“The Changing Man” by Paul Weller

Paul Weller opened the Stanley Road campaign with "The Changing Man" (sometimes run together as "The Changingman") in April 1995, a Go! Discs single that got to number seven in the UK and announced his third solo album with a swagger. Weller wrote it with Brendan Lynch and produced it with him too, and he's all over the take: lead vocal, guitar, piano, even the shakers. Steve Cradock adds guitar, Dr. Robert plays bass, Steve White drives it from the kit, and Carleen Anderson and Dr. Robert fill in the backing voices.

Weller said the title came from a name his daughter Leah gave one of her dolls, though his friend Terry Rawlings was managing a band called that at the time. The song is his creed of kicking things over before they get too cosy, sung a year after his divorce from Dee C. Lee ended a marriage that had looked blissful from the outside.

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