Precious (The Jam song)

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"Precious"
Single by The Jam
from the album The Gift
A-side"Town Called Malice"
Released29 January 1982
Recorded1981
GenreFunk
Length4:12
LabelPolydor (UK)[1]
Songwriter(s)Paul Weller[1]
Producer(s)Peter Wilson and The Jam[2]
The Jam singles chronology
"Absolute Beginners"
(1981) 		"Precious" / "Town Called Malice"
(1982) 		"Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?"
(1982)

"Precious" is a song composed by Paul Weller and performed by the British band The Jam.

It appears on The Jam's 1982 album The Gift and also as a double A-Side single along with "Town Called Malice". It reached number one in the UK Singles Chart,[3] although the song received much less airplay than "Town Called Malice".[citation needed] It was a departure for the band from their punk and mod roots, involving a funk-like sound that the band had not previously explored. Some fans and critics have noticed the song contains a number of similarities to "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag", which was a relatively new release itself at the time. Weller himself was to admit in 1998 he had indeed used this song as part of the inspiration for Precious.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Jo Rice (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.[page needed]
  2. ^ "JAM | Artist". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  3. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 277. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. ^ "Last Man Standing". wellerworld.co.uk. 1998-05-01. Retrieved 2017-01-08.


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