I remember seeing the Jets in concert.It was in March 1986 and the bill also included Ready For The World and Doug E.Fresh with Slick Rick Talk about a blast from the past,lol.

Seriously,the Jets put on the best performance.They were very 'new' at the time ("Crush On You" had just been released as a single) but they performed with alot of energy and professionalism.I was impressed.I heard that Prince attended one of their shows from this period and he was interested in having them as the opening act for his 'Parade Tour'.

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TotalAlisa said:

Both groups have an extremely 80s sound

I liked a few of five star's songs but they were just
jackson 5 knockoffs to me with female singers. I thought
the jets were fresh and original during their heyday.

I can't. I mean, I just CAN'T.

I LOVED both of those groups back in the day, BUT I owned the Jets cassette and have two of their Best Of CDs right now. (One didn't have "Private Number" on it.)

Sorry, but I can't.

I never owned their music, but I youtube the hewl outta 5 Star these days.

phunkdaddy said:

Yeah,The boys does favor MJ back in the day.

Wow didn't known they had such a following ..there broke now ..sad..taxman took it all away..

Former 5 Star lead vocalist, songwriter and Brit Award-winner Denise Pearson is to make her West End debut in Thriller - Live, the spectacular, high-octane show specially created to celebrate the career of the world's greatest entertainer and undisputed King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

She is joined by award-winning Ricko Baird, who co-choreographed Michael Jackson's Number 1 hit, "You Rock My World", and doubled for him in the video. He was also lead dancer alongside Michael himself on the award-winning "Dangerous" on the "Michael Jackson and Friends" tour.

Thriller - Live, celebrating the musical hits and career of Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, is moonwalking into the West End after three acclaimed UK tours and standing ovations across Germany, Holland and Scandanavia.Thriller - Live begins previews at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on Friday January 2. Press night is Wednesday January 21. It is booking to Sunday April 12.

The full cast of Thriller - Live includes:

Denise Pearson and Ricko Baird and the previously announced young boys, Layton Williams (the first black Billy Elliot, and star on TV of Jonathan Harvey's "Beautiful People"); Sterling Williams (18 months as young Simba in "The Lion King"); and newcommer Kieran Alleyne; are joined by Roger Wright, who created the role of Simba in the original cast of "The Lion King" and played Marvin Gaye in the West End production of "Dancing in the Streets"; John Moabi (2008 Evening Standard Best Musical "Street Scene"); Ben Foster (Doody in the West End production of "Grease") and Ashton Russell, with Kamilah Beckles; Ivan Blackstock; Jordan Darrell; Jo Dyce; Christabelle Fields; Elliott James; Earl Perkins; Danni Rothman; Emily Rumbles; Ross Sands; Sean Williams; and Yasmin Yazdi.

Denise Pearson formed British R & B group 5 Star - dubbed "the British Jackson 5" - in 1983 with her four siblings, Stedman, Lorraine, Doris and Delroy. 5 Star songs written by her include "Stay Out of My Life" - the group's only self-composed Top 10 hit - "Hard Race", "There's a Brand New World", "What About Me Baby", "Live Giving Love", "Let Me Be Yours", "Feel Much Better", "Funktafied", "Don't Let Me Be the Lonely One", "Tell Me What You Want"; "I'm Still Waiting", "Tienes Mi Amour", "The Love You Bring To Me", "Going With the Moment" and "Show Me". In 1986, 5 Star received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance for Pearson's composition, "First Avenue", which was the B-side of 5 Star's first hit single "All Fall Down". In 1987 the group won a Brit Award for Best British Group. They disbanded in 2006. After moving to California with her family in the early 1990s, Denise married a racing driver. In 1994 she gave birth to a son, Karan Saneinia, followed by a daughter, Hassa Alexis Saneinia a year later.

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SoulAlive said:

Thank you.

angel345 said:

That song is GREAT! Reminds me of late 1986/early 1987,when it was getting tremendous airplay on the R&B and pop stations.

5 Star.

And thanks for the pic.



I love the one on the back cover of that album also . You got that one, too?

SoulAlive said:

They were some cute and interesting singing Polynesians. You don't find too much of their ethnicity in hollywood, but you would see them in wrestling and maybe football. The Rock is half-Polynesian.

I love the Jet's last album and the first Greatest Hits Album. They were so R&B.

Five Star just edges them out because they could do a rock song, pop song etc...
Five Star didn't sit in the same box and also branched out into controlling the path of thier career by producing and writing thier own stuff.

Check out the Video for Five Star's "Theres a Brand New World" on You Tube. They were very different when it may not have been popular to be (on either side of the pond).

My favorite Jet ever was Joe Namath.

Five Star werent really mainstream popular in the US for very long. More like a flash in the pan popularity. The Jets were very popular for a few years and still have their old songs getting airplay on oldies and MOR stations.

Kind of a tie. I liked Five Star better but The Jets had more energy and more hits.

The Jets by far. You know, they once performed at my high school back in '89. In case you're wondering what school that is: Cooley High School in Detroit, Mi.

Five Star suffered from being a british R&B group that had pop and rock songs. They weren't "black" enough with some of the later albums to be played on the US R&B stations. They were also considered very kiddie in the UK (Ala the Spice Girls) so trying to please everyone may have worked against them a bit.

I like the fact that the Jets seemed to embrace R&B and rode that train for as long as they could but radio changed in the years they were out (Urban radio used to play non-black artist buy gave them the boot before 1990. Sorry Teena Marie, George Michael, Duran, Taylor dayne, Sheena Easton.....hell even Gloria Estefan got so early 80's love on R&B stations). How many albums did the Jet's have anyway?

WillieDynamite said:

As far as I know,the Jets only did three albums...

'The Jets' (1985)
'Magic' (1987)
'The Best Of The Jets (1990) (This had a couple of "new" songs on it)

If there was an album after that,it must have been ignored.I think there's also a Jets Christmas album that came out sometime during that period.

I remember in the fall of 1987,right before the release of their second album,the Jets announced some major plans.They were negotiating with Disney to star in two (!) movies,one of which was described as a "spy comedy adventure".There were also plans for solo albums by the lead singers,as well as a TV special.Unfortunately,their popularity quickly went downhill and those projects were cancelled.They released a new single in 1990 that went nowhere.

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