| "Walls Come Tumbling Down!" | ||||
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| Single by The Style Council | ||||
| from the album Our Favourite Shop | ||||
| Released | 1985 | |||
| Genre | Northern soul[1] | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Paul Weller | |||
| The Style Council singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Walls Come Tumbling Down!" on YouTube | ||||
"Walls Come Tumbling Down!" is a song by English band The Style Council which was their ninth single to be released. It was written by lead vocalist Paul Weller, and released in 1985. It is the first single from the band's second studio album, Our Favourite Shop (1985). Our Favourite Shop was renamed Internationalists for the U.S. market.
The song "Blood Sports", which appeared on the single, is about anti-hunting and anti-animal blood sports. Its writing royalties went to the Bristol Defence Fund for two hunt saboteurs jailed for anti-blood sports activities, including attempted murder of a teenage rider and animal cruelty.[3]
The music video was filmed in Warsaw, Poland.
- ^ Bradley, Larry (November 4, 2014). "The 1980s: The Style Council - "Walls Come Tumbling Down". The Alternative Jukebox. Cassell. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-84403-789-6.
- ^ a b Gibbs, Ryan (November 15, 2022). "An introduction to Sophisti-pop". In Between Drafts. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
- ^ "Internationalists 1985". Wellerworld.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 October 2004. Retrieved 2018-09-08.