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Wizz Jones obituary
Guitarist, singer and songwriter who performed with John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Ralph McTell When Bruce Springsteen played the Berlin Olympiastadion in May 2012, he began with a powerful song about an East Berliner celebrating freedom. Few, if any, in the crowd would have realised that the original version of When I Leave Berlin was written in 1971 by an English guitarist and singer-songwriter, whom Springsteen failed to mention.Wizz Jones, who has died aged 86, never did enjoy the success of many of his contemporaries, but was a folk scene hero with a dedicated following, particularly among other musicians. In his 2010 autobiography, Life, Keith Richards describes meeting Wizz while he was at art college, before joining the Rolling Stones: “Wizz Jones used to drop in, with a Jesus haircut and a beard. Great folk picker, great guitar picker … I think I learned Cocaine from him – the song and that crucial fingerpicking lick of the period, not the dope …” Continue reading...
Guitarist, singer and songwriter who performed with John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Ralph McTell
When Bruce Springsteen played the Berlin Olympiastadion in May 2012, he began with a powerful song about an East Berliner celebrating freedom. Few, if any, in the crowd would have realised that the original version of When I Leave Berlin was written in 1971 by an English guitarist and singer-songwriter, whom Springsteen failed to mention.
Wizz Jones, who has died aged 86, never did enjoy the success of many of his contemporaries, but was a folk scene hero with a dedicated following, particularly among other musicians. In his 2010 autobiography, Life, Keith Richards describes meeting Wizz while he was at art college, before joining the Rolling Stones: “Wizz Jones used to drop in, with a Jesus haircut and a beard. Great folk picker, great guitar picker … I think I learned Cocaine from him – the song and that crucial fingerpicking lick of the period, not the dope …” Continue reading...
