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{{Short description|1979 single by Joe Jackson}}
{{about||the TV episode|It's Different for Girls (Friday Night Lights)}}
{{distinguish|Different for Girls (disambiguation){{!}}Different for Girls}}
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| B-side = {{ubl|"Friday" (UK)|"[[Come On (Chuck Berry song)|Come On]]" (US)}}
| B-side = {{ubl|"Friday" (UK)|"[[Come On (Chuck Berry song)|Come On]]" (US)}}
| released = 30 Nov 1979 (UK)
| released = 30 Nov 1979 (UK)
| format = 7" 45-RPM single
| recorded = March 1979<br>TW Studios, Fulham, London
| recorded = March 1979<br>TW Studios, Fulham, London
| studio =
| studio =
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| writer = [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]]
| writer = [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]]
| producer = [[David Kershenbaum]]
| producer = [[David Kershenbaum]]
| prev_title = [[I'm the Man (song)|I'm the Man]]
| prev_title = [[I'm the Man (Joe Jackson song)|I'm the Man]]
| prev_year = 1979
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = [[Kinda Kute]]
| next_title = [[Kinda Kute]]
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"'''It’s Different for Girls'''" is a song by [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] appearing on his 1979 album, ''[[I'm the Man (Joe Jackson album)|I'm the Man]]''. The song has since become one of his most successful singles, notably being the highest charting Joe Jackson single in the UK. Covers have been recorded and released by several different artists.
"'''It’s Different for Girls'''" is a song by [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] appearing on his 1979 album, ''[[I'm the Man (Joe Jackson album)|I'm the Man]]''. The song has since become one of his most successful singles, notably being the highest charting Joe Jackson single in the UK. Covers have been recorded and released by several artists.

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In 2007, ''[[Freaky Trigger]]'' ranked the song at number 52 in its list of "The Top 100 Songs of All Time".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freakytrigger.co.uk/tag/top-100-songs-of-all-time/page/6/ |title=top 100 songs of all time |publisher=FreakyTrigger |accessdate=2016-10-15}}</ref> ''Glide Magazine'' ranked it as Jackson's 5th best song.<ref name="glide">{{cite web |last1=Handler |first1=Shane |title=Volume 26: Joe Jackson |url=https://glidemagazine.com/14004/volume-26-joe-jackson/ |publisher=Glide Magazine |accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==
"It's Different for Girls" contained lyrics that feature Jackson "deliberately turn[ing] clichés on their head" in that, while originally sounding as if the song would suggest that the male protagonist was looking for sex and his female partner was looking for love, the opposite is revealed to be the case.<ref name="people">{{cite web |last1=Runtagh |first1=Jordan |title=Joe Jackson on His New Album and 40 Years of Following His Muse: 'I Have a Horror of Being Trendy' |url=https://people.com/music/joe-jackson-fool-album-interview-40th-anniversary-tour/ |publisher=People |accessdate=9 November 2019}}</ref> Jackson later said on the song's lyrics:
"It's Different for Girls" contained lyrics that feature Jackson "deliberately turn[ing] clichés on their head" in that, while originally sounding as if the song would suggest that the male protagonist was looking for sex and his female partner was looking for love, the opposite is revealed to be the case.<ref name="people">{{cite web |last1=Runtagh |first1=Jordan |title=Joe Jackson on His New Album and 40 Years of Following His Muse: 'I Have a Horror of Being Trendy' |url=https://people.com/music/joe-jackson-fool-album-interview-40th-anniversary-tour/ |publisher=People |access-date=9 November 2019}}</ref> Jackson later said on the song's lyrics:


{{quote|It was something that I heard somewhere that struck me as a cliché. The sort of thing that someone might say. And again, I thought, What could that be about? And that maybe the idea was to turn it on its head and have a conversation between a man and a woman and what you'd expect to be the typical roles are reversed. So that was the idea of that.|Joe Jackson, ''Songfacts'', 2012<ref name=SongfactsInterview>{{cite web|last1=MacIntosh|first1=Dan|title=Joe Jackson interview|url=http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/joe_jackson/|website=songfacts.com}}</ref>}}
{{quote|It was something that I heard somewhere that struck me as a cliché. The sort of thing that someone might say. And again, I thought, What could that be about? And that maybe the idea was to turn it on its head and have a conversation between a man and a woman and what you'd expect to be the typical roles are reversed. So that was the idea of that.|Joe Jackson, ''Songfacts'', 2012<ref name=SongfactsInterview>{{cite web|last1=MacIntosh|first1=Dan|title=Joe Jackson interview|url=http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/joe_jackson/|website=songfacts.com}}</ref>}}
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===Other appearances===
===Other appearances===
Apart from appearing as a single and on the album ''I'm the Man'', "It's Different for Girls" has also appeared on other Joe Jackson albums. A live version appeared on ''[[Live 1980/86]]'' in 1987, having been recorded on Jackson's ''Big World'' tour in 1986. A different live version appeared on the 2000 album ''[[Summer in the City: Live in New York]]''. During the [[Laughter and Lust]] tour (1991), it was performed as a duet with [[Mindy Jostyn]].<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Laughter & Lust Live |others=Joe Jackson |year=1992 |type=VHS |id=9031 777243-3 |location=US }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0812/12121.html|title=Joe Jackson: It's Still Mock 'n' Roll|date=12 August 1991|website=Christian Science Monitor|accessdate=18 October 2020}}</ref> A new studio recording of the song, as a duet with Joy Askew, was included on the 12" vinyl and CD formats of Jackson's 1991 single "[[Stranger than Fiction (Joe Jackson song)|Stranger than Fiction]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NjOldjR5J4C&q=Joy+Askew |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |isbn=9780787610371|accessdate=18 October 2020|last1=Graff|first1=Gary}}</ref>
Apart from appearing as a single and on the album ''I'm the Man'', "It's Different for Girls" has also appeared on other Joe Jackson albums. A live version appeared on ''[[Live 1980/86]]'' in 1987, having been recorded on Jackson's ''Big World'' tour in 1986. A different live version appeared on the 2000 album ''[[Summer in the City: Live in New York]]''.

A new studio recording of the song by Jackson, slightly retitled "Different For Girls" and recorded as a duet with Joy Askew, was included on the 12-inch vinyl and CD formats of Jackson's 1991 single "[[Stranger than Fiction (Joe Jackson song)|Stranger than Fiction]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NjOldjR5J4C&q=Joy+Askew |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |isbn=9780787610371|access-date=18 October 2020|last1=Graff|first1=Gary}}</ref> On the ''[[Laughter and Lust]]'' tour in 1991, it was performed as a duet with [[Mindy Jostyn]], and their performance of the song at Sydney was included on the 1992 release ''[[Laughter & Lust Live]]''.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Laughter & Lust Live |others=Joe Jackson |year=1992 |type=VHS |id=9031 777243-3 |location=US }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0812/12121.html|title=Joe Jackson: It's Still Mock 'n' Roll|date=12 August 1991|website=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref>


The original version of the song was also included on Jackson's 1990 compilation ''[[Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson]]'' and again on the 1997 compilation ''[[This Is It! (The A&M Years 1979–1989)]]''. "Come On" was released as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of ''I'm the Man'' - prior to this it had only been available on ''Propaganda'', a 1979 A&M records sampler notable for live tracks from Joe Jackson and [[The Police]].
The original version of the song was also included on Jackson's 1990 compilation ''[[Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson]]'' and again on the 1997 compilation ''[[This Is It! (The A&M Years 1979–1989)]]''. "Come On" was released as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of ''I'm the Man'' - prior to this it had only been available on ''Propaganda'', a 1979 A&M records sampler notable for live tracks from Joe Jackson and [[The Police]].


==Composition==
==Composition==
The song opens with a simple repeated two-note pattern on guitar which is quickly joined by a pulse on bass and drums. The first section of the verse remains quiet, with these instruments and the singer's voice being the main components. In the second section of the verse the dynamics change, with two strident beats on the lyrics "She said", and then drop back down to a quieter chorus driven by a slow [[arpeggio|arpeggiated]] guitar pattern, over which the vocal floats in a more complex melody, before returning to the original two-note guitar and bass pulse of the introduction.
The song opens with a simple repeated two-note pattern on guitar which is quickly joined by a pulse on bass and drums. The first section of the verse remains quiet, with these instruments and the singer's voice being the main components. In the second section of the verse the dynamics change, with two strident beats on the lyrics "She said", and then drop back down to a quieter chorus driven by a slow [[arpeggio|arpeggiated]] guitar pattern, over which the vocal floats in a more complex melody, before returning to the original two-note guitar and bass pulse of the introduction.{{cn|date=April 2024}}


==Critical reception==
Unlike many of Jackson's later songs, he plays no instruments, keyboards being absent from the track.
Upon its release, [[David Hepworth]] of ''[[Smash Hits]]'' described "It's Different for Girls" as "a very good song but a mite too sprawling and unfocused to be much of a hit".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hepworth |first=David |title=Reviews: Singles |magazine=[[Smash Hits]] |date=29 November 1979 |volume=1 |issue=26 |page=30}}</ref> James Belsey of the ''[[Bristol Post|Bristol Evening Post]]'' picked it as the newspaper's "single of the week" and noted the "attractive sound" and "nicely observed lyrics". He concluded it was "by far the best single release so far from the talented Joe Jackson".<ref>{{cite news |last=Belsey |first=James |title=Pops: Single of the week |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004769/19791222/006/0006 |newspaper=[[Bristol Post|Bristol Evening Post]] |date=22 December 1979 |page=6 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref> In the US, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' wrote, "Though the lyrics may be scathing, the instrumentation is laidback and backup singers provide nice harmonies."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Top Single Picks |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=10 November 1979 |publisher=Billboard Publications, Inc. |page=81 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> ''[[Record World]]'' called it "a power pop ballad with echoing vocals and keyboards that carry Jackson's thoughtfully poignant message about male/female roles."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Single Picks |magazine=[[Record World]] |date=10 November 1979 |volume=36 |issue=1686 |page=16 |issn=0034-1622}}</ref>

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In 2007, ''[[Freaky Trigger]]'' ranked the song at number 52 in its list of "The Top 100 Songs of All Time".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freakytrigger.co.uk/tag/top-100-songs-of-all-time/page/6/ |title=top 100 songs of all time |publisher=FreakyTrigger |access-date=2016-10-15}}</ref> ''Glide Magazine'' ranked it as Jackson's 5th best song.<ref name="glide">{{cite web |last1=Handler |first1=Shane |title=Volume 26: Joe Jackson |date=15 June 2009 |url=https://glidemagazine.com/14004/volume-26-joe-jackson/ |publisher=Glide Magazine |access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref>


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
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==Charts==
==Charts==
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|-
!Chart (1979)
! scope="col"| Chart (1979)
!Peak<br>position
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|-
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=151}}</ref>
! scope="row"| Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=151}}</ref>
| 85
| style="text-align:center;"|85
|-
|-
|[[Irish Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/DQiZwRY.jpg|title=Screen shot of search results for 'Joe Jackson'|publisher=Fireball Media|accessdate=2015-12-04}}</ref>
! scope="row"| [[Irish Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/DQiZwRY.jpg|title=Screen shot of search results for 'Joe Jackson'|publisher=Fireball Media|access-date=2015-12-04}}</ref>
| 4
| style="text-align:center;"|4
|-
|-
|[[UK Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17919/joe-jackson/|title=Official Charts > Joe Jackson|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|accessdate=2015-12-04}}</ref>
! scope="row"| Netherlands ([[Dutch Top 40|Tipparade]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.top40.nl/joe-jackson/joe-jackson-it-s-different-for-girls-15672 |title=Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls |publisher=[[Dutch Top 40]] |language=nl |access-date=20 December 2024}}</ref>
| 6
| style="text-align:center;"|5
|-
|-
! scope="row"| [[UK Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17919/joe-jackson/|title=Official Charts > Joe Jackson|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|access-date=2015-12-04}}</ref>
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|[[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]
| 5
| style="text-align:center;"|101
|-
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! scope="row"| US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]
| 101
|}
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| released = December 2008
| released = December 2008
| format = CD, digital download
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===Other versions===
===Other versions===
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*In 2019, [[Trevor Horn]] performed an orchestral arrangement of the song on his album ''[[Trevor Horn Reimagines the Eighties]]'', featuring [[Marillion]]{{'}}s [[Steve Hogarth]] on lead vocals.{{cn|date=April 2024}}
*The song was recorded by [[Farrah (band)|Farrah]], and released as a track on their 2004 album ''[[Me Too (album)|Me Too]]''.
*In January 2022, [[The Smile (band)|the Smile]], comprising [[Radiohead]] members [[Thom Yorke]] and [[Jonny Greenwood]] and drummer [[Tom Skinner (drummer)|Tom Skinner]], performed the song at two of their debut shows in London.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Deville|first=Chris|date=2022-01-31|title=Watch the Smile Cover Joe Jackson's "It's Different For Girls"|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2174594/the-smile-cover-joe-jacksons-its-different-for-girls/news/|access-date=2022-02-08|website=[[Stereogum]]|language=en}}</ref>
*In 2012, [[Joe Pernice]] recorded a version of the song for a fund raising CD titled ''Super Hits of the Seventies'' for radio station [[WFMU]].
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*In 2019, [[Trevor Horn]] performed an orchestral arrangement of the song on his album ''[[Trevor Horn Reimagines the Eighties]]'', featuring [[Marillion]]{{'}}s [[Steve Hogarth]] on lead vocals.


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{MetroLyrics song|joe-jackson|its-different-for-girls}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider -->


{{Joe Jackson}}
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[[Category:Joe Jackson (musician) songs]]
[[Category:Joe Jackson (musician) songs]]

Latest revision as of 17:33, 20 December 2024

For the TV episode, see It's Different for Girls (Friday Night Lights).
Not to be confused with Different for Girls.
"It’s Different for Girls"
Single by Joe Jackson
from the album I'm the Man
B-side
Released30 Nov 1979 (UK)
RecordedMarch 1979
TW Studios, Fulham, London
GenreNew wave
Length3:42
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Joe Jackson
Producer(s)David Kershenbaum
Joe Jackson singles chronology
"I'm the Man"
(1979) 		"It’s Different for Girls"
(1979) 		"Kinda Kute"
(1980)

"It’s Different for Girls" is a song by Joe Jackson appearing on his 1979 album, I'm the Man. The song has since become one of his most successful singles, notably being the highest charting Joe Jackson single in the UK. Covers have been recorded and released by several artists.

Background

[edit]

"It's Different for Girls" contained lyrics that feature Jackson "deliberately turn[ing] clichés on their head" in that, while originally sounding as if the song would suggest that the male protagonist was looking for sex and his female partner was looking for love, the opposite is revealed to be the case.[1] Jackson later said on the song's lyrics:

It was something that I heard somewhere that struck me as a cliché. The sort of thing that someone might say. And again, I thought, What could that be about? And that maybe the idea was to turn it on its head and have a conversation between a man and a woman and what you'd expect to be the typical roles are reversed. So that was the idea of that.

— Joe Jackson, Songfacts, 2012[2]

Taken from the Gold-certified 1979 album I'm the Man, "It's Different for Girls" was Joe Jackson's biggest UK chart single, peaking at #5 in the UK Singles Chart and #101 in Billboard.[3] The song was backed with another track from I'm the Man, "Friday," in Britain, but in America, a live cover of the Chuck Berry song "Come On" was used instead.

Other appearances

[edit]

Apart from appearing as a single and on the album I'm the Man, "It's Different for Girls" has also appeared on other Joe Jackson albums. A live version appeared on Live 1980/86 in 1987, having been recorded on Jackson's Big World tour in 1986. A different live version appeared on the 2000 album Summer in the City: Live in New York.

A new studio recording of the song by Jackson, slightly retitled "Different For Girls" and recorded as a duet with Joy Askew, was included on the 12-inch vinyl and CD formats of Jackson's 1991 single "Stranger than Fiction".[4] On the Laughter and Lust tour in 1991, it was performed as a duet with Mindy Jostyn, and their performance of the song at Sydney was included on the 1992 release Laughter & Lust Live.[5][6]

The original version of the song was also included on Jackson's 1990 compilation Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson and again on the 1997 compilation This Is It! (The A&M Years 1979–1989). "Come On" was released as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of I'm the Man - prior to this it had only been available on Propaganda, a 1979 A&M records sampler notable for live tracks from Joe Jackson and The Police.

Composition

[edit]

The song opens with a simple repeated two-note pattern on guitar which is quickly joined by a pulse on bass and drums. The first section of the verse remains quiet, with these instruments and the singer's voice being the main components. In the second section of the verse the dynamics change, with two strident beats on the lyrics "She said", and then drop back down to a quieter chorus driven by a slow arpeggiated guitar pattern, over which the vocal floats in a more complex melody, before returning to the original two-note guitar and bass pulse of the introduction.[citation needed]

Critical reception

[edit]

Upon its release, David Hepworth of Smash Hits described "It's Different for Girls" as "a very good song but a mite too sprawling and unfocused to be much of a hit".[7] James Belsey of the Bristol Evening Post picked it as the newspaper's "single of the week" and noted the "attractive sound" and "nicely observed lyrics". He concluded it was "by far the best single release so far from the talented Joe Jackson".[8] In the US, Billboard wrote, "Though the lyrics may be scathing, the instrumentation is laidback and backup singers provide nice harmonies."[9] Record World called it "a power pop ballad with echoing vocals and keyboards that carry Jackson's thoughtfully poignant message about male/female roles."[10]

In 2007, Freaky Trigger ranked the song at number 52 in its list of "The Top 100 Songs of All Time".[11] Glide Magazine ranked it as Jackson's 5th best song.[12]

Personnel

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  • Joe Jackson – vocals
  • Gary Sanford – guitar
  • Graham Maby – bass, vocals
  • David Houghton – drums, vocals

Charts

[edit]
Chart (1979) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[13] 85
Irish Singles Chart[14] 4
Netherlands (Tipparade)[15] 6
UK Singles Chart[16] 5
US Billboard Hot 100 101

Cover versions

[edit]

Siskin version

[edit]
"It's Different for Girls"
Single by Siskin
from the album Siskin
ReleasedDecember 2008
GenrePop
Length3:07
LabelSiskin Music
Songwriter(s)Joe Jackson
Producer(s)Stephen Lironi
Siskin singles chronology
"It's Different for Girls"
(2008) 		"Find a Better Life"
(2009)

"It's Different for Girls" was covered by English duo Siskin, as their debut single in 2008. It is the group's only cover version to date.

Personnel

[edit]
  • Galen Ayers - guitar, vocals
  • Kirsty Newton - keyboards, bass, vocals

Other versions

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Runtagh, Jordan. "Joe Jackson on His New Album and 40 Years of Following His Muse: 'I Have a Horror of Being Trendy'". People. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  2. ^ MacIntosh, Dan. "Joe Jackson interview". songfacts.com.
  3. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 274. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. ^ Graff, Gary (1996). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. ISBN 9780787610371. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  5. ^ Laughter & Lust Live (VHS). Joe Jackson. US. 1992. 9031 777243-3.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ "Joe Jackson: It's Still Mock 'n' Roll". Christian Science Monitor. 12 August 1991. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  7. ^ Hepworth, David (29 November 1979). "Reviews: Singles". Smash Hits. Vol. 1, no. 26. p. 30.
  8. ^ Belsey, James (22 December 1979). "Pops: Single of the week". Bristol Evening Post. p. 6. Retrieved 27 October 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. Billboard Publications, Inc. 10 November 1979. p. 81. ISSN 0006-2510.
  10. ^ "Single Picks". Record World. Vol. 36, no. 1686. 10 November 1979. p. 16. ISSN 0034-1622.
  11. ^ "top 100 songs of all time". FreakyTrigger. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  12. ^ Handler, Shane (15 June 2009). "Volume 26: Joe Jackson". Glide Magazine. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  13. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 151. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  14. ^ "Screen shot of search results for 'Joe Jackson'". Fireball Media. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  15. ^ "Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  16. ^ "Official Charts > Joe Jackson". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  17. ^ Deville, Chris (31 January 2022). "Watch the Smile Cover Joe Jackson's "It's Different For Girls"". Stereogum. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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