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THE BEAT GOES ON

BOSTON — You’re Michael Gregory Jackson from Northampton, Mass., and you want to be a pop star. What do you do? Well, first you drop the Jackson from your name so that you’re no longer confused with the pop institution of the same surname (and to whose voice yours bears some slight, sweet resemblance).

April 1, 1984
J. Kordosh

THE BEAT GOES ON

MICHAEL GREGORY ON THE ROCKS

BOSTON — You’re Michael Gregory Jackson from Northampton, Mass. , and you want to be a pop star. What do you do?

Well, first you drop the Jackson from your name so that you’re no longer confused with the pop institution of the same surname (and to whose voice yours bears some slight, sweet resemblance).

Secondly, you record an album called Situation X with Nile Rodgers (Bowie, Debbie Harry, Chic) producing, using musicians from Bowie’s Let’s Dance sessions and a few other hot shots from Chic.

And-thirdly, by doing interviews like this one, you go about trying to convince the world that the avant-garde jazz guitarist that

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