On 11 th December 2022 it was 40 years since The Jam took their final bows at the Brighton Conference Centre, leaving an army of fans devastated. The curtains may have long since closed on The Jam’s short but incredible career, but the memories will never fade. To mark this milestone event I have compiled my fifth online “scrapbook”. I hope you will enjoy reading. To kick start things I want to take you back to the Rochester Castle pub in Stoke Newington during the very early days of punk. The Jam were a band very few people were aware of and even fewer had witnessed live on stage. One person who does not fit into either of those categories is Adrian Fox. Before handing over to Adrian to tell his amazing story I would like to share with you a little background about how we came to be introduced. In my last scrapbook I included a piece about an excellent book called ‘Out Of Control’ written by Tony Beesley of Days Like Tomorrow books . I enjoyed the book so much that I was keen t