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  8286192CD  £6.00

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Go! Discs / Island/Def Jam

Paul Weller

Stanley Road [Rarities Edition]

one of rough trade's island 50th anniversary selection 50 crucial titles specially selected by us to highlight the unique contribution this seminal label has made to british music since 1959 'stanley road' is the third album by paul weller released by go discs in 1995 in 1998 q magazine readers voted it the 46th greatest album of all time the album's cover collage was created by the artist peter blake designer of the beatles' sgt pepper's album artwork album package design for weller was supervised by his longtime associate simon halfon weller claimed on a bbc special that he hopes he can one day create an album as perfect as this one stating that all the stars were aligned during the writing and recording period of stanley road the album had several notable contributors such as noel gallagher of oasis who appears playing acoustic guitar on 'i walk on gilded splinters' steve winwood formerly of the spencer davis group amongst others performs on the songs 'woodcutters son' and 'pink on white walls' whilst weller is also joined by longtime collaborators steve craddock cofounder of ocean colour scene and steve white the style council and brother of alan white the former oasis stick man