Alan Eugene Jackson (born 17 October 1958 in Newnan, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter. He was influenced by the new traditional country of the 1980s, and he was one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending both honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. His success continued into the 2000s and his music became increasingly counterposed with that of more mainstream country acts that were moving toward a more pop music sound. He is the recipient and nominee of multiple awards. He was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Alan Jackson was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Howard Antony.
Kind-hearted Alan, gave the Jackson family some much needed stability. He loved and cared for Carol's children as if they were his own. Their relationship did not go so smoothly however. Carol's stubborn and nagging nature eventually drove him into the arms of another woman.
Alan Jackson was a United States broadcaster. He was the head anchor at CBS Radio News in New York City for over twenty-five years beginning during the Second World War, reading the 6:00 PM national evening news (then the network's main news program) and anchoring coverage of many of the major news headlines of the day. He anchored CBS News's coverage of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, of the joining of US and Soviet forces in April of 1945, and of V-E Day in May of that year.
He is thought to have been the first newscaster to announce the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. According to Dan Rather in his book The Camera Never Blinks, Rather advised Jackson from Dallas that there were unconfirmed reports that the President was dead; Jackson immediately went on air with the announcement.
Alan Jackson retired from CBS in or before 1981.
Alan Jackson (born 1938) is a Scottish poet.
Born in Liverpool, of Scottish parents. Back in Edinburgh, 1940. Royal High School, Edinburgh 52-56. Edinburgh University 56-59. Began reading career on Edinburgh Festival fringe, with the London poets, Pete Brown, Mike Horovitz and Libby Houston, 1960. Self -published Underwater Wedding, 1961.
1965 Founded the yearly series of readings during the Edinburgh Festival in the Traverse Theatre (with Tony Jackson, no relation). These readings became a platform for the Liverpool poets, Brian Patten, Adrian Henri and Roger McGough and for the older Scottish poets Edwin Morgan, Robert Garioch and Norman McCaig. Hamish Henderson brought folk singers. Pentangle played there, and The Scaffold. Poets such as Pete Morgan and Pete Roche (editor of Love Love Love,) first appeared at these Traverse readings.
Jackson went on from this time till the early seventies to give hundreds of readings throughout Britain, often solo, but mostly with Patten, Mitchell, Morgan, Houston and others of the poets mentioned above.
In 1968 he was published in Penguin Modern Poets 12 and in 1969 by the avant garde Fulcrum Press (publishers of Ed Dorn and Gary Snyder).
In June 1971 the whole issue of Lines Review 37, the Scottish literary magazine, was devoted to Jackson’s essay, The Knitted Claymore, which expressed his conviction that rising nationalist sentiment in Scotland was infiltrating and distorting the realm of literature. As could be expected the essay was widely welcomed and widely attacked.
In 1973 Jackson announced that he was retiring from the ‘reading scene’. The time had come he said ‘to obey the poetry’, rather than merely purveying it to others. This move of Jackson’s only makes sense when it is considered that his poetry had never been one of nature description or social anecdote, but had themes of self-inquisition and self-undoing.
Heart of the Sun, 1986, Open Township, has a long introduction entitled Reasons for the Work, describing his poetic evolution through the years since the decision to ‘retire’. Jackson had always had considerable philosophical and historical interests and a main feature of the introduction is his account of how experiences of his own led him to the work of Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian Christian initiate.
This new phase in Jackson’s life led to the writing of short ‘stories’, in italics because they are not so much realist, but have something of the nature of myth and fable. He was also writing ideas pieces, investigating and expressing ‘the spirit forces’ at work in our time.
This later work was published in two volumes, Walking Through Apocalypse, and A Great Beauty, Stories and Dialogues, in 2007 by the print on demand publishers Lulu.com. (www.lulu.com)
Finally, it is worth mentioning that Alan Jackson’s short poem, ‘Young Politician’, is to be found carved in the outer wall of the new Scottish Parliament along with quotations from Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh McDiarmid.
