When You're Young (The Jam song)
| "When You're Young" | ||||
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| Single by The Jam | ||||
| B-side | "Smithers-Jones" | |||
| Released | 17 August 1979 | |||
| Genre | Mod revival, power pop | |||
| Label | Polydor (UK) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Paul Weller | |||
| Producer(s) | Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and the Jam | |||
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| Back of the single cover | ||||
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| "When You're Young" on YouTube | ||||
"When You're Young" was the eighth single released by the Jam. The single was released on 17 August 1979, and charted at number 17 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 September. The B-Side of the single, "Smithers-Jones", is a guitar-based recording of this song, as opposed to the all-strings arrangement composed at the suggestion of the band's drummer, Rick Buckler, and included on the reissue of their fourth album, Setting Sons.