THE JAM Scored Their Final No. 1 Hit In The UK 42 Years Ago Today With ‘BEAT SURRENDER’

Top singles from the past

4 December 2024

Band: THE JAM
Song: BEAT SURRENDER

There were two formats available. A double 7″ and a 12″ single version
featuring cover versions of The Chi-Lites‘ ‘Stoned Out of My Mind‘, Curtis
Mayfield
‘s ‘Move on Up’ and Edwin Starr‘s ‘War’.

Beat Surrender was The Jam‘s final single.
It topped the charts in the UK on 4 Dec 1982,
42 years ago today. Two months earlier
Paul Weller called it a day for one of the
most British popular bands ever.

Turn up the beat.

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