When You're Young (The Jam song)

For the 3 Doors Down song, see When You're Young (3 Doors Down song).
"When You're Young"
Single by The Jam
B-side Smithers-Jones
Released 17 August 1979
Format 7" vinyl
Genre Mod revival
Label Polydor (UK)
Writer(s) Paul Weller
Producer(s) Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and The Jam
The Jam singles chronology
"Strange Town"
(1979)		 "When You're Young"
(1979)		 "The Eton Rifles"
(1979)
Back of the single cover

"When You're Young" was released as a one-off single by The Jam. Released on 17 August 1979, it charted at number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.[1] The B-side, "Smithers-Jones", is widely considered to be Jam bassist Bruce Foxton's finest song-writing moment and also appears – with an orchestral arrangement – on the band's 1979 album Setting Sons.

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 277. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.


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