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1981 Singles Poll

As regular readers and people who follow me on X will know, I am partial to running the odd poll here and there (via my X account). I've been doing it for a couple of years now. In the beginning the questions mainly focussed on songs by The Jam, which will I’m sure come as no surprise! You’ll see references to these polls dotted throughout The Jam scrapbooks on this blog and I also dedicated a couple of pages of my 40 th anniversary fanzine to listing the winners in certain categories. The biggest undertaking was a poll to find out people’s favourite Weller-penned lyrics spanning the whole of his career. I don’t mind admitting I thought I’d bitten off more than I could chew with that one! It wasn’t just Paul who came under the spotlight either. Bruce Foxton and the late Rick Buckler have also had polls dedicated to them. Well actually, Rick had an entire tribute post dedicated to him, which you can read here. When I felt I’d exhausted the subject of The Jam’s material I moved ov...