News Of The World (song)
"News of the World" was a single by British group The Jam released on 11 March 1978. It reached #27 in the UK Singles Chart. "Aunties And Uncles (Impulsive Youths)" and "Innocent Man" appeared as its B-side. The title refers to the then extant British tabloid newspaper, News of the World.
It is not included on any of the band's studio albums and featured the band's bass player Bruce Foxton on lead vocals. It was also the only Jam single to be written by Foxton apart from Funeral Pyre which was co-written by all three Jam members: Weller/Foxton/Buckler.
The video for the single was filmed on the roof of Battersea Power Station in London.
The song is used as the theme tune for the British satirical panel game Mock the Week.
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“The young ... look into visages dull-eyed, long-toothed, wattle-necked, and chop-fallen, something they have never been and which they cannot imagine ever being.... If it occurs to a young person, looking at us, that this is the direction in which he himself travels, how can he forgive, let alone bear the sight of, us, who constantly bring him the bad news of our own faces, bitter signposts pointing to his own destination?”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)
“Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey Truth is now her painted toy....”
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