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The Jam 1982 Special Edition

The standard hardback edition is available here.

This special edition of The Jam 1982 by Rick Buckler contains the following exclusive items: 

Signed Hardback book with a numbered slipcase – limited to 1,000 copies – and containing an exclusive print.  

This richly illustrated oral history account of The Jam’s rollercoaster final year, led principally by the voice of Jam drummer Rick Buckler, contains a number of previously unseen images and takes in everything from the recording and release of final studio album The Gift and the rigours of the road to the announcement of the split, the final tours, The Tube and more.

In addition to Buckler’s memories of this final year, The Jam 1982 also brings together testimonies from Gary Crowley, producer Peter Wilson, A&R manager Dennis Munday, photographer Neil ‘Twink’ Tinning, Eddie Piller, Paolo Hewitt, Mat Osman, Belle Stars singer Jennie Matthias (‘The Bitterest Pill’), touring musicians Jamie Telford and Steve Nichol and others, to tell the tale of a single, fateful year: the year The Jam, for better or worse, went out at the very top of their game.

The Jam 1982 – Signed by Rick Buckler

Each copy is signed by Rick Buckler. Out now!

By Rick Buckler and Zoë Howe

This richly illustrated oral history account of The Jam’s rollercoaster final year, led principally by the voice of Jam drummer Rick Buckler, contains a number of previously unseen images and takes in everything from the recording and release of final studio album The Gift and the rigours of the road to the announcement of the split, the final tours, The Tube and more.

In addition to Buckler’s memories of this final year, The Jam 1982 also brings together testimonies from Gary Crowley, producer Peter Wilson, A&R manager Dennis Munday, photographer Neil ‘Twink’ Tinning, Eddie Piller, Paolo Hewitt, Mat Osman, Belle Stars singer Jennie Matthias (‘The Bitterest Pill’), touring musicians Jamie Telford and Steve Nichol and others, to tell the tale of a single, fateful year: the year The Jam, for better or worse, went out at the very top of their game.

That’s Entertainment: My Life in the Jam

That’s Entertainment: My Life in the Jam – Small Paperback

A small paperback edition of Rick Buckler’s memoir That’s Entertainment.

The Jam, The Day I was There

With a foreword written by Jam drummer Rick Buckler, this book tells the story of The Jam in the words of over 300 fans. With memories from the earliest shows at clubs and pubs around Woking and London, UK and North American tours through to their last ever gig in Brighton, England on 11th December 1982. Told by the perspective of fans, promoters, studio engineers, photographers and support acts the book includes personal photographs, memorabilia, anecdotes and stories that have never been published before. Formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, the band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. Between 1977 and 1982, there were five albums and 17 singles, including four number ones, and a journey, which encompassed no end of influences, styles, and textures.

Each copy comes signed by Rick Buckler

The Start to ’77

This Day in Music’s Guide to the Jam