https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSppm8lS2rc
Let's go from Joe Cocker to Joe Jackson, shall we? I know I've been neglectful this year of all the great music that occurred 35 years ago in 1979, so here's my early Christmas present to all my faithful readers - a link to a clip taken from the Christmas episode of American Bandstand that aired on Dec. 22, 1979 (I missed the anniversary by 1 day because Cocker's death took precedence). The musical guest is Joe Jackson, performing two of his best songs: "It's Different For Girls" and "I'm the Man." "It's Different" is the only charter of the two, and it only made #101 while "I'm the Man" is a humorous look at the marketing of fads sung through the voice of a huckster. Much New Wave skinny-tie fashion and pogoing ensue and the whole thing threatens to erupt into anarchy by the end as Jackson starts trashing everything (watch at 6:00 as he runs up ths stairs to swipe what appears to be a Christmas ornament and flips it off his back) and the youth dance wildly in one of the most spirited responses I've ever seen in a Bandstand clip. Here it is - Happy Holidays!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSppm8lS2rc
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