Writer Paul Weller was inspired to write “Start” after reading a book entitled “Homage to Catalonia” (1938) by George Orwell. More specifically he was moved by the way Orwell depicted the Barcelona of old as a utopia-like, egalitarian...
The Jam’s frontman, Paul Weller, is from Woking, England. This is a place which he himself has described as a “suburban town”. And the “town called Malice” is actually a reference to Woking, with the titular...