Jones had previously worked with Covington in the 1975 Christmas production Great Big Groovy Horse, a rock opera based on the story of the Trojan Horse shown on BBC2. In 1976 he performed the role of Juan Peron on the original concept album of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita alongside Julie Covington as Eva, Colm Wilkinson as Che and Barbara Dickson as the Mistress. In 1975 he guest-starred in a TV episode of The Sweeney ("Chalk and Cheese") as Tommy Garret, a boxer-turned- highwayman. In 1973 Jones guest appeared in ITC The Protectors, in an episode called "Goodbye George", playing a character called Caspar Parton. He acted in the 1972 horror film Demons of the Mind. On the same year he recorded Crucifix in a Horseshoe with White Cloud, a New York-based session group featuring Teddy Wender on keyboards and Kenny Kosek on fiddle. In 1971 Jones participated in Carla Bley's album Escalator Over the Hill. Jones was cast as a pop singer in the film, and sang the songs "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" and "Set Me Free", which Patti Smith covered in the 1970s. His performance opposite model Jean Shrimpton in the 1967 film Privilege, directed by Peter Watkins, did not bring him stardom, although the film later became a cult classic. His subsequent single releases in Britain in the late 1960s were on Columbia. He had enough hits in Sweden to have a greatest hits album released there on EMI. While his solo career in the UK was mildly successful, he sold few records in the United States. 5) and "Thinkin' Ain't for Me" (1967) (UK no. He was less successful without the band than they were with his replacement, Mike d'Abo, but did have a few hits, notably with "High Time" (1966) (UK no. Paul Jones had several Top Ten hits with Manfred Mann, including the international number one single " Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (1964), before going solo in July 1966. He went on to be the vocalist and harmonica player of the successful 1960s group Manfred Mann. He was asked by Keith Richards and Brian Jones to be the lead singer of a group they were forming, but he turned them down. Jones" he performed duets with Elmo Lewis (better known as future founder member of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones) at the Ealing Club, home of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, whose singers included Long John Baldry and Mick Jagger. Paul Jones was born as Paul Pond in Portsmouth, Hampshire. JSTOR ( December 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.įind sources: "Paul Jones" singer – news
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