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The Eton Rifles, "The Eton Rifles"Single?by The Jamfrom the album Setting SonsB-sideSee-SawReleased3 November 1979Format7" vinylGenreMod revival,
Punk rockLabelPolydor (UK)Writer(s)Paul WellerProducerVic Coppersmith-Heaven and The JamThe Jam singles chronologyWhen You're Young(1979)The Eton Rifles(1979)Going Underground(1980)"The Eton Rifles" was the only single to be released from the album Setting Sons by The Jam. Recorded at Townhouse studios and released on
3
November 1979,, Eton being a famous English public school in Berkshire regarded as the
epitome
of Britain's privileged
'elite'. The song itself recounts the difficulties faced
by the
unemployed and lower paid working class in protesting against a system loaded
against them.The song recounts a street battle Paul Weller had read about in
the newspapers concerning elements of a Right To Work march going through Slough
in 1978 breaking off to attack pupils
from Eton College who had been jeering the lunchtime
marchers (hence Hello, Hooray, an extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles), rashly
thinking that a bunch of 'posh schoolboys' would be an easy target: only for the outnumbered but far
fitter college pupils to give them a beating. As
the
lyric put
it: Thought you were smart when you took them on, but you didn't take a peek in their artillery room. All that
rugby puts hairs on
your chest...The
song's lyrics, in common with many Jam tracks, contain colloquial references to life in Britain, including:"Sup up your beer and collect
your fags, There's a
row going on down near Slough"Literally,
the first
part of the line means "drink up your beer and collect your cigarettes", though in this case
it is likely
a double entendre referring both to a group
of friends hurriedly leaving a pub, and to the British boarding school practice of fagging; a hierarchical authority structure in which
younger students
acted as personal servants to those in higher forms.With
regard to the latter part, Slough is a town near to
Eton. The two districts have a history of class conflict, with Slough in particular
as a result of being used for various sociological experiments by urban planners and politicians throughout the 1960s through to the 1990s (a
common target
in Paul Weller's lyrics in The Jam)."What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?" is a reference
to
school uniform and badges, particularly the influence of
the
"old school tie". Notes^ Webb, Robert ROCK & POP: STORY OF THE SONG `THE ETON
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