The mysterious, uncredited Cappuccino Kid-widely believed to be Paolo Hewitt, a confidant and biographer of Weller’s until they had a falling out in the 2000s-penned righteous manifestos for the band’s liner notes.
WHO WAS IN THE STYLE COUNCIL MOD
They swapped punk and mod for jazz and soul as musical touchstones, and the group expanded this obsession through the ’80s, incorporating house and garage to an extent that their record label rejected their final album for veering too far into the dance-music realm. The group’s first single, “Speak Like a Child,” shared a title with a 1968 Blue Note LP by Herbie Hancock they designed the album cover of 1985’s Our Favourite Shop so that it spilled over with the books, fashion, music, and film they cherished most. Signifiers were a big deal for the Style Council. Here, he’s cavorting shirtless, so carefree he’s nearly camp, embracing the hint of sexual ambiguity with the same gusto with which he has a beatnik bongo player join their party.
Weller scowled through most of the Jam, adopting the look intense young men wear when they’re seriously making serious music. In the video for 1983’s “ Long Hot Summer”-their third single and the song that lends its title to this new anthology-Talbot spends his time rowing a bare-chested Weller to a riverside picnic later, Tabot would literally carry Weller’s bags in the clip for “ Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Absurd as the images may be, there’s an endearing playfulness to the videos that’s telling. Weller enlisted Mick Talbot, a keyboardist who previously played with Jam disciples the Merton Parkas, as his lieutenant, but it was clear from the outset who was in charge.
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