On the US television show American Idol, contestant Blake Lewis sung Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity. Judges Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul loved it, but British judge Simon Cowell felt that he was copying Jay, although he did go original by adding some scat and beatboxing at the end. Randy Jackson, did say that most viewers may not know who Jamiroquai is but they should because he is huge all over the world. With the number of viewers that American Idol gets then this can only be good publicity for the band.
Credit: Tony Gravato, Eric Zupancich, Diego Zelaya, Suzan Tessier
Light Years was released as a single in the US this week in 1996. The same day in 2000, the UK press went crazy with the news that Jay and Denise Van Outen had got engaged.