1919 Driftin’ Slim*
1924 John Jackson*
1936 Willie Kent*
1939 Abu Talib*
1942 Paul Jones*
1942 Paul Jones*
1950 George Thorogood*
1953 Carl Weathersby*
1954 John Frazer*
1988 Memphis Slim+
1991 Tyler Bryant*
2004 A.C. Reed+
2015
Robert "Wolfman" Belfour+
Marion Turner*
Ben Poole*
Paul Jones *24.02.1942
Paul Jones (* 24. Februar 1942 in Portsmouth, Hampshire als Paul Pond) ist ein britischer Sänger, Schauspieler und Mundharmonikaspieler.
Bekannt wurde Jones in den 1960er Jahren als Sänger der Popgruppe Manfred Mann. Nach seinem Ausstieg 1966 verfolgte er zeitweilig eine Solokarriere als Sänger. In Großbritannien gelangen ihm mit High Time, das 1966 auf Platz 4 der Singles-Charts kam, und mit I've Been A Bad Bad Boy, 1967 auf Platz 5, zwei Hits.[1] Er wirkte außerdem in Film- und Musicalproduktionen mit wie 1967 in dem britischen Film Privileg und war mit Alexis Korner im Rockpalast zu hören (The Party Album, 1978). Seit den 80er Jahren ist Paul Jones Sänger der Blues Band, seit 1991 Mitglied bei The Manfreds, einer Band aus ehemaligen Mitgliedern der früheren Manfred-Mann-Band. Dazu gehört auch Mike d’Abo, der ihn einst als Sänger bei Manfred Mann abgelöst hatte, und mit dem er bis heute gelegentlich zusammen auftritt.
2005 war Jones auf dem Album Piece by Piece der britischen Sängerin Katie Melua, 2009 auf dem Album Sessions der Nick Vernier Band zu hören. 2007 wurden 2 DVDs mit Dave Kelly und Paul Jones veröffentlicht. (An Evening with Paul Jones & Dave Kelly [live] Vol.1 & Vol.2) 2009 war er als Gastmusiker auf Joe Bonamassas DVD und CD Live from the Royal Albert Hall vertreten.
Bekannt wurde Jones in den 1960er Jahren als Sänger der Popgruppe Manfred Mann. Nach seinem Ausstieg 1966 verfolgte er zeitweilig eine Solokarriere als Sänger. In Großbritannien gelangen ihm mit High Time, das 1966 auf Platz 4 der Singles-Charts kam, und mit I've Been A Bad Bad Boy, 1967 auf Platz 5, zwei Hits.[1] Er wirkte außerdem in Film- und Musicalproduktionen mit wie 1967 in dem britischen Film Privileg und war mit Alexis Korner im Rockpalast zu hören (The Party Album, 1978). Seit den 80er Jahren ist Paul Jones Sänger der Blues Band, seit 1991 Mitglied bei The Manfreds, einer Band aus ehemaligen Mitgliedern der früheren Manfred-Mann-Band. Dazu gehört auch Mike d’Abo, der ihn einst als Sänger bei Manfred Mann abgelöst hatte, und mit dem er bis heute gelegentlich zusammen auftritt.
2005 war Jones auf dem Album Piece by Piece der britischen Sängerin Katie Melua, 2009 auf dem Album Sessions der Nick Vernier Band zu hören. 2007 wurden 2 DVDs mit Dave Kelly und Paul Jones veröffentlicht. (An Evening with Paul Jones & Dave Kelly [live] Vol.1 & Vol.2) 2009 war er als Gastmusiker auf Joe Bonamassas DVD und CD Live from the Royal Albert Hall vertreten.
Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942)[1] is an English singer, actor, harmonica player and radio personality and television presenter.
Career
Paul Jones was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. As "P.P. Pond" he performed duets with Elmo Lewis (aka future founder member of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones) at the Ealing Club, home of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, whose singers included Long John Baldry and Mick Jagger. He was asked by Keith Richards and Brian Jones to be the lead singer of a group they were forming, but he turned them down.[2] He went on to be the vocalist and harmonica player of the successful 1960s group Manfred Mann.[1] Paul Jones had several Top Ten hits with Manfred Mann before going solo in July 1966.[1][3] He remained with His Master's Voice.[3]
He was less successful without the band than they were with his replacement, Mike d'Abo, but did have a few hits, notably with "High Time" (1966) and "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" and "Thinkin' Ain't for Me" (both 1967) before branching into acting.[1] While his solo career in the UK was mildly successful,[1] he sold few records in the US. He had enough hits in Sweden to have a greatest hits album released there on EMI. Subsequent single releases in Britain in the late 1960s on the Columbia label, as a result of EMI transferring their remaining pop acts from His Master's Voice[citation needed], included "Aquarius", from the musical "Hair", and a cover version of a Bee Gees song, "And the Sun Will Shine".
From 1966 he also worked as an actor, first in films and television and then on stage, including West End shows such as Conduct Unbecoming (also on Broadway), plus the musicals Cats and Pump Boys and Dinettes. He has worked with directors such as Sir Richard Eyre, Peter Gill and Toby Robertson.
His performance opposite model Jean Shrimpton in the 1967 film Privilege,[1] directed by Peter Watkins, did not bring the hoped-for stardom, although the film later became a cult classic.[3] Jones was cast as a pop singer in the film, and sang the songs "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" and "Set Me Free", which Patti Smith covered in the 1970s.[1]
In 1971 Jones recorded Crucifix in a Horseshoe with White Cloud, a New York-based session group featuring Teddy Wender on keyboards and Kenny Kosek on fiddle.[4] In 1973 he played the title role in Bob Fosse's production of Pippin at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
In 1975 he guest starred in a TV episode of The Sweeney ("Chalk & Cheese") as a boxer turned gangster named "Tommy Garret". In 1976 he performed the role of Peron on the original concept album of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita alongside Julie Covington as Eva, Colm Wilkinson as Che and Barbara Dickson as the Mistress. His gold albums include one for Evita. In 1978 he released a single on the RSO label, orchestrated versions of the Sex Pistols' Pretty Vacant and the Ramones' Sheena is a Punk Rocker, both produced by Rice. Four years later he appeared as one of the guest vocalists on the British Electric Foundation's Music of Quality and Distinction, on a new version of There's a Ghost In My House.
In 1985, he became the host of the children's TV quiz Beat the Teacher, and stayed for the next series the following year. In 1990 he appeared in the children's series, Uncle Jack. In the meantime, he enjoyed a parallel career as presenter of radio programmes focusing mainly on rhythm and blues, notably a long-running weekly show on BBC Radio 2, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011.
He founded The Blues Band and is a member of the Manfreds, a group reuniting many[who?] original members of Manfred Mann,[1] and has also played harmonica as a session musician on recordings by artists including Gerry Rafferty, Dave Edmunds, Katie Melua, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Jackson and Marti Webb.
In 2001 Showcase appeared on Hallmark Records.
His most recent solo album is 2009's Starting All Over Again on Continental Record Services (aka CRS) in Europe and Collectors' Choice in the US.[1] It was produced by Carla Olson in Los Angeles and features Eric Clapton, Jake Andrews, Ernie Watts, Percy Sledge, Alvino Bennett, Tony Marsico, Michael Thompson, Tom Morgan Jr., Oren Waters and Luther Waters. The sequel "Suddenly I Like It" was recorded in Los Angeles, and will be released in early 2015. Among the guests: Joe Bonamassa and Jools Holland.
On 4 May 2009 Jones and his harmonica featured in a song during a concert by Joe Bonamassa in the Royal Albert Hall, London. That same month saw the single release of "I'm Your Kingpin" by Nick Vernier Band with Paul Jones on harmonica.[5] In 2010, Jones also featured on two versions of "You’re Wrong" from Nick Vernier Band's Sessions album. In 2012, he featured on a song "Solid Ground" on Oli Brown's album Here I Am.
Jones is currently the president of the National Harmonica League[6] and was awarded "harmonica player of the year" in the British blues awards of 2010 and 2011, as well as Blues Broadcaster of the year in 2011[7]
Personal life
Jones attended Portsmouth Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, although he did not graduate.
Jones was first married (1963-76) to novelist and reviewer Sheila MacLeod. There were two sons from the marriage, Matthew and Jacob. He is currently married to the former actress, and latterly Christian speaker, Fiona Hendley-Jones. He converted to Christianity in the mid 1980s as the result of being invited by Cliff Richard to a Luis Palau evangelistic event. Jones had appeared opposite Richard in the 1960s, on a television debate show where he had, at the time, opposed Richard's viewpoint. In December 2013 Jones was featured in BBC One's Songs of Praise, performing and talking with Aled Jones about his faith.[8]
Jones was pictured with his son, Matthew, for the front cover of the Radio Times in 1973 along with actor Jon Pertwee (then starring in Doctor Who) and broadcaster Michael Parkinson.
Career
Paul Jones was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. As "P.P. Pond" he performed duets with Elmo Lewis (aka future founder member of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones) at the Ealing Club, home of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, whose singers included Long John Baldry and Mick Jagger. He was asked by Keith Richards and Brian Jones to be the lead singer of a group they were forming, but he turned them down.[2] He went on to be the vocalist and harmonica player of the successful 1960s group Manfred Mann.[1] Paul Jones had several Top Ten hits with Manfred Mann before going solo in July 1966.[1][3] He remained with His Master's Voice.[3]
He was less successful without the band than they were with his replacement, Mike d'Abo, but did have a few hits, notably with "High Time" (1966) and "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" and "Thinkin' Ain't for Me" (both 1967) before branching into acting.[1] While his solo career in the UK was mildly successful,[1] he sold few records in the US. He had enough hits in Sweden to have a greatest hits album released there on EMI. Subsequent single releases in Britain in the late 1960s on the Columbia label, as a result of EMI transferring their remaining pop acts from His Master's Voice[citation needed], included "Aquarius", from the musical "Hair", and a cover version of a Bee Gees song, "And the Sun Will Shine".
From 1966 he also worked as an actor, first in films and television and then on stage, including West End shows such as Conduct Unbecoming (also on Broadway), plus the musicals Cats and Pump Boys and Dinettes. He has worked with directors such as Sir Richard Eyre, Peter Gill and Toby Robertson.
His performance opposite model Jean Shrimpton in the 1967 film Privilege,[1] directed by Peter Watkins, did not bring the hoped-for stardom, although the film later became a cult classic.[3] Jones was cast as a pop singer in the film, and sang the songs "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" and "Set Me Free", which Patti Smith covered in the 1970s.[1]
In 1971 Jones recorded Crucifix in a Horseshoe with White Cloud, a New York-based session group featuring Teddy Wender on keyboards and Kenny Kosek on fiddle.[4] In 1973 he played the title role in Bob Fosse's production of Pippin at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
In 1975 he guest starred in a TV episode of The Sweeney ("Chalk & Cheese") as a boxer turned gangster named "Tommy Garret". In 1976 he performed the role of Peron on the original concept album of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita alongside Julie Covington as Eva, Colm Wilkinson as Che and Barbara Dickson as the Mistress. His gold albums include one for Evita. In 1978 he released a single on the RSO label, orchestrated versions of the Sex Pistols' Pretty Vacant and the Ramones' Sheena is a Punk Rocker, both produced by Rice. Four years later he appeared as one of the guest vocalists on the British Electric Foundation's Music of Quality and Distinction, on a new version of There's a Ghost In My House.
In 1985, he became the host of the children's TV quiz Beat the Teacher, and stayed for the next series the following year. In 1990 he appeared in the children's series, Uncle Jack. In the meantime, he enjoyed a parallel career as presenter of radio programmes focusing mainly on rhythm and blues, notably a long-running weekly show on BBC Radio 2, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011.
He founded The Blues Band and is a member of the Manfreds, a group reuniting many[who?] original members of Manfred Mann,[1] and has also played harmonica as a session musician on recordings by artists including Gerry Rafferty, Dave Edmunds, Katie Melua, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Jackson and Marti Webb.
In 2001 Showcase appeared on Hallmark Records.
His most recent solo album is 2009's Starting All Over Again on Continental Record Services (aka CRS) in Europe and Collectors' Choice in the US.[1] It was produced by Carla Olson in Los Angeles and features Eric Clapton, Jake Andrews, Ernie Watts, Percy Sledge, Alvino Bennett, Tony Marsico, Michael Thompson, Tom Morgan Jr., Oren Waters and Luther Waters. The sequel "Suddenly I Like It" was recorded in Los Angeles, and will be released in early 2015. Among the guests: Joe Bonamassa and Jools Holland.
On 4 May 2009 Jones and his harmonica featured in a song during a concert by Joe Bonamassa in the Royal Albert Hall, London. That same month saw the single release of "I'm Your Kingpin" by Nick Vernier Band with Paul Jones on harmonica.[5] In 2010, Jones also featured on two versions of "You’re Wrong" from Nick Vernier Band's Sessions album. In 2012, he featured on a song "Solid Ground" on Oli Brown's album Here I Am.
Jones is currently the president of the National Harmonica League[6] and was awarded "harmonica player of the year" in the British blues awards of 2010 and 2011, as well as Blues Broadcaster of the year in 2011[7]
Personal life
Jones attended Portsmouth Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, although he did not graduate.
Jones was first married (1963-76) to novelist and reviewer Sheila MacLeod. There were two sons from the marriage, Matthew and Jacob. He is currently married to the former actress, and latterly Christian speaker, Fiona Hendley-Jones. He converted to Christianity in the mid 1980s as the result of being invited by Cliff Richard to a Luis Palau evangelistic event. Jones had appeared opposite Richard in the 1960s, on a television debate show where he had, at the time, opposed Richard's viewpoint. In December 2013 Jones was featured in BBC One's Songs of Praise, performing and talking with Aled Jones about his faith.[8]
Jones was pictured with his son, Matthew, for the front cover of the Radio Times in 1973 along with actor Jon Pertwee (then starring in Doctor Who) and broadcaster Michael Parkinson.
Paul
Jones Show - BBC Radio 2 with Joe Bonamassa
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