Hole (band)

Although Love's flamboyant personality and controversial statements have often overshadowed the reception of Hole's music, it should be stressed that Hole's records all sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, and that their music releases (as well as the musicianship of the band members) have been critically praised. Details of George's singles and albums can be found at George Jones (http://www.georgejones.com/music/index.htm). Hole's band members have changed frequently over the years; the line-up of Hole's last album Celebrity Skin (1998) was Love (lead vocals), Melissa Auf der Maur (bass), Eric Erlandson (guitars), and Patty Schemel (drums). He spends up to 165 days a year on the road. After a number of releases on independent record labels, including their first full length album Pretty on the Inside which received praise from underground critics, Hole released their major label debut Live Through This (1994) very shortly after the suicide death of Love's husband Kurt Cobain. Despite the hard living, hard drinking past, George Jones continues to make albums and play to his loyal fans. Hole was a musical group, formed in 1989 and (officially) disbanded in 2002, fronted by Courtney Love and co-founded by Eric Erlandson. In his biography I lived to Tell It All, published in 1996, Jones sets out a chronicle of his life and his bad behaviour.

Celebrity Skin (1998). The pair were married in 1983 and they live outside the town of Franklin, Tennessee. My Body The Hand Grenade (1997). It was his fourth (and present) wife, Nancy Sepulvado, whom Jones credits for rescuing him from the bottle. Ask For It (1995). The pair were married in 1969 and performed a string of duets together but Tammy could not keep him off the booze and after a turbulent relationship the couple divorced in 1975. Live Through This (1994). His third wife, Tammy Wynette, was the passion of his life.

Pretty on the Inside (1991). During this period, he missed so many booked engagements that he was known as "No-Show" Jones. His self-destructive bent brought him close to death and from the height of fame in the '70s to the inside of a mental hospital in Alabama at the end of the decade. In the mid 1970s he added cocaine to whiskey. Jones' drinking was legendary and for a great part of his life he woke up to a Bloody Mary and spent the rest of the day drinking bourbon.

"Why Baby Why" was his first top-five hit in 1955. By age 24, he had been married twice, served in the Marines and developed his skills as a country musician and singer. He was born with a broken arm in Saratoga, Texas and grew up in the settlements north of Beaumont around the Big Thicket. George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931) nicknamed The Possum, is an American country singer.

Jones. For the United States Senator from Iowa named George Jones, see George W. ISBN 0-375-70082-x. In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998.