Paul Weller (Photo: Live4ever Media)
As another new year begins, Paul Weller has once again ruled out any prospect of The Jam getting back together in 2013.
“I take my hat off to people like the Stones but it’s not for me,” he has told The Sun. “I couldn’t do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn’t make my career out of old songs, it would do my head in.”
The ongoing trend for high profile reunions has left The Jam and The Smiths as arguably the two biggest names to yet be lured out of retirement by big money offers of comeback tours and festival appearances. Former members of both bands continue to be pestered about the chances of a return but, as with Morrissey and Marr, Paul Weller remains resolute in his refusal to restart the group he disbanded back in 1982.
“We haven’t had 30 years of us continuing making lousy records, which is the case for some bands,” he continued. “No way would it happen. You can’t recapture those things, and also why should you? It would be absurd – three 50-year-old geezers jumping around the stage.”