Joe Jackson IS citizen sane
Monday, January 28, 2008 The Free Society website will go live next Monday, February 4. This morning, one of the first articles to be commissioned for the site arrived in my inbox. The author, Joe Jackson, is an old friend of Forest and I am thrilled that he is publicly supporting the new project. The article begins:
As I write this, I'm busy promoting my new album Rain; sitting in hotel rooms or record company offices all day doing interviews and answering the same questions over and over again. It can be interesting, though, when it forces me to examine my own motivations in ways I never did while I was actually writing the songs. It's as though the journalists hold up a mirror, and what I see in that mirror can be surprising.
For one thing, you're supposed to be an 'angry young man' at 20 and 'mellow' at 50, but I'm more angry and rebellious than ever. Don't get me wrong; I don't walk around with a black cloud over my head. I enjoy my life. But age and experience have provided me with more and more things to be angry about.
You'll have to wait until next week to read the full article, but I can reveal that it was prompted by 'Citizen Sane', a song on the new album which is released tomorrow. Recorded in Berlin, where he now lives, Rain features ten new songs and is reviewed HERE.
Reader Comments (1)
Joe. I have never felt rebellious until now and I am 67yo.