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Paul Weller talks about new album 22 DreamsArticle from: Herald Sun
Kathy McCabe
August 21, 2008 12:00am
THERE are music icons whose fame and status is announced by a single name. Then there is the Modfather, the enduring moniker of the very British Paul Weller.
It's not hard to see why the pseudonym has stuck to him decades after the musical stylings which inspired its acquisition have been usurped by the artist's desire for change.
In short, Weller, at 50, is still cool.
Sitting in a small studio just off Oxford St in London, the co-founder of The Jam, creative controller of The Style Council and master of his own domain through nine solo albums, looks like a man at ease.
His most recent musical offering, a double album called 22 Dreams, has once again seen him celebrated as one of the UK's finest craftsmen.
Weller turned 50 in May and the record appears to celebrate his eternal middle youth rather than announcing a mid-life crisis. He agrees that the rock'n'roll life sustains youth in outlook, if not in looks.
