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Mick Jones

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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 British-American 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 Hallyday's 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 J&B.

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 co-produced all of the band's albums and co-wrote most of their songs with Gramm. Jones is credited with writing the band's 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 hard-edged 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 Halen's 5150 (1986), Bad Company's Fame and Fortune (1986) and Billy Joel's Storm Front (1989).

He co-wrote with Eric Clapton the song "Bad Love" on Clapton's Journeyman album, and in 2002 co-wrote the song "On Her Mind" with Duncan Sheik. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he played with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.

Jones is married to socialite/writer/jewelry designer Ann Dexter-Jones, mother of Mark, Samantha and Charlotte Ronson. He and Dexter-Jones have two children, Annabelle Dexter-Jones and Alexander Dexter-Jones. Married for nearly 25 years (1983-2007), 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 CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Michael Leslie Jones, dit Mick, né le 27 décembre 1944 à Portsmouth au Royaume-Uni est un musicien britannique. Il est connu comme guitariste, compositeur et producteur, il a été membre de Spooky Tooth et Foreigner.

Le guitariste Mick Jones commence sa carrière musicale début 1960, en tant que membre du groupe Nero and the Gladiators. Le groupe produit deux singles qui ont un succès britannique mineur en 1961.

Après la dissolution du groupe, Mick Jones, accompagné du batteur Tommy Brown, se rend en France. Engagés dans l'orchestre d'Eddie Vartan, à la même période, les deux musiciens collaborent également avec la sœur cadette de ce dernier, Sylvie Vartan.

Puis de 1965 à 1974, Mick Jones est le guitariste attitré de Johnny Hallyday. Il accompagne le rockeur français sur scène jusqu'en 1970 et collabore avec lui sur disque jusqu'en 1974. Il n'est pas uniquement instrumentiste pour Hallyday, mais aussi compositeur d'une trentaine de titres souvent écrits en collaboration avec le batteur Tommy Brown, avec qui il partage la tâche de chef d'orchestre au sein du groupe The Blackburds.

En 1971, le claviériste américain Gary Wright, anciennement du groupe Spooky Tooth, publie l'album Footprint avec Mick Jones ainsi que George Harrison, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Nanette Workman, etc.

En 1972, Jones est parmi les musiciens qui forment avec Gary Wright, le bassiste Archie Legget et le batteur Bryson Graham le groupe Gary Wright and the Wonderwheel. Ils enregistrent deux singles, soit I know et Ring of changes. Et même s'ils ont assez de matériel pour un album complet, il ne sortira qu'en 2016 sous le titre Ring of changes, avec George Harrison à la guitare slide sur une chanson, Goodbye Sunday. Wonderwheel est dissout en 1972.

Puis en 1973 Mick Jones et Gary Wright reforment Spooky Tooth, le temps de graver trois albums: You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw et Witness en 1973 puis The Mirror en 1974.

Après la dissolution du groupe, Mick Jones est guitariste sur l'album éponyme du Leslie West Band. Il joue également sur les albums Wind of Change (1972) de Peter Frampton, et Dark Horse (1974) de George Harrison.

En 1976, il forme Foreigner avec Ian McDonald, membre fondateur du premier King Crimson, et le chanteur de Black Sheep, Lou Gramm. Il produit pratiquement tous les albums du groupe et écrit la plupart de leurs chansons avec Lou Gramm. Des tensions se développent au sein du groupe durant les années 1980 avec, pour principale cause, les différences de goûts musicaux entre Lou Gramm, qui préférait un rock dur et tranchant et Mick Jones, plus porté vers les synthétiseurs. Lou Gramm quitte le groupe en 1989. Il y est remplacé par Johnny Edwards, sur l'album Unusual Heat, pour y revenir en 1991. ...

Source: Article "Mick Jones (musicien de Foreigner)" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Michael Leslie „Mick“ Jones ist ein britischer Gitarrist, Songschreiber und Musikproduzent, bekannt als Gründer und Frontmann der Rockband Foreigner, in der er bis heute Gitarre spielt.

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