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release date: Mar. 1983
format: vinyl (TSC1)
[single rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,62]
producer: Peter Wilson and Paul Weller
label: Polydor Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: A) "Speak Like a Child" (4 / 5) - B) "Party Chambers" (3 / 5)
First single release by The Style Council. The A-side track could easily have been enlisted as a final single release by The Jam without sounding like something completely different when thinking of that band's final single "Beat Surrender". This is not the sophisti-pop style that The Style Council would become associated with, but it's more pure pop soul. Here the band only consists of Paul Weller and Mick Talbot with Zeke Manyika playing drums and Tracie Young singing backing vocals (both credited as hon. councillors). I bought the single upon its release after hearing it on MTV and it really only made me ready to purchase the band's debut album as soon as it landed.
