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unusual facts about Setting Sons


Benjamin Clemens

His sculpture 'The St John's Ambulance Bearers' is used on the album cover of The Jam's 1979 album Setting Sons, and is held in the Imperial War Museum permanent collection in London.


Bracklesham Bay

Bracklesham Bay is mentioned in the track 'Saturdays Kids' (Paul Weller) on the 1979 album by The Jam, 'Setting Sons'; "Save up their money for a holiday/ To Selsey Bill, or Bracklesham Bay".

Dreams of Children

The song opens and is intermittently accentuated with a backmasked sample of the band's 1979 song "Thick as Thieves".


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