It sounds like the start of a joke. ‘So... Paul Weller was in a van driving to a gig one day with a lion in the passenger seat’. But no, it is true: according to a new interview in this month’s Uncut magazine, the young Weller was attacked by a lion when he was on way to an early Jam show.
Weller was discussing his upcoming covers album Find El Dorado when conversation drifted back to the early days of his first band when his dad’s friend Ronnie would drive the group to gigs in his Transit van. Ronnie, it seems, was a bit of a character, who happened to own... a lion.
