Jones, Mick (The Clash guitarist)

Jones was born in Wandsworth , London , England. His father is Welsh by birth, his mother is a Russian Jew. He spent most of his childhood with his maternal grandmother, Stella, in South London. Johns Cousin Grant Shapps , Conservative Member of Parliament at Wilwon Hatfield. Jones studied at Strand School, and then at an art school.

He gained recognition as a guitar player in the early 70s with his glam rock band, The Delinquents. After a while, he met Tony James and formed the proto-punk band London SS. By 1976, this group split up, and the rest of the members Jones, Paul Simonon and Kate Levin were looking for a new sound.

When Mick Jones was 21 years old, he and Paul Simonon were introduced by Bernie Rhodes to Joe Strummer (the self-proclaimed creator of punk rock), in the dirty Shepherd's Bush eatery. The formed group rehearses in an abandoned railway warehouse in the city of Camden , as a result of which the Clash group appeared. Jones played the guitar, sang and co-wrote songs until 1983. The exile in the fall of 1983, Jones from the group played a decisive role in the collapse of The Clash .

In 2003, The Clash with Jones, and the rest of the band, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

General Public

After leaving The Clash , Jones spent some time playing at General Public. Jones took part in the recording of their 1984 debut album “All the Rage”, in these songs “Tenderness”, “Where's the Line”, “Never You Done That”, “Hot You're Cool”, “As a Matter of Fact” ".

Big Audio Dynamite

Leaving behind General Public, in 1984, Jones created Big Audio Dynamite with Don Lits. This is Big Audio Dynamite's debut album was released in 1985, the songs "E = MC²" and "Medicine Show" were rotated in dance clubs in the UK.

To produce the second Big Audio Dynamite album, No. 10, Upping St. Jones teamed up with Joe Strummer. Together they wrote several songs for the album, including Beyond the Pale, V. Thirteen, and Sightsee MC. Their meeting did not last long, and after this collaboration, they did not work together for some time.

The cover for Big Audio Dynamite's third album, Tighten Up Vol. 88, "wrote The Clash's ex-bassist Paul Simonon. Soon after his release, Jones earned chickenpox as well as pneumonia and spent several months in the hospital. After recovering, Jones released another album with Big Audio Dynamite, "Megatop Phoenix", before rearranging the band and renaming the group to Big Audio Dynamite II and releasing the albums "Kool-Aid" and "The Globe".

In 1990, Jones participated in the recording of "Good Morning Britain" by "Aztec Camera".

In 1994, the group changed again and they released the album Higher Power under the short name Big Audio. In 1995, a collection of top hits, Planet BAD, as well as a studio album titled “F-Punk” according to the original Big Audio Dynamite. Another album, "Entering a New Ride", was recorded in 1997, but was released only on the Internet, due to disagreements with Radioactive Records, and then their record label. Another release, called Super Hits, was released in 1999.

Jones announced the reunion of Big Audio Dynamite in January 2011, and they performed at the 2011 Lollapalooza festival.

Carbon / Silicon

In 2002, Jones teamed up with his former London SS colleague, Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Tony James, to form a new band called Carbon / Silicon. The group toured in the United Kingdom and the United States and performed several anti-fascist concerts, they also recorded three albums: ATOM, Western Front and The Crackup Suite, which were available online for free. Their first CD release was The News EP.

In January and February 2008, Carbon / Silicon played a series of concerts at Inn On The Green. Just like Carbon / Silicon, there were many special guests, including performances by Paul Cook and Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), drummer of The Clash Topper, and multi-instrumentalist and former Mescalero musician Timon Doga.

Mick as a producer

In 1981, Jones released Ellen Foley's second album, The Spirit of St. Louis. " Jones co-wrote songs for the album with Strummer. The album featured musicians from The Blockheads and The Clash .

In 1981, Jones also produced the first Theater of Hate album, entitled "Westworld," released in 1982, written by Kirk Brandon. Jones also played guitar in the title track "Do You Believe In The Westworld." Jones also recorded and produced Aria of the Devil in 1982 at Wessex Studios, which was not released until 1998.

He created The Libertines in London with his 2002 debut album, Up The Bracket. Jones also produced the second and final album of The Libertines . He also prepared the debut album, Down In Albion, former Libertines guitarist and vocalist Pete Doherty for his new band, Babyshambles .

At the 2007 NME Shockwave Avards, Jones stepped onstage and performed "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" with Primal Scream.

Friendship with Richard Archer

Hard-Fi Richard Archer first met Mick Jones when he was with Contempo. Hard-Fi was looking for a producer when a member of the record company offered Jones what the band agreed to.

Archer worked for a year on the band’s first record, but it didn’t go as planned due to problems with the record company.

Jones said of Archer:

At the NME Awards at Koko Club on February 6, 2008, Jones appeared on stage with Hard-Fi and played The Clash in Should I Stay or Should I Go and Hard-Fi's Stars of CCTV.

Gorillaz

Jones and Simonon reunited in 2010 for Gorillaz's “Plastic Beach” album, on the title track “Plastic Beach”. Jones also performed live with Gorillaz in support of Plastic Beach, playing rhythm guitar along with Simonon. The band performed at the 2010 Coachella Festival, Glastonbury Festival Internacional and at Benicassim.

Mick Jones and Paul Simonon are currently working as executive producers of the new film based on The Clash's 1979 classic London Calling album.

The clash
1977 - The Clash
1978 - Give 'Em Enough Rope
1979 - London Calling
1980 - Sandinista!
1982 - Combat Rock

General public
1984 - All the Rage

Big audio dynamite
1985 - This is Big Audio Dynamite (Big Audio Dynamite)
1986 - No. 10, Upping St. (Big Audio Dynamite)
1988 - Tighten Up Vol. 88 (Big Audio Dynamite)
1989 - Megatop Phoenix (Big Audio Dynamite)
1990 - Kool-Aid (Big Audio Dynamite II)
1991 - The Globe (Big Audio Dynamite II)
1994 - Higher Power (Big Audio)
1995 - F-Punk (Big Audio Dynamite)
1997 - Entering a New Ride (Big Audio Dynamite)

Carbon / silicon
2006 - ATOM
2006 - Western Front
2007 - The Crackup Suite
2009 - The Carbon Bubble