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Mick Jones (born June 26, 1955) was in the music group The Clash and played guitar and sang, but was not generally the lead singer, who was Joe Strummer.
Jones generally wrote the tunes, Strummer the lyrics. He was briefly in the band General Public. He later formed the bands Big Audio Dynamite and Big Audio Dynamite II, in which he was the lead singer. After the dissolution of Big Audio Dynamite II, he formed another band, Carbon/Silicon. The band is currently touring the United Kingdom in a number of benefit concerts, but has yet to release an album of recordings or even enter a studio for the purpose of recording an album.
He has become an occasional producer, and in late 2002/early 2003 was at the controls for the debut of London band The Libertines (their first album being Up The Bracket), whose Clash influence (as well as that of other quintessentially English bands like the Kinks) was clear. The CD was critically well-received, and Jones appeared to enjoy the success of his proteges, and stayed on to produce their second album, eponymously named The Libertines.
This Mick Jones isn't related to the other Mick Jones who is the singer of of a classic rock band Foreigner.
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