Meanings
- uncountableIntense fanatical enthusiasm for the American pop band The Jackson 5.
Jacksonmania had hit London and everyone was growing their hair in huge Afros and using an Afro fork to keep it in shape.
2006, Constance Briscoe, Ugly, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN2 more examples
Retailers were reporting that summer that Jacksonmania was the biggest thing to hit the rock spinoff trade since the Beatles.
1986, Charles Jordan, What to Save from the ’80s, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine, →ISBN, page 63Gordy signed The Jackson 5 in 1969, leading to the “Jacksonmania” of the early 1970s, but by mid-decade the top sellers were the high-society soul of Diana Ross and the ballads of the Commodores – Gordy focused more on producing movies such as The Wiz (1978).
2017, The Great Lakes, Rough Guides, →ISBN
Origin
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