'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 beautifulfully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that fascinating. It's magic.' - Paul Weller
InMagic: A Journal of Song, PaulWellertalks 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,PaulWellerhas proved to be the ultimate shapeshifter, moving from The Jam's punk sensibilities to the genre-defying Style Council, and later through a remarkable30-year solo career. Alongside Lennon and McCartney,Welleris 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),NMEAwards (Godlike Genius Award) and aGQAward 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,hislyrics 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,Magicis Paul Weller's most candid and intimate account of his musical life to date.
'PaulWellerhas 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
