The Place is in the Song.

A protest song by the Jam, highlighting the divide between the Working class and the privileged boys attending Eton College.
Etonians are taught how to fire rifles.
Paul Weller - singer/songwriter of The Jam said ;
“I was watching the news on TV and I saw this footage of a Right To Work march going past Eton, where all the kids from the school came outside and started jeering at the marchers. I just thought what a great image it was. I didn’t think of it as particularly political.”

The era entailed the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, the gap between the ruling classes and the workers was getting wider and wider, with unemployment about to skyrocket, interest rates about to be raised and cuts to public spending in the first months of Thatchers reign
The Eton Rifles - The Jam
 
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