‘START!’ By THE JAM – No 1 Hit Single In The UK 39 Years Ago Today…

Knockouts from the past

6 September 2019

Band: The Jam
Song: Start!
Album: Sound Affects – their fifth LP
Note: It was the band’s eleventh UK single and their second number-one,
following double A-side single ‘Going Underground’/’Dreams of Children’.
‘Start!’ is strongly influenced by both the main guitar riff & bass riff of
The Beatles‘ 1966 song “Taxman” from the album Revolver, written by
George Harrison. Also, B-side ‘Liza Radley‘ borrows from ‘Taxman
Success: Topped the UK Singles Chart on 6 September 1980,
39 years ago today

Here are the Fab Four, sorry, I mean The Weller Trio…

THE JAM: Facebook

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