michael george mick jackson born 2 november 1947 mnster germany is an english singersongwriter and the cowriter of the song blame it on the boogie the song was coauthored by micks brother david jackson and elmar krohn and produced by sylvester levayjackson recorded his version first and the jacksons management team picked up the song at midem the music industry trade fair in cannes where it was offered to them by mick jacksons publisher without jacksons knowledge due to a delay at the pressing plant which was producing mick jacksons single in the uk the two versions were released within weeks of each otherthe press at the time enjoyed the similarity in the names and release coincidence calling the situation the battle of the boogie as the two records jockeyed for chart positions radio stations got on the battle bandwagon bbc radio one only played the jacksons version capital radio only played micks single the music press was equally split melody maker did not review mick jacksons version but praised the jacksons and wrongly referred to their single as a selfpenned song 16 september 1978 whereas nme hailed mick jackson as the winner of the battle calling his version far superior 7 october 1978mick jacksons original peaked at 15 and the jacksons peaked at 8 in the uk singles chart mick jacksons subsequent 1979 release weekend was released in the same week as the jacksons second single destiny the songs entered the charts on the same day peaking at 38 and 39 in the uk singles chart respectively and both michael jacksons appearing on the same edition of top of the pops weekend spent eight weeks on the chart thus equalling his earlier singles tenure and also avoiding the onehit wonder tagjackson released three albums weekend 1979 atlantic records step inside my rainbow 1980 cbs records and square deal 1982he has worked with many artists such as david knopfler eric burdon lisa stansfield and barry manilowin 2010 filmmaker patrick nation made a channel 4 documentary about jackson entitled the other michael jackson battle of the boogie the documentary was cowritten and presented by micks son sam peter jackson and it led to mick jacksons 1978 album weekend which featured the original version of blame it on the boogie being rereleased for download on itunes for the first time in thirty years by demon music to promote the documentary jackson gave a rare television interview to bbc breakfast