Guitarist with Welsh group Man who emerged from psychedelic sixties
Micky Jones, guitarist with the Welsh prog-rock band Man, died on 10 March, 2010, aged 63.
The band began as folk-rock outfit The Bystanders in 1962, but as the decade progressed their style evolved with psychedelic influences.
They became Man in 1968 after recruiting new singer Deke Leonard, but the close harmonies of The Bystanders remained as a distinctive feature of their music.
Between ’68 and ’76 they released 14 albums, ending with the live recording All's Well That Ends Well. Despite vowing never to reform, they did exactly that in 1983 with a new live album, Friday 13th, and had been performing ever since.
Micky Jones was the only member of all of Man’s various line-ups and during the group’s interval he led the Micky Jones Band, Manipulator and The Flying Pigs.
After his death from a brain tumour at a care home in Swansea, tributes were led by Radio Wales presenter and former Bystanders collaborator Owen Money who said: “We came up together, we shared our life together.
“I know it was an inevitability, but words can’t express ...
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