How Joe Jackson’s “Stepping Out” Became 1982’s Most Overlooked Masterpiece

Joe Jackson Stepping Out was the best song of1982. That’s saying something because 82 was a massive year in music, it was the year of mega chart singles like Eye of the Tiger by Survivor, Physical by Olivia Newton John and I love Rock and Roll by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and big albums like Men at Work’s Business as Usual Prince 1999, Duran Duran Rio even Michael Jackson Thriller came out at the end of the year… Joe Jackson was just on a higher musical vibrations. He rocked the end of the 70s with his New Wave Hit Is She Really Going Out with Him but then after several albums he got tired of being categorized as New Wave so he wrote a song that called on the ghosts of George Gershwin and Cole Porter and thought it stalled just outside of the top 5 it had a sonic quality that could whisk you away to musical ecstasy. Up next the story of the most unsung hit of the 80s by a man who still has an air of mystery surrounding him.

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