“If the Beatles re-formed and started playing ’60s-type music again, they’d get slagged off, too.”

“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