Hooverphonic

The band launched into an extended European tour in September of 2003. The B-side was "Baja". In 2003 the band released a live album entitled Sit Down And Listen To Hooverphonic, featuring a selection of songs from the band's previous studio albums, as well as new recordings such as Antarctica and The Last Thing I Need Is You. John Paul Jones' first solo recording was a single for Pye Records in April 1964 which featured "A Foggy Day in Vietnam". The album went platinum in Belgium and won the group ZAMU's Best Pop/Rock Band and Best Album awards in 2002. Zooma, his debut solo album, was released in September 1999 and followed up in 2001 by Thunderthief which includes his debut as a solo vocalist. Jackie Cane retains the dreamy elements of Hooverphonic's previous works, most notably on songs "Nirvana Blue" and "Human Interest", but tracks like "The World Is Mine" (the first single) and "Day After Day" have a clear Broadway showtune quality to them. Jones set up his own recording studio called Sunday School as well being involved in his daughter's (Jacinda Jones) singing career.

Driven to the brink of insanity by the pressures of fame, Jackie quits show-business and returns home to attempt reconciliation, where her sister poisons her and then commits suicide. He recorded and toured with Diamanda Galás on her 1994 album, The Sporting Life (co-credited to John Paul Jones). Categorized by some as a "trip-hopera" (but referred to by the band as a "pop musical"), the album tells the fictional story of the title character, a lounge singer catapulted into stardom at the expense of her relationship with her twin sister. In 1986, Jones was asked by director Michael Winner to provide the soundtrack for the film, Scream for Help, with Jimmy Page appearing on two tracks. 2002 saw the group shifting gears again, this time releasing the concept album Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane. He appeared on a number of sessions and videos for Paul McCartney and was involved in the soundtrack of the film Give My Regards to Broad Street. On the heels of Tree's success, the band became the first Belgian outfit to headline Rock Werchter in 2001. King, The Mission, La Fura Dels Baus, Brian Eno, and The Butthole Surfers.

Highlights from the album are the string-laden "Out Of Sight" and "Mad About You". Since 1980 his collaborators have included R.E.M., Heart, Ben E. The band followed up Milk with 2000's The Magnificent Tree, which expounds on the sound of Milk but with a much darker tone. He has also played keyboards on many Roy Harper albums and contributed to Wings Back to the Egg Rockestra. The single "Club Montepulciano" was a minor college hit in the U.S., and "Renaissance Affair" was featured in commercials for the new Volkswagen Beetle. Jones was Madeline Bell's first choice to produce and arrange her 1974 album Comin' Atcha. A marked departure from their debut, the album is driven less by breakbeats and samples and more by organic string elements and traditional song structures. In 1969 he returned to the studio to play bass guitar on Family Dogg's Way of Life album, in 1970, keyboards for guitarist Peter Green on his solo album The End of the Game.

With Arnaert on vocals the band released Blue Wonder Power Milk in 1998. Jones' involvement with Led Zeppelin however did not halt his session work. Sadonius left Hooverphonic shortly after the release of A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular and was replaced by Geike Arnaert. "Royal Orleans" was the name of a hotel where the members of Led Zeppelin would stay when they visited New Orleans because not as many people asked for autographs there. The original members of the group were vocalist Liesje Sadonius, keyboardist Frank Duchêne, guitarist and programmer Alex Callier, and guitarist Raymond Geerts. The song is about a person who mistakenly takes a drag queen up to his hotel room, who then falls asleep with a joint of marijuana in hand, lighting the room on fire. The band achieved international recognition through the inclusion of the track "2Wicky" (from A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular) on the soundtrack to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 film Stealing Beauty (Io Ballo da Sola). It is rumored that the Led Zeppelin song "Royal Orleans", from their album (Presence) is about an experience Jones once had.

The band originally called themselves Hoover but later changed their name to Hooverphonic due to complaints by The Hoover Company as well as discovering that other groups were already using that name. Jones later claimed that everything he did was kept private, so no one would know about it. They quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be pigeonholed into one genre. While all members of Led Zeppelin had a reputation as party animals (a reputation Robert Plant later claimed was somewhat exaggerated), Jones was seen as the professional member of the group, as his excesses never hindered his performance, in contrast with Page and Bonham in Led Zeppelin's later years. Hooverphonic is a Belgian music group formed in the mid-1990s as a trip-hop outfit. His diversity for the group also extended to other instruments, which included unusual double and even triple necked mandolins. Sit Down And Listen To Hooverphonic (2003). On live performances, Jones' keyboard showpiece was "No Quarter", often lasting for up to half-an-hour and included snatches of "Amazing Grace" and variations of classical pieces by composers such as Rachmaninov.

Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (2002). His keyboard skills added an eclectic dimension that realised Led Zeppelin as more than just a heavy metal band, most notably on the delicate "The Rain Song" (Houses of the Holy) played on a Mellotron, the funky, danceable "Trampled Under Foot" (Physical Graffiti), and the eastern scales of "Kashmir" (also on Physical Graffiti). The Magnificent Tree (2000). After "retiring" his Fender Jazz bass in 1975, Jones switched to using custom designed Alembics. Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998). Jones was responsible for the classic bass lines of the group, notably the descending notes on "Dazed and Confused" (Led Zeppelin), the funk influenced riffs of "The Lemon Song" and "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Led Zeppelin II), and the power crunch of "Black Dog" (untitled fourth album). A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular (1996). Despite the spotlight being placed on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Jones' temperament, musicianship, and experience were crucial to creating the bedrock sound and success of Led Zeppelin.

His decision to leave session work and join a group was due to his desire to express his artistic creativity. A year later, as Chris Dreja had decided to leave Page's group and take up photography, Jones was Page's first choice for bass player in The New Yardbirds, later to become Led Zeppelin. Although the album did not fare well commercially, the session did result in Jones and Page discussing to work again in the future. It was during the sessions for Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man that Jones met Jimmy Page and the two would eventually link up again during the making of the Yardbirds Little Games album, with Jones contributing orchestral arrangements and playing cello on the opening track "Little Games".

Instead they chose John Rostill. Before these recordings, Cliff Richard and the Shadows nearly changed history, by nearly preventing the future formation of Led Zeppelin, when they had talks about Jones replacing their ex-bassist Brian "Licorice" Locking. Jones also got to record with fellow friends of Tony Meehan and Jet Harris, none other than Meehan and Harris' ex-band, Cliff Richard and the Shadows. His arranging and playing on Donovan's "Sunshine Superman", resulted in producer Mickie Most using his services as choice arranger for many of his own projects, with Tom Jones, Nico, Wayne Fontana, The Walker Brothers, and many others.

As well as recording sessions with Dusty Springfield, Jones also played bass for her Talk Of The Town series of performances. Between 1964 and 1968 he was much in demand arranging, playing keyboards or bass guitar for artists including The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, and numerous others. In 1964, Jones began session work with Decca Records on the recommendations of Tony Meehan. Jet and Tony had just been at Number 1 hit with "Diamonds" (a track which Jimmy Page was on).

His big break came in 1962 when he met Jet Harris and Tony Meehan (who had just left the Shadows) and played bass for their band for two years. He then played bass for jazz-rock London group, Jett Blacks. Jones joined his first band at 15, which was called The Deltas. Jones continued to use that Fender bass up until 1975.

The fluid playing of Chicago musician Phil Upchurch made him decide to take up the bass guitar. At the age of 14, he became choirmaster and organist at a local church and during that year, he also bought his first bass guitar, a Dallas solid body electric followed by a Fender Jazz bass. Jones was a student at Christ College boarding school in Kent where he formally studied music. His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Rachmaninov.

His mother was also in the music business which allowed the family to often perform together touring around England. Jones learned his keyboard skills from his father, Joe Baldwin, who was a pianist and arranger for big bands in the 40's and 50's, notably with the Ambrose Orchestra. The name John Paul Jones was suggested to him by a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, after seeing a movie poster with that name on it in France. Jones was born in Sidcup, Kent.

He can also play guitar, mandolin, koto, autoharp, ukulele, and organ, and played the over-dubbed bass recorder on Stairway to Heaven. John Paul Jones, pseudonym of John Baldwin, born January 3, 1946, was the bassist and keyboard player for Led Zeppelin until the band's breakup after the death of John Bonham in 1980. Thunderthief (2001). Zooma (1999).

The Sporting Life (1994), with Diamanda Galás. Scream for Help (1985) (soundtrack).