When You're Young (The Jam song)

"When You're Young"
Single by The Jam
B-side"Smithers-Jones"
Released17 August 1979
GenreMod revival, power pop
LabelPolydor (UK)
Songwriter(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
Music video
"When You're Young" on YouTube

"When You're Young" was the eighth single released by the Jam. The single was released on 17 August 1979, and charted at number 17 in the UK Singles Chart[1] on 8 September.[2] The B-Side of the single, "Smithers-Jones", is a guitar-based recording of this song, as opposed to the all-strings arrangement composed at the suggestion of the band's drummer, Rick Buckler, and included on the reissue of their fourth album, Setting Sons.[3]

  1. ^ David Roberts (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 277. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ "when you're young | full Official Chart History". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  3. ^ Boy about Town ISBN 978-0-099-55855-2 p. 253