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Jan 17, 2024 · Today, Mick Jones is the only remaining member of the line-up that recorded Urgent, but the song remains a staple of Foreigner’s set. “It wasn’t our biggest hit,” says Jones, “but it’s one of my favourite songs. That whole period was hard, but it refocused us.”
- Dave Everley
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).
Oct 8, 2020 · Over budget, out of studio time, Mutt Lange and Mick Jones locking horns: so how did Foreigner 4 become the band's defining album?
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I was there for The Clash’s first Boston-area gig, at the long-defunct Harvard Square Theater in Cambridge. February, 1979. The Clash took the stage and exploded. To this date, I’ve never heard a better (and more apropos) opening salvo than “I’m So Bored With the USA.” Strummer wrote the song, he said, about how bored he was with American pop cultu...
New York punk rock had a pronounced Jewish presence; London punk rock, not so much, though certainly Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and The Clash’s manager Bernie Rhodes had considerable influence and political pull. Jones was born in London to a Welsh father, Tommy Jones, and a Russian Jewish mother, Renee Zegansky. His maternal grandmother S...
A friend of mine, George Binette, found himself the beneficiary of a happy coincidence on Nov. 15, 2002 — the last time Strummer and Jones shared a stage. A then-partner had tipped Binette off that Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros were playing a charity gig for the Fire Brigades Union. He’d lost track of Strummer’s post-Clash career after years of fan...
Apr 2, 2023 · The Welsh policeman who has faced down some of the most evil killers in Britain. Throughout his career Mick Jones, from Brynamman, was involved in more than 100 murder cases. He has sat...
Dec 13, 2019 · But as Simonon, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones and Topper Headon began the record, things weren't looking too rosy.
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MICK JONES. The architect behind Foreigner’s extraordinary catalogue of smash hits, Mick has crafted some of rock music’s most enduring songs and produced 10 multi-platinum albums.
