Biography:
Joe Jackson (born 11 August 1954 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK, as David Ian Jackson) is a British musician. Jackson is probably best known for the hit singles Is She Really Going Out With Him? (1979) and Steppin' Out (1982). Although born in Staffordshire, Jackson grew up in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
He started off learning to play the violin but soon switched to piano. From the age of 16 he played in bars, and won a scholarship to study musical composition at London's Royal Academy of Music.
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- A Slow Song
- Baby Stick Around
- Be My Number Two
- Blaze Of Glory
- Breaking Us In Two
- Different For Girls
- Far Away
- Fast Forward
- Fifty Dollar Love Affair
- Fools In Love
- Girl
- Happy Ending
- Happy Loving Couples
- Home Town
- Hometown
- If I Could See Your Face
- If It Wasnt For You
- Im The Man
- Is She Really Going Out With Him
- Its Different For Girls
- Junkie Diva
- Keep On Dreaming
- Kings Of The City
- Look Sharp
- Neon Rain
- Ode To Joy
- On Your Radio
- One More Time
- One To One
- Poor Thing
- Real Men
- Satellite
- See No Evil
- So You Say
- Steppin Out
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Sunday Papers
- The Blue Time
- The Other Me
- Wild West
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From: [email protected] (Phillip C. Saunders)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:39:34 EST
Subject: joe_jackson/home.town.crd
Joe Jackson, "Home Town" from Big World
transcribed by [email protected]
D A Bm F#m G D A
Of all the stupid things I could have thought this was the worst
D A Bm F#m G D A
I started to believe that I was born at seventeen
D A Bm F#m G D A
And all the stupid things, the letters and the broken verse
D A Bm F#m G D A
Stayed hidden at the bottom of the drawer, they'd always been
D A Bm F#m G D A
And now I plough through files of bills receipts and credit cards
D A Bm F#m G A
and tickets and the daily news and sometimes I just wanna go back to my
Chorus
D F#m G A
Home Town, though I know it'll never be the same
D F#m G
Back to my home town, 'cause it's been so long,
A F#m (???)
and I'm wondering if it's still there.
We think we're pretty smart, us city slickers get around
And when the goping's rough we kill the pain and relocate
We're never married, never faithful not to any town
But we never leave the past behind it just accumulates
So sometimes when the music stops I seem to hear a distant sound
Of waves and seagulls, football crowds and churchbells
Chorus
Chorus
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
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From: [email protected] (Phillip C. Saunders)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:39:34 EST
Subject: joe_jackson/home.town.crd
Joe Jackson, "Home Town" from Big World
transcribed by [email protected]
D A Bm F#m G D A
Of all the stupid things I could have thought this was the worst
D A Bm F#m G D A
I started to believe that I was born at seventeen
D A Bm F#m G D A
And all the stupid things, the letters and the broken verse
D A Bm F#m G D A
Stayed hidden at the bottom of the drawer, they'd always been
D A Bm F#m G D A
And now I plough through files of bills receipts and credit cards
D A Bm F#m G A
and tickets and the daily news and sometimes I just wanna go back to my
Chorus
D F#m G A
Home Town, though I know it'll never be the same
D F#m G
Back to my home town, 'cause it's been so long,
A F#m (???)
and I'm wondering if it's still there.
We think we're pretty smart, us city slickers get around
And when the goping's rough we kill the pain and relocate
We're never married, never faithful not to any town
But we never leave the past behind it just accumulates
So sometimes when the music stops I seem to hear a distant sound
Of waves and seagulls, football crowds and churchbells
Chorus
Chorus
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