What does Mick Jones do now?
Michael Leslie Jones is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the last remaining original member of the British-American rock band Foreigner. Prior to Foreigner, he was in the band Spooky Tooth. He began his professional music career in the early 1960s as a member of the band Nero and the…
Michael Leslie Jones is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the last remaining original member of the British-American rock band Foreigner. Prior to Foreigner, he was in the band Spooky Tooth.
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,
What does Mick Jones do now?
In a documentary film about the Clash recorded before Joe Strummer passed away in 2002, Strummer described a tortured working relationship with Mick Jones before the breakup, saying of that time that “when did show up, it was like Elizabeth Taylor in a filthy mood.
Since then, Jones has continued to play music and even collaborated with old bandmate Simonon on the Gorillaz’ 2010 release, Plastic Beach. More recently, Jones worked with Flaming Lips in 2019. These days, he’s still in London, but not playing seedy punk clubs so much. Jones lives with his wife and daughter in London’s tony Notting Hill neighborhood.
