Mick Jones (Foreigner guitarist)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mick Jones

• In the early 1960s, he started his professional music career by joining the band Nero and the Gladiators.

• Thereafter, he started working as a songwriter and session musician for musical artists such as Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, and Johnny Hallyday in France. Some of the songs that he had written for Johnny Hallyday were “À tout casser” (1968) and “Je suis né dans la rue” (1969).

• He recorded with Tommy Brown, a member of the Nero and the Gladiators under session names State of Mickey & Tommy, Nimrod, and the J&B between 1965 and 1971.

• After leaving France, he returned to England and in 1971, joined the musician Gary Wright to form the band Wonderwheel.

• He reformed the band Spooky Tooth with Gary Wright in 1972.

• Later, he joined the Leslie West Band as a member.

• Some of the music albums in which he played guitar are Wind of Change (1972) and Dark Horse (1974).
  

• Jones formed the band Foreigner with Ian McDonald and Lou Gramm as lead singer in 1976.

• He released his solo album titled Mick Jones in 1989.

  

• Some of the music albums in which he worked as a producer are Bad Company’s Fame and Fortune (1986), Billy Joel’s Storm Front (1989), and Tina Arena’s In Deep (1997).
  

• He played with Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

• In 2024, he was inducted as a member of the band Foreigner in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• In 2024, he revealed in an interview that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease due to which he was not able to perform with his band Foreigner since 2023.

• He is an avid lover of dogs.