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Young ideas
Previously unseen photos of The Jam show Weller and co’s impatient evolution
AS punk swept the nation in 1977 and ’78, time was moving so fast, The Jam’s regular sleeve photographer Martyn Goddard forgot he’d amassed stacks of fascinating outtakes from those now-iconic shoots at his tiny studio on Kensington Church Street. “Every day I was photographing a different band,” says Goddard. “I did Sham 69, The Cure, I did a band called The Jolt… although the shoot before The Jam was Acker Bilk!” The sessions were “done very quickly, and once the art department had pulled the picture [for the sleeve], the rest of the negatives went into my files in the loft. I’d forgotten all about them.”