Dee D. Jackson

Dee D. Jackson (born Deirdre Elaine Cozier, 15 July 1954, Oxford, England) is an English singer and musician who was primarily associated with the space disco genre. In the 1970s, she worked as a film producer in Munich before moving into music, working with Giorgio Moroder, Jimmy McShane and Keith Forsey. Jackson is perhaps best known for "Automatic Lover", the lead single from her concept album Cosmic Curves (1978).

Career Deirdre Elaine Cozier was born on 15 July 1954 in Oxford, England, and lived there with her father Roy (a pianist), her mother Gloria (a former chorus girl, dancer and singer) and five younger siblings until her early 20s. Her passion for music was kindled in her youth thanks to "a fabulous music teacher who thought [she] was worth investing his time on". Cozier took classical dance lessons and learned from an early age to play the violin and piano; After she "began [her] search for him", Cozier left the United Kingdom for Germany with only the clothes on her back and the little money in her pocket; she never saw the man again. and sold an estimated six to eight million copies across Europe, including peaking at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 in Germany. In Brazil, the success was such that the Brazilian media produced its own version of Dee D. Jackson, an impostor performer introduced as "D. Dee Jackson" (played by Regina Shakti) performed to the real Jackson's song during the height of her commercial success. After months of exhaustively traveling in promotion of her work, including television appearances across much of Europe, Jackson briefly moved to Los Angeles for several months before relocating to Italy, where an additional string of Italo disco and space disco singles were released to limited success. She established a recording studio in Rome and spent much of the remainder of her career as a production and writing assistant for other artists. A third album, Blame It on the Rain (1992), was completed but withdrawn from the market due to disagreements with the distributor. Thunder & Lightning (1980) [Released in Italy as The Fantastic] Blame It on the Rain (1992)

Compilation albums and boxed sets Profile (1981) Il Meglio (1998) Discomania (2002) Space and Time 2010 (2010) Starlight – The Ultimate Collection (2012) Her Story (2015)

Singles Year Title Peak chart positionsAUS UK 1977 "Man of a Man" — — — 1978 "Automatic Lover" 56 13 4 "Meteor Man" — 1 48 1979 "Which Way Is Up" — 80 — "Fireball" — 22 — 1980 "S.O.S. (Love to the Rescue)" — 26 — "Thunder and Lightning" — 64 — 1981 "Talk Me Down" — — — 1982 "Shotgun" / "How Do You Want Your Love" — — — 1984 "Moonlight Starlight" — 268 — "My Sweet Carillon" — — — "Sky Walking" — — — 1985 "Heat of the Night" — — — 1996 "People" — — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.