Jermaine Jackson Says Jackson 5 Reuniting For Tour, Album

Are the Jackson 5 finally reuniting? According to Jermaine Jackson, 2009 is the year the family finally gets together again. "This has been a long time coming for the Jackson family to get back together," Jermaine told the Australian press. "We're in the studio, we're planning on being out there next year." Of course, this isn't the first time a non-Michael Jackson has touted a reunion that never happened. Even last month, the entire Jackson clan couldn't arrange to all be on hand to accept their BMI lifetime achievement award, as Michael missed the ceremony. Asked where the most famous Jackson could be, Marlon responded "I don't know. I think he's in Egypt riding a camel or something." If by some miracle the Jacksons do reunite for a new album, it would be the family's first complete album together since 1984's Victory.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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