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Manifestor_of_Light

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4. Joe Jackson had a couple of hits earlier, before "Steppin' Out"
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 01:27 AM
Aug 2014

"Is She Really Going Out With Him?" and "It's Different for Girls".

Joe singing-No piano:




It's Different For Girls - live, no piano:



It's Different For Girls - live, just Joe on Piano. If you want to hear his great piano work,
listen to this version from 2013. He's sixty years old now.
This is what I'm talking about, relating to his piano style (I play classical mostly):



English musicians and bands tend to be better than Americans. They are steeped in culture over there and centuries of history, and I think it seeps into their pores.

"quite limited in their use of chord structure and time signatures" -- you're being generous and polite. Most of them are incompetent and think that sampling and borrowing snippets and auto-tune is composing. It's not.

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