Mick Jones
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- View from the Hill
- Clash
- Life and Times of Mick Jones
- Lincoln History And Guide
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1931-09-12
- Active to
- 2013-04-26
Discography
- Grand Ole Opry’s New Star George Jones Country Song Hits1956
- Sings 14 Top Country Favorites1957
- Country Church Time1959
- George Jones Sings White Lightning and Other Favorites1959
- George Jones Salutes Hank Williams1960
- The Crown Prince of Country Music1960
- Duets Country Style1962
- Sings Bob Wills1962
- Sings Country and Western Hits1962
- Sings the Hits of His Country Cousins1962
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,905
- Total plays
- 13,643
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There are two musicians known as Mick Jones, one connected to The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, the other to Foreigner. Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Jones (born 26 June 1955) was the lead guitarist and a vocalist of the British punk rock band The Clash until his dismissal in 1983. He went on to form the band Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts before line-up changes led to the formation of Big Audio Dynamite II and later Big Audio. In recent years Mick Jones has been collaborating with fellow punk ic
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Geoffrey Jones , ( 1955-06-26 ) 26 June 1955 (age 70) , Wandsworth , London, England
- Genres
- Punk rock post-punk new wave experimental rock alternative rock
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter singer record producer
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals keyboards
- Years active
- 1975–present
- Labels
- CBS I.R.S. Radioactive
- Member of
- Carbon/Silicon
- Formerly of
- The Clash Rich Kids General Public Big Audio Dynamite Gorillaz London SS
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wandsworth
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- hard rock
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Record label
- I.R.S. Records
- Image
- Mickjones.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mick Jones
- date of birth
- 1955-06-26
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- birth name
- Michael Geoffrey Jones
- name in native language
- Mick Jones
- different from
- Mick Jones
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- start of work period
- 1975-00-00
- member of
- Big Audio Dynamite
- unmarried partner
- Viv Albertine
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Geoffrey Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of punk rock band the Clash, until his dismissal by frontman Joe Strummer in 1983. In 1984, he formed Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts. Jones has played with the band Carbon/Silicon along with Tony James (formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik) since 2002 and was part of the Gorillaz live band for a world tour in 2010. In late 2011, Jones collaborated with Pete Wylie and members of the Farm to form the Justice Tonight Band.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mick Jones” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.