Weller, Paul (1958– )

English singer-songwriter, widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential figures in British popular music in the 1990s. Weller began his musical career in the Jam, a 1970s punk rock group whose music has had an impact on almost every British guitar band in the 1980s and 1990s, and then formed the Style Council in 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1992, and released Wild Wood in 1993 which won the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1994. The 1995 album Stanley Road was his most successful release since the Jam, selling nearly one million copies in the UK.

Weller was born in Woking, Surrey. His debut solo album was Paul Weller (1992). Later albums included Heavy Soul (1997), Modern Classics: Greatest Hits (1998), Heliocentric (2000), Days of Speed (2001), Illumination (2002), and Studio 150 (2004).