Coming up next, a song by Joe Jackson called Steppin' Out. It is so haunting, fascinating, and unique, that it rose above the regular rock and pop fair of one of the greatest years in music… I mean this song was unlike anything on radio or MTV at the time then and now. This song sounds out of place in any decade and that’s a great thing... Joe was absolutely on a higher musical vibration at his peak. Joe Jackson rocked the end of the 70s with his new wave hit Is She Really Going Out with Him, but then after several albums, Joe got tired of being categorized in that genre. So he wrote Steppin' Out, a song that called on the ghosts of George Gershwin and Cole Porter with a modern flair, and a sonic quality that whisks you away to musical ecstasy... from an artist who in these days of social media instant celebrity still has an air of mystery about him… Today’s song may be the most overlooked masterpiece of the 80s and that’s saying something. Up next the story of the most unsung hit.

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