Paul Weller Shares His 'Dreams' With Noel Gallagher

Paul Weller -- the former frontman for '70s/'80s sensations the Jam -- will release his ninth studio album, '22 Dreams' on June 24. The effort will feature an array of Britpop guests including Oasis' Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer, and Blur co-founder Graham Coxon, among others.

Counting 21 tracks, '22 Dreams' will be preceded in the by a Double A-sided single, 'Echoes Round the Sun'/'Have You Made Up Your Mind' on May 26. 'Echoes' is the first-ever songwriting collaboration between Gallagher and his boyhood hero Weller. The Modfather and Gallagher previously recorded together in 1995 as part of the supergroup, the Smoking Mojo Filters, which also included Craddock and Paul McCartney performing the Beatles' 'Come Together' on the Warchild Charity Album 'Help'.

Weller has only one North American date confirmed thus far. He will perform alongside the likes of Gallagher's Oasis, Stereophonics and the Weakerthans on September 7 in Toronto's Island Park, on the second day of the Virgin Music Festival.

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