Happy Birthday Mick Jones (The Clash)
Best known as one of the leader's of one of the greatest punk rock bands of all time, The Clash, singer/guitarist/songwriter Mick Jones was one of the more musically adventurous musicians of the genre, especially evident in his post-Clash outfit, the alt-dance outfit Big Audio Dynamite. Born Micheal Geoffrey Jones on June 26, 1955, in South London, Jones was raised by his grandmother, and as a teenager, picked up the guitar after being inspired by such proto-punk outfits as MC5 and the New York Dolls. It wasn't long before Jones began playing in local bands, including such forgotten outfits a the Delinquents, Little Queenies, and London S.S., and while none of these bands amounted to much, it was through his tenure with London S.S. that Jones befriended bassist Paul Simonon. The union of Jones and Simonon led to the eventual formation of the Clash in 1976, with another guitarist/singer, Joe Strummer (in addition to a revolving door of drummers).
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