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Bruce Foxton
Bruce Foxton
British musician
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Rick Buckler
Rick Buckler
British musician
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Paul Weller
Paul Weller
English recording artist; singer-songwriter, musician
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Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers
punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland
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The Vapors
The Vapors
British band
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The Merton Parkas
The Merton Parkas
band
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Steve Cradock
Steve Cradock
English guitarist
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The Boys
The Boys
English punk rock band
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Roddy Radiation
Roddy Radiation
British musician
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Gang of Four
Gang of Four
English rock band
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The Saints
The Saints
Australian band
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Primal Scream
Primal Scream
Scottish rock band
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Cowboy Mouth
Cowboy Mouth
American rock band
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Flipper
Flipper
American band
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The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem
American rock band
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Wire
Wire
English rock band
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The Shadows
The Shadows
British rock group
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T. Rex
T. Rex
English rock band
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Toy Dolls
Toy Dolls
English punk rock band
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The Futureheads
The Futureheads
band
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The Family Cat
The Family Cat
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
British band
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The Highliners
The Highliners
musical artist
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The Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens
Australian indie rock band
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The Ataris
The Ataris
band
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Amber Pacific
Amber Pacific
band
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Clutch
Clutch
American rock band
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Goodnight Nurse
Goodnight Nurse
New Zealand pop punk band
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Hot Hot Heat
Hot Hot Heat
Canadian band
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McBride & the Ride
McBride & the Ride
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Slint
Slint
band
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Supertramp
Supertramp
British band
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The The
The The
English musical and multimedia group
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The Who
The Who
English rock band
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Masters of Reality
Masters of Reality
American rock band
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Skids
Skids
rock band from Scotland
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
British rock group
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The Undertones
The Undertones
Northern Irish band
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Change
Change
Italian-American post-disco group
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Cock Sparrer
Cock Sparrer
British Punk/Oi! Band
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The Men They Couldn't Hang
The Men They Couldn't Hang
band
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The Living End
The Living End
Australian band
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The Troggs
The Troggs
English band
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Cream
Cream
1960s British rock supergroup

The Jam were an English mod revival/punk rock band during the 1970s and early 1980s, which formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, in the county of Surrey. The band released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" remain the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, hit number one on the UK Albums Chart. When the group disbanded in 1982, their first 15 singles were re-released and all placed within the top 100.

While the Jam shared the "angry young man" outlook and fast tempo of the mid-1970s British punk rock movement, in contrast with it the band wore smartly tailored suits reminiscent of English pop-bands in the early 1960s and incorporated mainstream 1960s rock and R&B influences into its sound, particularly from the Who's work of that period and also drew influence from the work of the Kinks and the music of American Motown. This placed the act at the forefront of the 1970s–1980s nascent Mod Revival movement. With many of the band's lyrics about working class life, Jam biographer Sean Egan commented that they "took social protest and cultural authenticity to the top of the charts."

The band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. The trio were known for their melodic pop songs, their distinctly English flavour and their mod image. The band launched the career of Paul Weller, who went on to form the Style Council and later his solo career. Weller wrote and sang most of the Jam's original compositions and played lead guitar, using a Rickenbacker 330. Bruce Foxton provided backing vocals and prominent basslines, which were the foundation of many of the band's songs, including the hits "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", "The Eton Rifles", "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice" mainly using a Rickenbacker 4001 or a Fender Precision Bass, as well as, on rare occasions, an Epiphone Rivoli.