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Paul Weller has revealed that The Jam were turned down for a spot on ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks.
Before the mod group had their first top 40 hit with 'In The City', they unsuccessfully auditioned for the Hughie Green-fronted show in the '70s.
Weller explained to Q: "Our guitarist's girlfriend at the time, she wrote off to get us an audition for Opportunity Knocks. She was going 'Oh, it'll be great, you can go and audition and get on telly.' So she wrote off and they asked us to audition. I thought, 'f*** off'. But luckily they turned us down.
"We played them a few of our own tunes. I can barely remember doing it, but we were so s***. And thank God. I don't want to think what would have happened if we'd ended up getting on."
