Mick Jones

Michael Leslie Jones born 27 December 1944 is an English musician songwriter and record producer best known as the last remaining original member of the BritishAmerican rock band Foreigner Prior to Foreigner he was in the band Spooky Tooth Michael Leslie Jones was born on 27 December 1944 in Portsmouth England Jones started playing guitar at an early age and decided to pursue a career in music He began his professional music career in the early 1960s as a member of the band Nero and the Gladiators who scored two minor British hit singles in 1961 After the demise of Nero and the Gladiators Jones worked as a songwriter and session musician in France for such artists as Françoise Hardy Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday The French Elvis for whom he wrote many songs including Je suis né dans la rue and À tout casser which features Jimmy Page on guitar When The Beatles toured France in 1964 they befriended Jones when Hallydays girlfriend and future wife Sylvie Vartan played on the same bill as they did Between 1965 and 1971 Jones recorded in France with Tommy Brown Thomas R Browne as State of Mickey Tommy as well as under other session names including the Blackburds Nimrod and the JB After leaving France to return to his home country Jones joined Gary Wright formerly of the band Spooky Tooth to form Wonderwheel in 1971 In 1972 Jones and Wright reformed Spooky Tooth and after that Jones was a member of the Leslie West Band He also played guitar on the albums Wind of Change 1972 for Peter Frampton and Dark Horse 1974 for George Harrison In 1976 Jones formed Foreigner with Ian McDonald and recruited lead singer Lou Gramm Jones coproduced all of the bands albums and cowrote most of their songs with Gramm Jones is credited with writing the bands most successful single I Want to Know What Love Is by himself Tensions developed within the band during the late 1980s attributed to a difference in musical taste between Gramm who favoured a more hardedged rock as opposed to Jones interest in synthesisers Gramm left the band in 1990 but returned in 1992 In 1989 Jones released his only solo album titled Mick Jones on the Atlantic Records label Jones is the only person to play on every Foreigner album In between his Foreigner commitments Jones also started a side career as a producer for such albums as Van Halens 5150 1986 Bad Companys Fame and Fortune 1986 and Billy Joels Storm Front 1989 He cowrote with Eric Clapton the song Bad Love on Claptons Journeyman album and in 2002 cowrote the song On Her Mind with Duncan Sheik In the late 1990s and early 2000s he played with Bill Wymans Rhythm Kings Jones is married to socialitewriterjewelry designer Ann DexterJones mother of Mark Samantha and Charlotte Ronson He and DexterJones have two children Annabelle DexterJones and Alexander DexterJones Married for nearly 25 years 19832007 they divorced in 2007 In March 2017 the couple remarried Jones also has two sons Roman Jones and Christopher Jones from prior relationships Source Article Mick Jones Foreigner guitarist from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30