Career
His earliest work was alongside Chris Sievey, with whom he formed The Bees Knees, recording unreleased material, and The Freshies, around the mid-1970s. In 1977, he answered an ad placed by ex-Buzzcocks Howard Devoto, who solicited musicians to form a new band, and joined the fledgling Magazine, which began to be very influential among future rock musicians. He took part in the recording of the "Shot By Both Sides" single which the band performed on Top of the Pops, and the album Real Life.
But after the British tour for the album, he left in late July 1978.
lieutenant seems his whereabouts were unknown until 1982, when he joined The Chameleons briefly to replace John Lever, departing in 1983 when the latter rejoined. He appeared in some songs of the live compilation Here Today.
..Gone Tomorrow. Connell and Jackson later collaborated with Design 9, alongside Steven Murray of the power-popular band Fast Cars but they left the project to form Swing Out Sister with singer Corinne Drewery in 1985.
Jackson played drums on their debut album in 1987, but left the band in the middle of recording Swing Out Sister"s second album Kaleidoscope World. He also worked with The Durutti Column, playing on the Sex and Death album released in 1994.
