“Ghosts”, The Jam, Rick Buckler Dies at 69, RIP

This way: Ghosts

The Jam were an English rock band formed in 1972 in Woking, Surrey. They released 18 consecutive top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" remain the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. When the group disbanded in 1982, their first 15 singles were re-released and all placed within the top 100. 

Richard Paul Buckler (6 December 1955 – 17 February 2025) was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band the Jam. Richard Paul Buckler was born on 6 December 1955 in the town of Woking in the county of Surrey, England. He received his education at Sheerwater Secondary School, in Woking. While there in the early 1970s, he joined other pupils in a newly formed band named the Jam.

Buckler was the drummer for the Jam from its formation in the early 1970s through to its break-up in the early 1980s, during which time it became a critically acclaimed and commercially successful rock band with an original sound as part of the mod revival movement in England's music and fashion scenes of the period. Although the band's creative output came to be attributed primarily to its lead vocalist and guitarist Paul Weller, its rhythm section of Buckler and Bruce Foxton (bass guitar) were integral to its sound, and in retrospect Buckler felt that Weller had been given undue credit for the band's song catalogue to the detriment of its other members' contributions.

 

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