In the meantime, he enjoyed a parallel career as presenter of radio programmes focusing mainly on rhythm and blues, notably a long-running weekly show on BBC Radio 2, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011. It was not until the 1990s that Jones became a familiar face on television in the children's series, Uncle Jack. In 1976 he performed the role of Peron on the original concept album of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita alongside Julie Covington as Eva, Colm Wilkinson as Che and Barbara Dickson as the Mistress. In 1975 he guest starred in a TV episode of The Sweeney (Chalk & Cheese) as a boxer turned gangster, Tommy Garret. In 1973 he played the title role in Bob Fosse's production of Pippin at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. In 1972 Jones recorded Crucifix in a Horseshoe with White Cloud, a New York based session group featuring Teddy Wender on keyboards and Kenny Kosek on fiddle. He has worked with directors such as Sir Richard Eyre, Peter Gill and Toby Robertson. His performance opposite model Jean Shrimpton in the 1967 film Privilege, directed by Peter Watkins, did not bring the hoped-for stardom, although the film later became a cult classic.Privilege, which unsurprisingly cast Jones as a pop singer, saw him sing a few songs, including 'I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy' and 'Set Me Free', which was covered by Patti Smith in the mid 1970s.įrom 1966 he also worked as an actor, first in films and television, and then on stage, including West End shows such as Conduct Unbecoming (also on Broadway), plus the musicals Cats and Pump Boys and Dinettes. He did have enough hits in Sweden however to have a greatest hits album released there on EMI. While his solo recording career was barely successful in the UK, it never got off the ground in the US. He was less successful without the band than they were with his replacement, but did have a few hits, notably with 'High Time' (1966) and 'I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy' and 'Thinkin' Ain't for Me' (both 1967) before attempting to branch into acting.

He had several Top Ten hits with Manfred Mann before going solo in July 1966. Jones then went on to be the vocalist and harmonica player of the successful 1960s group Manfred Mann. He was asked by Keith Richards and Brian Jones to be the lead singer of a group they were forming, but he turned them down. Pond', he performed duets with Elmo Lewis (aka future founder member of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones) at the Ealing Club, home of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, whose singers included Long John Baldry and Mick Jagger. Paul Jones was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player and radio personality and television presenter.

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