Lee Jackson (bassist)
Lee Jackson (born 8 January 1943) is an English bass guitarist and singer-songwriter, known for his work in The Nice, an English progressive-rock band as well as his own band formed after The Nice, Jackson Heights, and finally Refugee with Nice dummer Brian Davison and Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz.
Early life and education
He was born Keith Anthony Joseph Jackson in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Career
He first played with unknown bands The Vandykes and The Invaders, and then he joined Gary Farr and the T-Bones, in which he met their organist Keith Emerson. And the two would meet again later to form a band to back american singer P P Arnold, ex-Ike & Tina Turner Revue, who was starting a solo career in England. And then The Nice were born, with guitarist David O'List and Ian Hague on drums, soon to be replaced by Brian Davison. And when Emerson left the band to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer in 1970, he subsequently formed the band Jackson Heights with Charlie Harcourt on guitars, Mario Enrique Covarrubias Tapia on bass and spanish guitars and Tommy Sloane on drums, they soon disbanded after the first album King Progress in 1970. But then Jackson reformed the band with ex-Warriors and ex-Flaming Youth keyboardist Brian Chatton and John McBurnie also on keys and vocals, drummer Michael Giles played drums on the next three albums but the band would tour as a trio without drums. On their last record, "Bump n' grind", another ex-King Crimson Ian Wallace and Deep Purple's Ian Paice shared drums with Michael Giles. And then he formed the band Refugee, the latter with ex-Nice drummer Brian Davison and Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz, that band only published one album before Moraz quit to join Yes. He and Davison reformed The Nice again with Emerson, accompanied by The Keith Emerson Band, for a tour of England in 2002 and a live album Vivacitas was recorded and published that same year.
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Lee Jackson (composer)
Lee Jackson is an American composer. He was the Music and Sound Director for the video game developer 3D Realms from 1994 through 2002. He is most well known for his work on Duke Nukem 3D and Rise of the Triad, specifically for creating Duke Nukem 3D's main theme titled "Grabbag". He collaborated with Robert Prince to create the two games' instrumental background tracks. Jackson created all of the tracks for the fourth episode of Duke Nukem 3D, better known as the "Plutonium Pak Add-On" or as the full four-episode "Atomic Edition."
Game music and audio development
While at Apogee/3D Realms, Lee Jackson also served as the primary composer for the later 3D Realms title Shadow Warrior, and was involved with many other games published by 3D Realms and Apogee Software. His duties also called for sound design on Shadow Warrior and on early versions of Duke Nukem Forever.
Lee also did voice acting, direction, and effects for games by Apogee and 3D Realms, as well as for the Balls of Steel pinball game, released under the Apogee one-off subsidiary Pinball Wizards label. His own voice acting characters include the "Fat Commander" in Duke Nukem 3D, the "Doug Wendt" character in Rise of the Triad, and "Zilla" in Shadow Warrior. Aside from performing several characters used in Balls of Steel, he also auditioned talent and directed recording sessions for Apogee and 3D Realms games at Bill Reardon's RR Brand Productions studio in Dallas.
Lee Jackson (rugby league)
Lee Jackson is an English former rugby league footballer of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s. He was a hooker for the Great Britain team, England, Hull (twice), Sheffield Eagles, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Newcastle Knights, Leeds, and York.
Hull-born Jackson was arguably the most talented British hooker of his generation. He featured on the 1990 Lions tour and played in Hull's 14-4 victory over Widnes in the Premiership final during the 1990–91 season at Old Trafford, Manchester on 12 May 1991. before joining Sheffield Eagles. He was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Lee Jackson scored the fastest ever try in either code of rugby, after 9-seconds for Hull in the 8-12 defeat by Sheffield Eagles in the 1992 Yorkshire Cup semi-final during the 1992–93 season at the Don Valley Stadium on Tuesday 6 October 1992, this world record still stands today.
In 1993, Sheffield Eagles paid Hull a fee of £83,000 for Lee Jackson (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £164,900 in 2013), this makes him the most expensive hooker in the history of rugby league.
