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- In February 2024, Jones revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease years back, citing this as his reason for not touring with Foreigner since 2023.
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Jan 13, 2021 · Clash member Mick Jones got the boot in 1983 but would eventually reconcile with his bandmates before their induction into the Rock and Hall of Fame in 2003.
- Samantha Sanders
Sep 1, 2020 · Mick Jones’ departure on September 1st, 1983, signalled the beginning of the end for the band who would eventually call it a day for good three years later. The fire, would seem, had truly burned out in their bellies and it was time for the remaining members to move onto pastures new.
Feb 22, 2024 · Amidst Foreigner's extensive farewell tour, fronted by Kelly Hansen, Jones has been absent, with bassist Jeff Pilson filling in his role. However, Jones has made occasional appearances for select songs during the tour, joining the band for some of their classic hits.
- Tom Eames
Michael Geoffrey Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of punk rock band the Clash, until his dismissal by frontman Joe Strummer in 1983. In 1984, he formed Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts.
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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...
Jul 1, 2020 · Inevitably, Joe and Bernie soon fell out. Rhodes took the master tapes from the Munich sessions and disappeared. Boxed in by his new contract, Joe was powerless to stop him. He went so far as to track down Mick Jones in the Bahamas and beg him to rejoin The Clash, only to be rebuffed.
Sep 9, 2022 · Leeds United legend Mick Jones on his iconic meeting with the Queen after the 1972 FA Cup Final. The former Leeds striker, who was capped three times for his country, spoke about his memory of meeting the Queen in strange circumstances.
