American musician and founding member of the Jackson 5 who went on to have a solo career with his own blues band
Tito Jackson, who has died aged 70 of a heart attack, remembered his first visit to Britain as a member of the Jackson 5, in 1972. He described how “we had something like 10,000 screaming fans to greet us at the airport. I got lost in the airport and had 1,000 fans chasing me, pulling everywhere. It was crazy.”
The group’s glittering run of success included four successive US No 1 singles in 1969-70, I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save and I’ll Be There, and they amassed 17 Top 40 singles in five years as well as a string of successful albums.
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