Biography:
punk and mod group formed in Woking, UK, in 1976 consisting of Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass, vocals) and Rick Buckler (drums). The band split in 1982. The band released six albums and had 18 consecutive Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1982, including four #1 singles (Going Underground, Start!, Town Called Malice and Beat Surrender). Their singles "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the Five O'Clock Hero" are the best selling import singles in UK history.
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Other songs:
- That's Entertainment
- Town Called Malice
- To Be Someone
- A Bomb In Wardour Street
- Absolute Beginners
- All Around The World
- All Mod Cons
- Art School
- Away From The Numbers
- Beat Surrender
- Billy Hunt
- Boy About Town
- Burning Sky
- But Im Different Now
- Carnaby Street
- Carnation
- David Watts
- Disguises
- Dont Tell Them Youre Sane
- Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
- Dream Time
- Endless Love
- English Rose
- Eton Rifles
- Funeral Pyre
- Ghosts
- Give Me Just A Little More Time
- Going Underground
- Happy Together
- Heatwave
- Here Comes The Weekend
- I Got By In Time
- I Need You For Someone
- In The City
- In The Crowd
- In The Midnight Hour
- In The Street Today
- Its Too Bad
- Just Who Is The 5 Oclock Hero
- Just Who Is The Five O Clock Hero
- Kilos Kabataan
- Life From A Window
- Liza Radley
- London Girl
- London Traffic
- Man In The Corner Shop
- Modern World
- Mr Clean
- News Of The World
- Non Stop Dancing
- Pity Poor Alfie
- Planners Dream Goes Wrong
- Precious
- Private Hell
- Reach Out Ill Be There
- Saturdays Kids
- Slow Down
- Smithers Jones
- So Sad About Us
- Sounds From The Street
- Standards
- Start
- Strange Town
- Sweet Soul Music
- Tales From The Riverbank
- Thats Entertainment
- The Bitterest Pill
- The Butterfly Collector
- The Combine
- The Gift
- The Modern World
- The Night
- The Place I Love
- The Planners Dream Goes Wrong
- Thick As Thieves
- This Is The Modern World
- To Be
- Tonight At Noon
- War
- Wasteland
- When Youre Young
- Worlds Apart
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27th December 2000, 7.57pm
AWAY FROM THE NUMBERS
(Paul Weller)
Chords used:
G: 355433
C: x3555x
G/F#: 255433
Em: 022000
D: xx0232 and x5777x
Am: 577555
F#: 244322
F: 133211
Bb: x1333x
G C G (x2)
G C G C G
Things are getting just a-too cosy for me,
C G C G
I'm not seeing people as they see me,
C G C G G/F# Em
Gonna break away and gain control,
D G
You free your mind, you free your soul.
C G C G
I was the type who knocked at old men (history's easy)
C G C G
Who together at tables sit and drink beer (somewhere is really)
C G C G G/F# Em
Then I saw that I was really the same,
D
So this link's breaking away from the chain.
G Am
Away from the numbers,
C
Away from the numbers
D
Is where I'm gonna be.
G Am
Away from the numbers,
C D
Away from the numbers
G
Is where I am free
G D C
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
G C D
Ooh, ooh, ooh...
G Am
Away from the numbers (away from the numbers)
C D
Away from the numbers (ooh-ooh-ooh)
G Am
Is where I'm gonna be.
G C G F# F
I was sick and tired of my little niche,
D
I'm gonna break away and find what life is.
C(slide to)D (x2) D G
C G C G
And all those fools I thought were my friends (coasting is easy)
C G C G
They now stare at me and don't see a thing (rea-lity's so hard)
C G C G G/F# Em
'Til their life is over and they start to moan,
D
How they've never had the chance to make it good.
G Am
Away from the numbers,
C
Away from the numbers
D
Is where I'm gonna be,
G Am
Away from the numbers (away from the numbers)
C D
Away from the numbers
G D
Is where I am free (ooh-ooh-ooh)
G D
Is where I am free (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Is where I'm gonna be (ooh-ooh-ooh)
G D
It's reality (ooh-ooh-ooh)
C G F G
G C G F G (x3)
G C G F G
Reality's so hard (x6)
C(slide to)D (x2)
Bb(slide to)C
F(slide to)G
27th December 2000, 7.57pm
AWAY FROM THE NUMBERS
(Paul Weller)
Chords used:
G: 355433
C: x3555x
G/F#: 255433
Em: 022000
D: xx0232 and x5777x
Am: 577555
F#: 244322
F: 133211
Bb: x1333x
G C G (x2)
G C G C G
Things are getting just a-too cosy for me,
C G C G
I'm not seeing people as they see me,
C G C G G/F# Em
Gonna break away and gain control,
D G
You free your mind, you free your soul.
C G C G
I was the type who knocked at old men (history's easy)
C G C G
Who together at tables sit and drink beer (somewhere is really)
C G C G G/F# Em
Then I saw that I was really the same,
D
So this link's breaking away from the chain.
G Am
Away from the numbers,
C
Away from the numbers
D
Is where I'm gonna be.
G Am
Away from the numbers,
C D
Away from the numbers
G
Is where I am free
G D C
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
G C D
Ooh, ooh, ooh...
G Am
Away from the numbers (away from the numbers)
C D
Away from the numbers (ooh-ooh-ooh)
G Am
Is where I'm gonna be.
G C G F# F
I was sick and tired of my little niche,
D
I'm gonna break away and find what life is.
C(slide to)D (x2) D G
C G C G
And all those fools I thought were my friends (coasting is easy)
C G C G
They now stare at me and don't see a thing (rea-lity's so hard)
C G C G G/F# Em
'Til their life is over and they start to moan,
D
How they've never had the chance to make it good.
G Am
Away from the numbers,
C
Away from the numbers
D
Is where I'm gonna be,
G Am
Away from the numbers (away from the numbers)
C D
Away from the numbers
G D
Is where I am free (ooh-ooh-ooh)
G D
Is where I am free (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Is where I'm gonna be (ooh-ooh-ooh)
G D
It's reality (ooh-ooh-ooh)
C G F G
G C G F G (x3)
G C G F G
Reality's so hard (x6)
C(slide to)D (x2)
Bb(slide to)C
F(slide to)G
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