Editing Joe Jackson (musician) (section)

==Early years==
Born in [[Burton upon Trent]], Staffordshire, England,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> David Jackson spent his first year in nearby [[Swadlincote]], Derbyshire. He grew up in the [[Paulsgrove]] area of [[Portsmouth]], where he attended [[Trafalgar School, Portsmouth|Portsmouth Technical High School]]. Jackson's parents moved to nearby [[Gosport]] when he was a teenager. He learned to play the violin but soon switched to the piano, and prevailed on his father to install one in the hall of their Paulsgrove [[council house]]. Jackson began playing piano in bars when he was 16, and won a scholarship to study [[musical composition]] at London's [[Royal Academy of Music]].<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1247}}</ref>