Wake Up the Nation

Wake Up the Nation
Studio album by Paul Weller
Released	19 April 2010 (2010-04-19)
Recorded	2009
Studio	Black Barn Studios, Woking, Surrey
Genre	Rock, Indie rock
Label	Island (UK, EU) Yep Roc (USA)
Producer	Simon Dine
Paul Weller chronology
Paul Weller – Deluxe Edition (2009) Wake Up the Nation (2010) Sonik Kicks (2012)

Wake Up the Nation is the tenth studio album from Paul Weller and was released on 19 April 2010. It was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize. The albums was dedicated to "absent friends – John Weller, Pat Foxton and Robert Kirby".

It is the first of Weller's albums since 1982 to feature contributions from Bruce Foxton, formerly of The Jam. Weller told Mojo magazine: "We'd both lost loved ones and without getting too spiritual that was the spur of it. I spoke to him this time last year when his wife Pat was ill and that broke the ice, then I invited him down to Black Barn (studio). There was no big plan, it was easy, a laugh, and nice to see him and work together again. We just slipped back into it."^[1]