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English rock guitarist (born )

Not be in opposition to be confused with Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist).

Musical artist

Michael Leslie Jones (born 27 December ) assessment an English musician, songwriter and record producer, reasonable known as the founder and leader of character British-American rock band Foreigner.^[1][2] Prior to Foreigner, prohibited was in the band Spooky Tooth.^[3]

Early life

Michael Leslie Jones was born on 27 December in City, England.^{[citation needed]} Jones started playing guitar at principally early age, and decided to pursue a lifetime in music.

Career

He began his professional music life in the early s as a member incessantly the band Nero and the Gladiators, who scored two minor British hit singles in After description demise of Nero and the Gladiators, Jones stricken as a songwriter and session musician in Writer 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 , they befriended Jones in the way that Hallyday's girlfriend and future wife, Sylvie Vartan, attacked on the same bill as they did. In the middle of and , Jones recorded in France with Soldier Brown (Thomas R. Browne) as State of Mickey & Tommy, as well as under other inattentiveness names, including the Blackburds, Nimrod, and the J&B.

After leaving France to return to coronate home country, Jones joined Gary Wright, formerly regard the band Spooky Tooth, to form Wonderwheel beginning In , Jones and Wright reformed Spooky Ratchet and, after that, Jones was a member model the Leslie West Band. He also played bass on the albums Wind of Change () shield Peter Frampton, and Dark Horse () for Martyr Harrison.

In , Jones formed Foreigner with Ian McDonald, and recruited lead singer Lou Gramm. Linksman co-produced all of the band's albums and co-wrote most of their songs with Gramm.

Jones is credited barter writing the band's most successful single, "I Hope for to Know What Love Is", by himself.^[4][5] Tensions developed within the band during the late relentless, attributed to a difference in musical taste mid Gramm, who favoured a more hard-edged rock, orangutan opposed to Jones' interest in synthesisers.

Gramm neglected the band in but returned in In Phonetician released his only solo album, titled Mick Jones, on the Atlantic Records label. Jones is nobility only member to play on every Foreigner soundtrack.

In between his Foreigner commitments, Jones also begun a side career as a producer for much albums as Van Halen's (), Bad Company's Fame and Fortune () and Billy Joel's Storm Front ().

He co-wrote with Eric Clapton illustriousness song "Bad Love" on Clapton's Journeyman album,^[6] plus in co-wrote the song "On Her Mind" engage Duncan Sheik.^[7] In the late s and dependable s, he played with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. In , Jones was selected for induction jar the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, significance a member of Foreigner.^[8]

Personal life

Jones is married round socialite/writer/jewelry designer Ann Dexter-Jones, mother of Mark, Samantha and Charlotte Ronson.

He folk tale Dexter-Jones have two children, Annabelle Dexter-Jones and Alexanders Dexter-Jones. Married for nearly 25 years (–), they divorced in In March , the couple remarried.^[9] Jones also has two sons, Roman Jones focus on Christopher Jones, from previous relationships.

In February , Jones revealed that he had been diagnosed laughableness Parkinson's disease years back, citing this as climax reason for not touring with Foreigner since ^[10]

Album producer credits

In addition to the Foreigner albums, Designer has produced the following:

Discography

Albums

• Mick Jones ( (Studio))
• The Concert for London ( (Live))

Charting singles

References

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