Skidding Jackson Five Are The Osmonds Reformed
“JACKSON FIVE HITS THE SKIDS,” announces the Daily Star.
The paper leads with picture of the Jacksons in full 70s get up, doing that running-on-the-spot dance so beloved by dads at weddings and teenage girls now in their 40s.
That’s if it is really them and not one of the many Jackson tribute bands that now look more like the authentic Jacksons than the authentic Jacksons now do.
Going down the list the Star tells us that Marlon Jackson is filling shelves in a supermarket in San Diego, presumable not with his latest chart-topping CD.
Randy Jackson is “doing a variety of odds jobs”.
Jackie Jackson (so good they named him twice) lives at home with his parents.
Jermaine Jackson has not worked since his showing on Celebrity Big Brother, which puts him in the same bracket as his co-star Jo O’Meara. He owes, we are told, £2.5million to the taxman.
Tito Jackson earns as little as £250 a gig playing in a blues band. And Michael Jackson is now a dead ringer for Neil Diamond and hopes to carve out a career as Real Diamond, a lookalike.
Indeed, all the Jackson Five, of whom the Star spots six, should make a stab at reforming and performing as a Jackson Five tribute band. With suitable masks, lighting and an audience encourage to squint their greater pass for the popular bat combo of yore, or the Osmonds…
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March 26th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Over the weekend I went to see Willy ‘Stone Deaf’ jackson at the Hen and Chickens in Oldbury. Many of you will remember when this ex member of the Jackson 5 returned to his roots as a great blues guitarist who could fill a good sized arena never mind a midlands pub.
He did a one and half hour set that ran the full length of his career. Sarting with ‘Say what?’ from the 60’s to the endearing ‘Speak up Child’ dedicated to his first granddaughter.
His more traditional stuff like ‘I beg your pardon’ and ‘Is that the doorbell?’ is blended in with the newer stuff from a non accoustic age. The driving rhythms of ‘Is that amp on’ blending well with the more plaintive ‘I cain’t hear what you say’
Accompanied as ever by his faithful drummer Charlie ‘Forearms’ Foster, bassist ‘Welders Thumbs’ Thompson and harpman Leroy ‘Foghorn’ Tensmith, ‘Stone Deaf’ produced an evening which transcended pure Delta blues and provided entertainment for the 50 or so gathered in the pub and anyone else in a five mile radius.
Classic Blues and well worth trying to catch him later in the tour
March 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Where? There - there goes Michael with his red dress on…
March 26th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Which one of ‘em is Joe?
He of ‘different for girls’ fame….
And I don’t see Glenda in there anywhere.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am
That’s Carol Jackson, formerly of the EastEnders service wash
March 26th, 2008 at 9:01 am
second one in looks a dead ringer for Donny (Osmond) Jackson