Town Called Malice Town Called Malice "Town Called Malice" is a song recorded by British band the Jam from the album "The Gift". It debuted at number one in the UK Singles Chart in February 1982. The title is a play on the 1950 Nevil Shute novel "A Town Like Alice," although Paul Weller says he had not read the book at the time. It was a double A-side single release featuring "Precious" as the flip side. A 12" version was also available with a live version of "Town Called Malice" backed by an extended version of "Precious". Paul Weller has said that
The Town and the City The Town and the City The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel "On the Road" (1957). Like all of Jack Kerouac's major works, "The Town and the City" is essentially an autobiographical novel, though less directly so than most of his other works. "The Town and the City" was written in a conventional manner over a period of years, and much more novelistic license was taken with this work than after Kerouac's adoption