B8 - Sunday, December 4, 1983 - North Shore News

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TERRY JACKS hasn’t been in eclipse for nine
years, it’s just that, after the phenomenonal success
of his 1974 hit Seasons in the Sun, he decided to
retire into the shade for a while in the comfort of
his West Vancouver home.

By NANCY WEATHERLEY

He is back in the musical
mainstream again, however,
with a new record album,
Pulses, and a contract with A
and M records to produce
‘*several more’’.

Why has he been so long in
the shade?

According to Jacks it’s
because ‘‘I don’t want to be
bugged all the time. I like to
share my music, but I like a
private life.’’ .

After Seasons, he says,
‘‘everything closed in on
me.’”’

He realized how short-
lived that number one posi-
tion is, and decided to ‘‘quit
while I was ahead,’’ although
that wasn’t as easy as it
sounds. ‘‘I was turning down

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Seasons in the Sun is still in

bye to his priest while he lies
dying of a broken h

because of his unfaithful
wife. It was written in a

Tangiers brothel.

Jacks’ adaptation, about a
young singer dying, brought
the song closer to him per-
sonally,

and to North

PULSES is the first album for Terry Jacks in nine years, and
it should be generally available after Christmas.

the number five or six spot
for best selling records of all
time (it fluctuates), and yet
Jacks had no idea he was sit-
ting on a gold mine while he
kept the song in his basement
for seven months.

He had spent some time
with Jaques Brel before the
latter died and Seasons was
an adaptation of a Brel song
about a man bidding good-

America. ‘

But nobody wanted to sing
or produce it so Jacks sang
and produced it himself. He
was sick of it, he says, by the
time it finally came out. But
then he says he never likes
anything he does — with a
modesty that sounds sincere.
(He also hates having his pic-
ture taken especially by the
local paper in the town where

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"he lives.)

Now, ‘‘after standing at
the side, not getting my feet
wet”? Jacks is back.

Following his plan, he’s
been able to escape from the
limelight to his 250 acre
farm, his fishing boat, the
Queen Charlottes and
Europe at will.

And he’s never lost the
**pulse’” of popular music
opinion. ‘‘I don’t hang
around with the jet setters,
my friends are all basic
people.’’

And the new album, Pulse,
seems to fit perfectly into
Jacks’ successful pattern for
life and music. The themes
on this album include love,
television, and the preserva-
tion of the Queen Charlottes.
Pulse is by no means a block-
buster album, but it is com-
fortable, and enjoyable
listening to it on the living
room stereo is like having a
visit from an old and comfor-
table friend from down the
street.

Two of the songs, Voice of
America, and Laura Dreams
are written) by North Shore
News senior advettising
representative Dave
Jennesen.

Terry Jacks, who loves
new projects and challenges,
admits he is a_ limited
vocalist, but enjoys all facets
of music, especially
producing.

The architecture student
who got into music becasue
he ‘‘wanted to make a record
like Buddy Holly’’ has just
recently starred in a movie
for Pay TV. It could be the
start of a whole new season

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