Trivia
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Here's some JJ trivia for you...
Joe Jackson has a brief credited on-screen appearance in the film 
The Greatest Game Ever Played as a piano player in an East London pub.
The film, which premiered in the US on 30 September 2005, tells the true story of Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old amateur golf player from a working class family, who shocked the golf world when at the 1913 U.S. Open he battled his idol, the defending British champion Harry Vardon.
Joe Jackson was originally commissioned to write the music for this film, but at some stage the studio
decided to give the job to Brian Tyler.
The song "Ella, elle l'a" – which was a hit for the French singer France Gall in 1987 – is a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, but the song's official video also contains photos of numerous other musicians and even of Muhammad Ali. And at 2:19 there are a number of still photos of Joe.
Here is a link to the video "Ella, elle l'a" on YouTube
The song 'Battleground' on the album Beat Crazy is dedicated
to Linton Kwesi Johnson.
The album Blaze Of Glory has this note by Joe: "dedicated to my generation".
A frequently asked question is: How tall is Joe?
In a questionnaire, Joe gave his height as 6 ft. 4 in. (= 1.93 m).
Source: UK teen magazine 'Blue Jeans', issue 207 (3 Jan. 1981)
Not to be confused... other Joe Jackson's
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the legendary American baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (1888-1951) |
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Joe Jackson, one of Ireland's top music journalists |
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Joe Jackson (1928-2018), the father of Michael Jackson and the rest of the Jackson family |
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Joe Jackson, a Pulitzer-Prize-nominated American author |
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Joe Jackson, an American jazz trombonist |
Joe Jackson, an actor who played minor roles in "The Alamo" (1960) and "The Longest Yard" (1974) IMDB entry |
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This cover sleeve has the album title printed in 27 different languages. Ever wondered what these languages are?
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1. French 2. Persian 3. Chinese, Japanese 4. Greek 5. Dutch 6. Korean 7. Thai 8. Russian 9. Gaelic |
10. Armenian 11. Hindi 12. English 13. Hebrew 14. Indonesian 15. Arabic 16. Polish 17. Vietnamese 18. Swedish |
19. Swiss German 20. Turkish 21. Spanish, Portuguese 22. Swahili 23. Italian 24. Danish 25. Finnish 26. Welsh 27. Hungarian |
Talking of album sleeves... When Body And Soul
was released, a lot of jazz fans found the cover art strangely familiar and dug
out an album by Sonny Rollins, issued on the Blue Note label in 1957, Sonny Rollins, Volume 2,
which depicted the great sax player with his instrument and a cigarette in his hand.
The photo of Joe on the Body And Soul cover almostly exactly replicated that picture
so it was clear that it was meant as a tribute to that classic jazz album cover.
When a book came out in 1991, "The Cover Art of Blue Note Records" (edited by Graham Marsh, Glyn Callingham and Felix Cromey, published by Collins and Brown, London), it reproduced the two covers on two facing pages (117 and 118) with the following captions:
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| All good things which exist are the fruits of originality... | ...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. |