1979 London. Victoria Station. It's just bloody exciting to walk into Virgin records and see Eton Rifles at number 4 on the charts. Did the Jam chart in Australia. Probably not until Malice. As a chart junkie Australian charts had long ago lost their hold on me. And here I am in a country where The Jam and The Clash are battling it out in the the top 10. And I'm in a train station. It's just so English. I had already bought Setting Suns but seeing the picture sleeve of the Jam single I knew I had to get that too. I brought back a lot of picture sleeves singles from the UK that winter. There were a lot of sales on. And a lot of the stuff was the new Mod bands. So I came home with a big collection of mod singles. But also a lot of new stuff which had dropped out of the charts.
A couple of years ago I saw Paul Weller at the Forum. He played Eton Rifles. It rose the roof. A few months before that Little Murders supported From The Jam. Bruce and Rick from the Jam. Eton Rifles. Big song. Even better live.
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