

But it was the Style Council’s biggest, breeziest, brassiest hit, “My Ever Changing Moods,” that crowned Weller into what biographer Iain Munn called a “fair-skinned Smokey Robinson,” earned him his highest-selling single, and allowed the 1984 album it came from, “ Café Bleu,” to catapult him toward the top of a twinkling constellation of sophisti-pop superstars that shared the bourgie grandeur of his rebrand.

Later came other iterations of this new little prince: The video for “Boy Who Cried Wolf,” a deliciously syrupy song with its own scat section, stars a fez-clad Weller pensively staring into a hand mirror in a vacant English manor “Wanted (Or Waiter, There’s Some Soup in My Flies)” has him in pinstripes in a nightclub’s practice room. Rock Hard Rock Belgian Our Timeless New Wave Pop Jazz Metal Hip Hop & Rap Funk & Soul Reggae Dutch Blues Soundtrack Country Live Concert French World.
