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The J Five Slot: Diana Ross opens the door...

Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 9 June 1973

WHEN LAST I left you the J5 had been formed (in 1965; the other date was my mistake) and the group had played an impressive set of dates in major cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. All that was missing, it seems, was a recording contract. Joe Jackson continues the story:

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