The Jam - Funeral Pyre

"Funeral Pyre" is The Jam's thirteenth single released on 29 May 1981, it reached No. 4 in the UK singles chart. "Funeral Pyre" is the only single co-written by the band, and the song began as a studio jam between drummer Rick Buckler and bassist Bruce Foxton, with Paul Weller's contribution coming later. The song does not appear on any of the band's studio albums. The song is a cautionary tale to young people and warns of succumbing to the rhetoric of right wing groups and fascism. The official video includes two snippets of contemporary film of the book burnings that took place in nazi Germany in the 1930's. Weller telling us to take care not to follow that path because; If you get too burnt, You can't come back home. In the 1930's Industrialists and Finance Capitalists backed fascism to halt the spread of communism after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918 brought an end to the First Imperialist World War. In Britain Oswald Moseley formed the British Union of Fascists and aspired to emulate Mussolini and Hitler. However his ambitions were thwarted by workers mobilizing against him speaking in the cities of Hull, Liverpool, Leeds and he was finally routed in the battle of Cable Street in London's East End. The Battle of Corporation Fields in Hull 90 years on. Gary Hammond and Mike Whale, Hull and District Trades Council. https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/art...