On May 7, 1979 Joe Jackson released "One More Time", a third single from his breakthrough debut, Look Sharp! The song didn't chart but is memorable for its punk fury and the bass playing of Graham Maby. In his autobiography, A Cure For Gravity, Jackson says the song was inspired by a bitter break-up:
I bought a cheap secondhand upright piano and worked on a song called 'One More Time', with a driving guitar riff and anguished lyrics about the end of a relationship. The guy can't believe the girl wants to leave: Tell me one more time, he says, one more time, one more time. I'd taken a little piece of my breakup with Jill, one moment, one feeling, and embellished it into something else. I guess that's how fiction works: not creating something false, but creating new truths out of bits of old ones. Just as we create new music by endlessly reshuffling the same old chords and scales.
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