guest performances from Carleen Anderson, Jocelyn Brown, Kelly Jones and Noel Gallagher. Originally released in September 2002 on Independiente, Illumination was Weller’s sixth solo studio albumand his second solo number one. The album attracted considerable praise, with the NME describing it as “Live acoustic brilliance from the master songsmith.” Here he sounds intimate and alive, as if he were performing his favourite songs in your front room. The tracklisting features old classics which sit beautifully with Paul’s later catalogue and include The Jam’s “That’s Entertainment,” The Style Council’s “Headstart for Happiness” and solo hits “You Do Something to Me” and “Wild Wood.” This is Weller presenting his songs unplugged and in the raw.
Originally released on the Independiente imprint in 2001, Days of Speed is an acoustic, double live album featuring songs which were performed solo and acoustic at various venues around Europe. Craft Recordings are finally and faithfully re-releasing both albums in beautifully packaged 180-gram black vinyl sets. single 'Woo Sé Mama' live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The original vinyl versions of these fan favorites have been much sought after over the years. On October 3, Weller and band will perform his current U.K. Paolo Hewitt’s interview and this image ran as a cover story for Melody Maker, the headline read “The Punk and the Godfather.The long-awaited vinyl reissues of Paul Weller’s early ’00s long-players Days of Speed and Illumination will be released on October 15, 2021.
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Later I listened to Weller and Townshend talking about music, mods and life. Sir Paul Smith said this image “completely sums up my teenage years - self-conscious and fanatical about detail”. This is one of the first shots I took of them that afternoon – it is a moment in time – Weller looking so sharp in his pin stripe suit. I don’t think it will ever die … These clothes, my haircut, reflect my attitude and the music I listen to, and they say, ‘I am an individual’.” Paul Weller Los Angeles (IANS) - Veteran singer Paul Weller is loving his lockdown life. He later told Mojo magazine “You could say it’s a fashion statement, but I think it’s more than that: the working-class love of clothes, looking good, rising above your station. He had grown up with Paul in Woking, ‘Smalltown Britain’ where they had seen, as Weller said, “the top faces walking through Woking town center.” Weller’s look was resolutely Mod. My friend, the writer Paolo Hewitt, had organized the interview. We arranged to meet on Wardour Street in London outside the famous Marquee Club. In 1980 I went to photograph Paul Weller (of the The Jam) meeting his hero, Pete Townshend (of The Who) for the first time, for Melody Maker Magazine.
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