'I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing
a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a
beautiful fully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that
again? I still find that fascinating. It's magic.' - PAUL WELLER
In Magic: A Journal of Song, Paul Weller talks about his life and
music through a personally curated selection of over 100 songs spanning
his entire musical career.
As one of the most innovative and remarkable songwriters of the last 50
years, Paul Weller has proved to be the ultimate shapeshifter, moving
from The Jam's punk sensibilities to the genre-defying Style Council,
and later through a remarkable 30-year solo career. Alongside Lennon and
McCartney, Weller is one of few artists that has attained a UK number
one album over five consecutive decades, and has also received career
defining awards from the BRITs (Lifetime Achievement Award), NME
Awards (Godlike Genius Award) and a GQ Award for Songwriter of the
Year.
Magic: A Journal of Song is the definitive book of Weller's
songwriting career from founding The Jam in his teenage years, to
creating The Style Council, through to his years as a solo musician.
Offering unprecedented insight into Weller's creative process, his
lyrics are accompanied by more than 450 photographs and items of
memorabilia, and an illuminating commentary of over 25,000 words. As
told to journalist and author, Dylan Jones, Magic is Paul Weller's
most candid and intimate account of his musical life to date.
'Paul Weller has proved that he is not only beyond reproach, in some
senses he is quite possibly without equal.' - DYLAN JONES OBE
'The thing I have discovered is that music in its truest sense is beyond
any trend or movement or category.' - PAUL WELLER
