The 1986 docudrama Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent telling the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.
Jackson recorded his version first and The Jacksons' management team picked up the song at Midem, the music industry trade fair in Cannes, where it was offered to them by Mick Jackson's publisher without Jackson's knowledge. Due to a delay at the pressing plant which was producing Mick Jackson's single, in the UK the two versions were released within weeks of each other.
The press at the time enjoyed the similarity in the names and release coincidence, calling the situation 'The Battle of the Boogie' as the two records jockeyed for chart positions. Radio stations got on the battle bandwagon. BBC Radio One only played The Jacksons' version, Capital Radio only played Mick’s single. The music press was equally split. Melody Maker did not review Mick Jackson’s version, but praised the Jacksons and wrongly referred to their single as a "self-penned song" (16 September 1978), whereas NME hailed Mick Jackson as the winner of the battle, calling his version "far superior" (7 October 1978).
Jackson worked in local theatre, studied theatre arts at Dartington College of Arts, and played in a rock band called The Screaming Abdabs. In 1990, he enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, and began working on The Underground Man. He has been a full-time writer since 1995.
Jackson's other works are the novels Five Boys (2002) and The Widow's Tale (2010), and the short story collections Ten Sorry Tales (2006) and The Bears of England (2009). Under the pseudonymKirkham Jackson, he wrote the screenplay for the 2004 television film Roman Road. He lives in Brighton.
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Costner, who also served as a producer on the movie, described casting the legendary singer in the film’s lead role despite initial objections from the film’s director, MickJackson.
Costner, who also served as a producer on the film, said he began to work closely with Houston on her performance after he sensed director MickJackson was “afraid” of her ... “I had promised Whitney that she’d be good in (the film).
He mentioned that while filming the director, MickJackson had some discomfort with Houston and Costner insisted on her casting for the scenes ... He saw that the director had certain ROs regarding Houston and it became his duty to come up for her.
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... and director MickJackson made a smaller but more terrifying film that follows a young woman from a few months before a massive nuclear exchange (when she learns she is pregnant) to 13 years after.
