Wanting to escape the angry, post-punk energy he'd gone a long way to defining
as front man of The Jam, Paul Weller set up the radically contrasting Style
Council with keyboard player and Hammond organ specialist Mick Talbot (ex of
Merton Parkas). Fashion-conscious and heavily reliant on mellow melodies built
around Talbot's instrumental nous, they released a mini-album Introducing The
Style Council in 1983 and had their first hit single the following year with My
Ever-Changing Moods; featuring Steve White on drums and Weller's then wife Dee
C. Lee on backing vocals. Yet, while c...