“But Costello hadn’t begun to make a dent in
the U.S., and Jags frontman Watkinson slyly told the Record Mirror in 1979,
“We’ve got to make it over there (the U.S.) before Costello does. Then
everybody will say he’s copying us!” Police guitarist Andy Summers was
announced as the Jags’ audio producer in that same issue of the Record Mirror,
but he wasn’t in the studio to direct the band’s initial sessions. They
recorded at Olympic studios in London with producers John Astley and Phil
Chapman. Those initial sessions would become the band’s debut release: a
four-song 12-inch vinyl EP in July 1979 containing “Back Of My Hand,” “Single
Vision” (both later on the debut album in different versions) and two tracks
only available on the EP, “Double Vision” and “What Can I Do.”
- det engelske powerpop-band The Jags forsvandt lige så hurtigt som de blev berømte med 1979-singlen, ’Back Of My Hand’. Hvad gik der galt? I denne artikel fra Magnet Magazine får man måske svaret
