Rupert Holmes

In 2003 he published his first novel, Where the Truth Lies.. Details of George's singles and albums can be found at George Jones (http://www.georgejones.com/music/index.htm). Holmes later became the first and so far only person singlehandedly to receive Tony Awards for book, music and lyrics, for the 1986 Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In 1996 he created the television series Remember WENN for American Movie Classics. He spends up to 165 days a year on the road. Holmes previously had been in the band The Buoys, which produced the song Timothy about cannibalism. Despite the hard living, hard drinking past, George Jones continues to make albums and play to his loyal fans. 1 Hits of 1979. In his biography I lived to Tell It All, published in 1996, Jones sets out a chronicle of his life and his bad behaviour.

"Escape" was included on his fifth album, Partners in Crime, and reached the Hot 100 No. The pair were married in 1983 and they live outside the town of Franklin, Tennessee. That one song is so strongly associated with him that, in one interview (http://www.rupertholmes.com/writings/new_york_magazine.html), he reflected that his tombstone might well be a giant pineapple. It was his fourth (and present) wife, Nancy Sepulvado, whom Jones credits for rescuing him from the bottle. Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947 in Cheshire) is a composer and writer who is best known for the 1979 novelty hit "Escape" (later subtitled "The Piņa Colada Song") but has had a varied and distinguished career in several media. 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. His third wife, Tammy Wynette, was the passion of his life.

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.