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Funeral Pyre

Certain Songs #707: The Jam – “Funeral Pyre”

November 21, 2016 by Jim Connelly

the-jam-funeral-pyre Album: Snap!
Year: 1981

And then there was that time The Jam were on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder.

It was summer of 1981, and of course, they were neither the first nor the last New Wave (because sure why not) band to show up and have a discussing with the disheveled, chain-smoking Snyder. And while The Jam’s appearance wasn’t as notable as the infamous PIL “We’re not a band, we’re a corporation” appearance (which, if you’ve never seen, you should stop everything and watch it right now, I’ll wait), it had a moment that I’ll never ever forget.

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