Paul Jones
Paul Jones was born in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom on February 24th, 1942 and is the Blues Singer. At the age of 82, Paul Jones biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Born Paul Pond, 22 February 1942, is an English singer, guitarist, harmonica player, radio presenter, and television host.
On BBC Radio 2, he hosted The Blues Show for thirty-two years.
Personal life
Jones attended The Portsmouth Grammar School and the Royal Naval School in Malta, then to the Edinburgh Academy for his last two years of instruction before winning an Open Exhibition in English to Jesus College, Oxford, although he did not graduate.
Jones was first married (1963-1976) to Sheila MacLeod, a novelist and researcher. Matthew and Jacob were two sons from the marriage. Fiona Hendley-Jones, a former actress and then Christian speaker, is now married to him. They met whilst both performing at the National Theatre. He converted to Christianity in the mid-1980s after being invited by Cliff Richard to a Luis Palau evangelistic festival. Jones was seen opposite Richard in a 1960s television debate, where he had, at the time, opposed Richard's point of view. Jones appeared on BBC One's Songs of Praise in December 2013, performing and discussing his faith with Aled Jones.
In 1973, Jones, along with actor Jon Pertwee (then starring in Doctor Who) and broadcaster Michael Parkinson were photographed on the front page of Radio Times with his son Matthew.
Career
Paul Jones was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, as Paul Pond. P.P. As "P.P. "Jagger" Jones played duets with Elmo Lewis (better known as the future founder of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones) at the Ealing Club, home of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, whose members included Long John Baldry and Mick Jagger. Keith Richards and Brian Jones had been enlisted by Keith Richards and Brian Jones to lead a band that was forming, but he turned them down. He went on to be the vocalist and harmonica player of Manfred Mann, the influential 1960s band. Before going solo in July 1966, Paul Jones had several Top Ten hits with Manfred Mann, including the international number one single "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (1964). He stayed with His Master's Voice.
He was less effective without the band than they were with his replacement, Mike d'Abo, but there were some hits with "High Time" (1966). 4), "I've Been a Bad Boy" (1967) (UK no. 4) (UK no. 5) and "Thinkin' Ain't for Me" (1967) (Thinkin' Ain't for Me). (32), before launching into acting. Although his solo career in the United Kingdom was modestly lucrative, he had no success in the United States. On EMI, he had enough hits in Sweden to have his greatest hits album released there. Columbia was on Columbia's next single appearance in Britain in the late 1960s.
Jones appeared in 1967 film Privilege directed by Peter Watkins, and in 1967, Jones appeared opposite model Jean Shrimpton. He was cast as a pop star in the film and performed the songs "I've Been a Bad Bad Boy" and "Free Me" by Patti Smith in the 1970s. He was the central figure in another cult classic, The Committee, directed by Peter Sykes in 1968, but Pink Floyd and Arthur Brown took over the musical duties.
Jones appeared on The Who and Small Faces in January 1968, and he was part of the "Big Show" package tour of Australia and New Zealand. Jones was sponsored by a new local band in each region. The tour is well-known for the clashes with conservative Australian media journalists. In addition, an in-flight incident on their last day in Australia resulted in the tour members being arrested by airport security and police before being carried onto a flight to New Zealand.
Jones appeared on Carla Bley's album Escalator Over the Hill in 1971. He recorded Crucifix in a Horseshoe with White Cloud, a New York-based session group that featured Teddy Wender on keyboards and Kenny Kosek on fiddle. He appeared in Demons of the Mind, a 1972 horror film.
In 1973, Jones appeared in ITC The Protectors as a host, playing a character named Caspar Parton.
Tommy Garret, a boxer-turned-highwayman, appeared in a television episode of The Sweeney ("Chalk and Cheese") in 1975 as Tommy Garret, a boxer-turned-highwayman. He appeared on Juan Peron on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's original concept album, as Che and Barbara Dickson as Mistresses. Jones had appeared in Covington's 1975 Christmas production Great Big Groovy Horse, a rock opera based on the Trojan Horse's tale told on BBC2. In 1977, it was later repeated on BBC1. In the mid-1980s, he also hosted Beat the Teacher, the BBC1 children's quiz. One of Evita's gold albums is included.
In October 1977, he appeared in Sir Francis Drake in the Connaught Theatre, Worthing, which featured music and lyrics by Lynne and Richard Riley, as well as a book by Simon Brett. Nicolas Young directed the production, which was later transferred to Shaftesbury Theatre in London for a limited season opening on December 7, 1977. President George Records released Dream Original London Cast Album in 1977 and Stage Door Records released it on CD in 2017.
He released a single on the RSO label in 1978, consisting of orchestrated interpretations of Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and the Ramones' "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," both produced by Rice. On a new version of "There's a Ghost in My House," four years later, he appeared as one of the guest vocalists on the British Electric Foundation's Music of Quality and Distinction.
He formed The Blues Band in 1979, a man of Manfred Mann's original members, a band that has reunited several original members of Manfred Mann, and has also performed as a session musician.
Jones took over the lead role of Sky Masterson from Ian Charleson in Richard Eyre's company in autumn 1982, when he first appeared at the Olivier Theatre in February. In Eyre's production of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay at the Cottesloe Theatre, he then led the same cast as Macheath.
After a first run of three shows in 1985, he began presenting a series on rhythm and blues for BBC Radio 2 on April 10, 1986, later known as The Blues Show, which became a fixture in the schedules for 32 years. On his show's Radio 2 jingle, he played the harmonica.
Fred/Petruchio with Nichola McAuliffe in the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed performance of Kiss Me Kate in 1987, and the Old Vic Theatre, London.
He appeared on BBC One from 1990 to 1993, and The Vixen also featured Fenella Fields as Jack's foe.
He started All Over Again on Continental Record Services (aka CRS) in Europe in 2009, and Collectors' Choice in the United States. Eric Clapton, Jake Andrews, Ernie Watts, Percy Sledge, Alvino Bennett, Michael Thompson, Thomas Morgan Jr., Oren Waters, and Luther Waters were among the film's many voices.
During a performance by Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall in London on May 4th, 2009 Jones and his harmonica were included in a song. On the debut of "I'm Your Kingpin" by Nick Vernier Band in the same month, Jones appeared on harmonica. He appeared on two versions of "You're Wrong" from Nick Vernier Band's Sessions album in 2010.
Suddenly I Like It, Carla Olson's album, was released in 2015. Joe Bonamassa and Jools Holland are among the special guests on this album.
Jones is now the president of the National Harmonica League, and he was named "harmonica star of the year" in the British Blues Awards of 2010, 2011 and 2012, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Cerys Matthews, the presenter of BBC Radio 2's Blues Show, will be replaced in mid-May. Eric Bibb, his last broadcast as host, appeared on "Mighty Long Time" (1951), which he described as "one of my few most favorite blues songs" (1951).