49K views · 737 reactions | From The Jam!! Playing in our studio this morning. Russell Hastings and Bruce Foxton in the frame. This is just the warmup. So excited. SEE THEM LIVE IF YOU CAN — THEY ARE FANTASTIC! From The Jam (Official Band Page) Jeremy Vine On 5 | The Jeremy Vine | Facebook

On this date in 1979, THE JAM released the single WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG / SMITHERS-JONES (Aug 17, 1979). “Life is timeless, days are long when you're young,” sang Weller in the opening line to WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG, as if he’d climbed right inside our teenage heads. A snarling blast against class inequality, the non-LP single WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG, originally released in August 1979, offered some of Weller’s sharpest lyrics to date. There was a contagiously joyful, vaguely off-beat rhythm at odds with the p

2K views · 78 reactions | 35 Years ago Beat Surrender was released by The Jam It was their final single and entered the UK Chart at No 1 The double pack release comprised of the original Disc 1 and limited a edition Disc 2 and came packaged in a unique gatefold picture sleeve. The A side of Disc 2 was a 'spunked up' cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up" Here they are performing it live on Channel 4's The Tube | Hawkins & Joseph | Facebook