However, Confessions of a Pop Group, released a year later, sold poorly. In 1986, the band released a live album, Home and Abroad, and, in 1987, The Cost of Loving was launched, followed later in the year by the non-album single "Wanted", which reached No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart. I think after a while that overshadowed the music a bit". He later said that this began to detract from the music: "We were involved with a lot of political things going on at that time. Weller was also instrumental in the formation of Red Wedge with Billy Bragg. The Style Council took a more overtly political approach than The Jam in their lyrics, with tracks such as "Walls Come Tumbling Down", "The Lodgers", and "Come To Milton Keynes" being deliberate attacks on ' middle England' and Thatcherite principles prevalent in the 1980s. In spite of the song's political content, it still picked up BBC Radio 1 airplay and was performed on Top of the Pops.
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The record featured The Style Council plus a number of other performers, notably Jimmy Ruffin and Junior Giscombe. In December 1984, Weller put together a charity ensemble, the Council Collective, to make a record, "Soul Deep", to raise money for striking miners, and the family of David Wilkie. The song remains Weller's greatest success in the US (including his efforts in The Jam and as a solo artist), while the group reached the peak of its success in the UK with the 1985 album Our Favourite Shop. In 1984, the single "My Ever-Changing Moods", backed with the Hammond organ instrumental "Mick's Company", reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The Dutch version was heavily imported to the United Kingdom. Near the end of 1983, these songs were compiled on Introducing The Style Council, a mini-albuminitially released in Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, and the US only. Singles " Speak Like a Child" (with its loud soul-influenced style), the extended funk of "Money-Go-Round", and the synth- ballad "Long Hot Summer" all featured Talbot on keyboards and organ. The band showed a diversity of musical styles.
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