Absolute Beginners (The Jam song)

Absolute Beginners (The Jam song)

Infobox Single
Name = Absolute Beginners


Artist = The Jam
from Album =
B-sides = Tales From the Riverbank
Released = 1981-10-24
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Mod Revival
Length = 2:50
Label = Polydor
Writer = Paul Weller
Producer = Peter Wilson and The Jam
Certification =
Last single = "Funeral Pyre"
(1981)
This single = "Absolute Beginners"
(1981)
Next single = "A Town Called Malice"
(1982)
"Absolute Beginners" was a single released by The Jam on 24th October 1981. Although it did not appear on any of the band's studio albums, it reached #4 in the UK Singles chart. It was named after the Colin MacInnes novel of the same name, which Weller regarded as a highly influential novel.

"Tales From The Riverbank" appeared as the B-side. The band's record company Polydor later admitted that "Tales From The Riverbank" should have been released as the A-side.


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