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Paul Weller (vero nome John William Weller) è un altro di quei clamorosi genii musicali che la Gran Bretagna ha dato alla luce.
Cresciuto a Beatles, Who e i gruppi mod, ha formato i Jam e poi gli Style Council, mietendo sempre grandi successi. Ha poi deciso di dedicarsi alla carriera solista ed è diventato una specie di istituzione nazionale.
That’s entertainment è un brano del 1980, estratto dal quinto album dei Jam, che qui è presentato in un’esibizione dal vivo del 1991 del Paul Weller Movement, formazione messa in piedi appositamente per ritornare alle esibizioni live.

A police car and a screaming siren –
A pnuematic drill and ripped up concrete –
A baby wailing and stray dog howling –
The screech of brakes and lamplights blinking –

That’s entertainment.

That’s entertainment.

A smash of glass and the rumble of boots –
An electric train and a ripped up ‘phone booth –
Paint spattered walls and the cry of a tomcat –
Lights going out and a kick in the balls –

I say that’s entertainment.

That’s entertainment.

Days of speed and slow time Mondays –
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday –
Watching the news and not eating your tea –
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls –

I say that’s entertainment.

That’s entertainment.

Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning –
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol –
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard –
Watching the tele and thinking about your holidays –

That’s entertainment.

That’s entertainment.

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes –
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume –
A hot summers’ day and sticky black tarmac –
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were faraway –

That’s entertainment.

That’s entertainment.

Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight –
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude –
Getting a cab and travelling on buses –
Reading the grafitti about slashed seat affairs –

That’s entertainment.