Going Underground

I'm, I'm, I'm backing underdogs at this point.

And then they keep b- building and building, and I'm getting kind of like more and more welcomed in the camp, and then when Going Underground hits number one and they're suddenly the biggest band in the country, you know, I say the doors started closing on some other people who were hanging out, um, 'cause there was a lot of them.

There used to be sort of open door policy at the recording studios and, uh, um, and I think I say in the book when things became like on a need-to-know basis, I found myself one of those in the know, and I was never completely sure why.

And, and I, I, I ask myself the, you know, that very question in the book, and it's like, well, maybe it's because I backed them when they were underdogs.

In 1980, they released Sound Effects.

This produced Going Underground.

As their first UK No. 1 single, and the jam were now one of Britain's biggest bands.

In 1982, they released The Gift, their final studio album, moved even further from the original punk-mod template, incorporating funk, soul, and R&B, a town called Malice.

I could enter these musical places and it kind of crept up on me, but it's funny.

It was, I remember age, age 11, age 12, the jam had a single called going underground that went straight to number one here.

And I remember going to a news agent called WH Smiths and they sold posters of bands.

And I think it was more to do with a post that it was, it was at that time because there was also regatta debunked by the police.

And it's insane to think that, but when you don't have any closure of someone you love dying, when they just disappear, there is a natural tendency every now and then to just think, God, shit, she might actually be alive.

My brother, we know he's dead, and we played Going Underground by The Jam at his funeral, which actually seemed entirely appropriate.

You've got to celebrate life no matter what.

So because of all of that, I became, anyone who worked with me will know this is true.