Paul Weller (Rock Singer) – Overview, Biography

Name:Paul Weller
Occupation: Rock Singer
Gender:Male
Height:180 cm (5′ 11”)
Birth Day: May 25,
1958
Age: 62
Birth Place: Sheerwater,
England
Zodiac Sign:Gemini

Paul Weller

Paul Weller was born on May 25, 1958 in Sheerwater, England (62 years old). Paul Weller is a Rock Singer, zodiac sign: Gemini. Nationality: England. Approx. Net Worth: $10 Million.

Trivia

He won the 2009 BRIT Award for Best Male Solo Artist.

Net Worth 2020

$10 Million
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Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
180 cm (5′ 11”) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Before Fame

He started to love music when he attended the school Sheerwater County Secondary. He and The Jam assembled in 1976.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1958

Weller was born on 25 May 1958 in Woking, Surrey, England, to John and Ann Weller (née Craddock). Although born John William Weller, he became known as Paul by his parents.

1963

His father worked as a taxi driver and a builder and his mother was a part-time cleaner. Weller started his education at Maybury County First School in 1963. His love of music began with The Beatles, then The Who and Small Faces. By the time Weller was eleven and moving up to Sheerwater County Secondary school, music was the biggest part of his life, and he had started playing the guitar.

1972

Weller’s musical vocation was confirmed after seeing Status Quo in concert in 1972. He formed the first incarnation of The Jam in the same year, playing bass guitar with his best friends Steve Brookes (lead guitar) and Dave Waller (rhythm guitar). Weller’s father, acting as their manager, began booking the band into local working men’s clubs. Joined by Rick Buckler on drums, and with Bruce Foxton soon replacing Waller on rhythm guitar, the four-piece band began to forge a local reputation, playing a mixture of Beatles covers and a number of compositions written by Weller and Brookes. Brookes left the band in 1976, and Weller and Foxton decided they would swap guitar roles, with Weller now the guitarist.

1977

The Jam’s first single, “In the City”, took them into the UK Top 40 in May 1977. Although every subsequent single had a placing within the Top 40, it was not until the band released the political “The Eton Rifles” that it would break into the Top 10, hitting the No. 3 spot in November 1979. The increasing popularity of their blend of Weller’s barbed lyrics with pop melodies eventually led to their first number one single, “Going Underground”, in March 1980.

1982

As the band’s popularity increased, however, Weller became restless and wanted to explore a more soulful, melodic style of music with a broader instrumentation, and in consequence in 1982 he announced that The Jam would disband at the end of that year. The action came as a surprise to Foxton and Buckler who both felt that the band was still a creative formation with scope to develop further professionally, but Weller was determined to end the band and move on. Their final single, “Beat Surrender”, became their fourth UK chart topper, going straight to No. 1 in its first week. Their farewell concerts at Wembley Arena were multiple sell-outs; their final concert took place at the Brighton Centre on 11 December 1982.

1984

Many of The Style Council’s early singles performed well in the charts, and Weller would also experience his first success in North America, when “My Ever Changing Moods” and “You’re The Best Thing” entered the US Billboard Hot 100. In Australia it was far more successful than The Jam, reaching the top of the charts in 1984 with “Shout to the Top”.

In December 1984, Weller put together his own charity ensemble called The Council Collective to make a record, “Soul Deep”, to raise money for striking miners, and the family of David Wilkie. The record featured The Style Council plus a number of other performers, notably Jimmy Ruffin and Junior Giscombe. In spite of the song’s political content, it still picked up BBC Radio 1 airplay and was performed on Top of the Pops, which led to the incongruous sight of lyrics such as “We can’t afford to let the government win / It means death to the trade unions” being mimed amid the show’s flashing lights and party atmosphere.

1985

Weller appeared on 1984’s Band Aid record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and was called upon to mime the absent Bono’s lyrics on Top of the Pops. The Style Council was the second act to appear in the British half of Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985.

1987

Soon after the formation of The Style Council, Weller and Dee C. Lee, The Style Council’s backing singer, began a romantic relationship. The couple married in 1987 and divorced in 1998. They have two children, Leah and Nathaniel (Natt), who is also a working musician and once appeared on stage with his father at Hammersmith Apollo at age 12.

1989

As the 1980s wore on, The Style Council’s popularity in the UK began to slide, with the band achieving only one top ten single after 1985. The Style Council’s death knell was sounded in 1989 when its record company refused to release its fifth and final studio album, the house-influenced Modernism: A New Decade. With the rejection of this effort, Weller announced that The Style Council had split, and although the final album did have a limited vinyl run, it was not until the 1998 retrospective CD box set The Complete Adventures of The Style Council that the album would be widely available.

In 1989, Weller found himself without a band and without a recording deal for the first time since he was 17. After taking time off throughout 1990, he returned to the road in 1991, touring as “The Paul Weller Movement” with long-term drummer and friend Steve White and Paul Francis (session bassist from The James Taylor Quartet). After a slow start playing small clubs with a mixture of Jam/Style Council classics as well as showcasing new material such as “Into Tomorrow”, by the time of the release of his 1992 LP, Paul Weller, he had begun to re-establish himself as a leading British singer-songwriter. This self-titled album saw a return to a more jazz-guitar-focused sound, featuring samples and a funk influence with shades of the Style Council sound. The album also featured a new producer, Brendan Lynch. Tracks such as “Here’s a New Thing” and “That Spiritual Feeling” were marketed among the emerging acid jazz scene.

1993

Buoyed by the positive commercial and critical success of his first solo album, Weller returned to the studio in 1993 with a renewed confidence. Accompanied by Steve White, guitarist Steve Cradock and bassist Damon Minchella, the result of these sessions was the triumphant Mercury Music Prize-nominated Wild Wood, which included “Sunflower”.

1995

His 1995 album Stanley Road took him back to the top of the British charts for the first time in a decade, and went on to become the best-selling album of his career. The album, named after the street in Woking where he had grown up, marked a return to the more guitar-based style of his earlier days. The album’s major single, “The Changingman”, was also a big hit, taking Weller to No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart. Another single, the ballad “You Do Something To Me”, was his second consecutive Top 10 single and reached No. 9 in the UK.

1998

Heavy Soul, the follow-up to the million-selling Stanley Road, saw Weller twist his sound again. The album was more raw than its predecessor; Weller was now frequently playing live in the studio in as few takes as possible. The first single “Peacock Suit” reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart, and the album reached No. 2. Success in the charts also came from compilations: “Best Of” albums by The Jam and The Style Council charted, and in 1998 his own solo collection Modern Classics was a substantial success.

2000

In 2000, while living in Send, Surrey, he released his fifth solo studio album, Heliocentric. Once again finding himself without a record contract, Weller’s Days of Speed worldwide tour provided him with the opportunity to view his works as one back catalogue, giving rise to a second successful live album in 2001. Days of Speed contained live acoustic versions from the world tour of the same name, including some of his best-known songs from his solo career and the back catalogues of his The Jam and The Style Council days.

2002

There were rumours at the time that Heliocentric would be Weller’s final studio effort, but these proved unfounded when he released the No. 1 hit album Illumination in September 2002. Co-produced by Noonday Underground’s Simon Dine, it was preceded by yet another top 10 hit single “It’s Written in the Stars”. Weller also appears on the 2002 Noonday Underground album called Surface Noise, singing on the track “I’ll Walk Right On”.

In 2002, Weller collaborated with Terry Callier on the single “Brother to Brother”, which featured on Callier’s album Speak Your Peace. In 2003, Weller teamed up with electronic rock duo Death in Vegas on a cover of Gene Clark’s “So You Say You Lost Your Baby”, which featured on their Scorpio Rising album.

2004

In 2004, Weller released an album of covers entitled Studio 150. It debuted at No. 2 in the UK charts and included Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” as well as covers of songs by Gil Scott-Heron, Rose Royce and Gordon Lightfoot, amongst others.

2005

Weller’s 2005 album As Is Now featured the singles “From The Floorboards Up”, “Come On/Let’s Go” and “Here’s The Good News”. The album was well-received, though critics noted that he was not moving his music forward stylistically, and it became his lowest-charting album since his 1992 debut.

2006

In February 2006 it was announced that Weller would be the latest recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BRIT Awards. Despite a tendency to shun such occasions, Weller accepted the award in person, and performed four songs at the ceremony, including The Jam’s classic “Town Called Malice”. In June 2006, another double live album titled Catch-Flame!, featuring songs from both his solo work and his career with The Jam and The Style Council, was released. In late 2006, the album Hit Parade was released, which collected all the singles released by The Jam, The Style Council and Weller during his solo career. Two versions of this album were released: a single disc with a selection from each stage of his career, and a four-disc limited edition, which included every single released and came with a 64-page booklet. Weller was offered appointment as a Commander of the Order of British Empire in the 2006 birthday honours, but rejected the offer.

2007

In 2007 Weller was guest vocalist on the album issue by the folk musical project The Imagined Village.

2008

The double album 22 Dreams was released on 2 June 2008, with “Echoes Round The Sun” as the lead single. Weller had parted company with his existing band before the recording this album, replacing everyone except guitarist Steve Cradock with Andy Lewis on bass, Andy Crofts of The Moons on keys and Steve Pilgrim of The Stands on drums. This album saw Weller move in a more experimental direction, taking in a wide variety of influences including jazz, folk and tango as well as the pop-soul more associated with his Style Council days. Weller also featured on two songs from The Moons’ album “Life on Earth”, playing piano on “Wondering” and lead guitar on “Last Night on Earth”.

In October 2008, Stock and Weller broke up and Weller moved in with Hannah Andrews, a backing singer on his 22 Dreams album, who has also toured with his band. They married in September 2010 on the Italian island of Capri. The couple have twin boys, John Paul and Bowie, who were born in 2012. The couple also have a daughter, Nova, who was born in 2017.

2009

In 2009, Weller guested on Dot Allison’s 2009 album, Room 7½, co-writing “Love’s Got Me Crazy”. November and December also saw him on tour, playing shows across the country.

On 24 April 2009, John Weller, Paul Weller’s father and long-time manager since the days of The Jam, died from pneumonia at the age of 77.

2010

On 24 February 2010, Weller received the Godlike Genius Award at the NME Awards. His 2010 album, Wake Up the Nation, was released in April to critical acclaim, and was subsequently nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. The album also marked his first collaboration with The Jam’s bassist Bruce Foxton in 28 years. In May 2010, Weller was presented with the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award, saying “I’ve enjoyed the last 33 years I’ve been writing songs and hopefully, with God’s good grace, I’ll do some more.”

2011

On 22 November 2011, Weller announced his eleventh studio album Sonik Kicks, which was released on 19 March 2012.

2012

On 8 November 2012, Weller announced that he would release the Dragonfly EP on 17 December 2012, a limited edition vinyl run of 3000 copies.

Weller provided vocals on The Moons’ 2012 single Something Soon. In December 2012, Weller headlined the Crisis charity gig at the Hammersmith Apollo, where he performed with Emeli Sande, Miles Kane and Bradley Wiggins. On 23 March 2013, Paul Weller played drums on stage with Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon, playing the Blur track “Tender”. This was played as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts curated by Noel Gallagher.

2014

In 2014, Weller wrote “Let Me In” for Olly Murs’s fourth album Never Been Better.

In 2014, Weller won £10,000 in damages from Associated Newspapers after “plainly voyeuristic” photographs of his family out shopping were published on MailOnline.

2015

In May 2015, Weller revealed dates for a West Coast Tour of the US to promote the Saturn’s Pattern album. The tour was scheduled to run from 9 June to 9 October.

2017

In January 2017 he made a cameo appearance in “The Final Problem”, the final episode of series four of the BBC TV series Sherlock.

2019

In January 2019, Weller announced the 8 March 2019 audio and video release of Other Aspects, Live At The Royal Festival Hall. It’s the second of two shows and was recorded in October 2018 at London’s Royal Festival Hall with an orchestra.

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Currently, Paul Weller is 63 years, 2 months and 4 days old. Paul Weller will celebrate 64th birthday on a Wednesday 25th of May 2022.

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