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Joe Jackson: Don't Look Back in Anger

David Burke, Classic Pop, February 2019

JOE JACKSON doesn't strike you as someone who's all that bothered about anniversaries, preferring to remain in the present rather than return to the past. But 40 years after his debut album, Look Sharp, perceptively described by eminent critic Greil Marcus as "clean, fresh and just a bit mean", he's decided to indulge himself in a spot of nostalgia - on his own terms, of course.

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