When You're Young

"When You're Young"
Single by The Jam
B-side Smithers-Jones
Released 25 August 1979
Format 7" vinyl
Genre Mod Revival
Label Polydor (UK)
Writer(s) Paul Weller
Producer Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and The Jam
The Jam singles chronology
"Strange Town"
(1979)
"When You're Young"
(1979)
"The Eton Rifles"
(1979)

"When You're Young" was released as a one-off single by The Jam. Released on 25 August 1979, it charted at number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. The B-side, "Smithers-Jones", is widely considered to be Jam bassist Bruce Foxton's finest song-writing moment and also appears - with an orchestral arrangement - on the band's 1979 album Setting Sons. The promo video for when you're young was filmed at Queens park Kilburn Kilburn high road and Kilburn square north london