Tom Dunne: Death of Rick Buckler a reminder of what a brilliant band The Jam were
The Jam in 1977: Rick Buckler, Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton. (Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage)
Rick Buckler’s passing is a bitter blow to music fans of a certain age. There were still many who thought that one day The Jam would perform again. That they could dust down their Parka jackets, jump on their Lambrettas and once again declare that ‘This is the Modern World’.
In a week when even Paul Simon announced that he is “unretiring” after a seven-year absence, Buckler’s death after a short illness, means that the Jam will be one of those rarest of things: a band were “never again” really meant “never again”.
