Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001. He is probably best known for the 1979 hit song and first single "Is She Really Going Out with Him?", which still gets extensive FM radio airplay; for his 1982 hit, "Steppin' Out"; and for his 1984 success with "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)". He was popular for his pop/rock and new wave music early on before moving to more eclectic, though less commercially successful, pop/jazz/classical hybrids.
In this very rare appearance of Joe in AVO Session, Basel, Switzerland. He played mostly his old popular songs and the audience loved it. Last time he made an album was still 2001 entitled "Stranger than You" Surprisingly, he is still popular in Europe. Lately, this very talented jazz vocalist and pianist has become mellow in his musical career. More often, artist like Joe become victims of their popularity. Fame can conquer anybody and artists easily ends up bankrupt for no reason at all.
Gaining back popularity is a hard thing to do specially when the artist got lost of his tracks. Joe discovered something about this concert and found out that playing his popular song like"Is She Really Going Out with Him?", "Can you be my no. 2" were still familiar to these 2011 audience here in AVO Session concert. It has been 32 years ago? People were all chanting to the melody and they still loves it!
Gaining back popularity is a hard thing to do specially when the artist got lost of his tracks. Joe discovered something about this concert and found out that playing his popular song like"Is She Really Going Out with Him?", "Can you be my no. 2" were still familiar to these 2011 audience here in AVO Session concert. It has been 32 years ago? People were all chanting to the melody and they still loves it!
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