Special guests on this album include Joe Bonamassa and Jools Holland In 2015, he released an album Suddenly I Like It, also produced by Carla Olson. In 2010 he featured on two versions of "You’re Wrong" from Nick Vernier Band's Sessions album. That same month Jones featured, playing harmonica, on the release of "I'm Your Kingpin" by Nick Vernier Band.
On Jones and his harmonica featured in a song during a concert by Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It was produced by Carla Olson in Los Angeles and features Eric Clapton, Jake Andrews, Ernie Watts, Percy Sledge, Alvino Bennett, Tony Marsico, Michael Thompson, Tom Morgan Jr., Oren Waters and Luther Waters. In 2009 he issued Starting All Over Again on Continental Record Services (aka CRS) in Europe and Collectors' Choice in the US. In 1979, he founded The Blues Band and is a member of the Manfreds, a group reuniting several original members of Manfred Mann, and has also played harmonica as a session musician. Four years later he appeared as one of the guest vocalists on the British Electric Foundation's Music of Quality and Distinction, on a new version of "There's a Ghost in My House". In 1978 he released a single on the RSO label, consisting of orchestrated versions of the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and the Ramones' "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", both produced by Rice. Jones had previously worked with Covington in the BBC's 1975 Christmas production Great Big Groovy Horse, a rock opera based on the story of the Trojan Horse shown on BBC2. In 1976 he performed the role of Juan 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 Tommy Garret, a boxer-turned-gangster. In 1971 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. Jones was cast as a pop singer in the film, and sang the songs "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" and "Set Me Free", which Patti Smith covered in the 1970s. His performance opposite model Jean Shrimpton in the 1967 film Privilege, directed by Peter Watkins, did not bring him stardom, although the film later became a cult classic. His subsequent single releases in Britain in the late 1960s were on Columbia Records. He had enough hits in Sweden to have a greatest hits album released there on EMI. While his solo career in the UK was mildly successful, he sold few records in the US. 5) and "Thinkin' Ain't for Me" (1967) (UK no. He was less successful without the band than they were with his replacement, Mike d'Abo, but did have a few hits, notably with "High Time" (1966) (UK no. Paul Jones had several Top Ten hits with Manfred Mann before going solo in July 1966. He 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. Jones" he performed duets with Elmo Lewis (better known as 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. And now Darren has stepped out from beyond the drumkit to record two cover versions, with Papernut Cambridge as his backing band – ‘I’ve Been A Bad Bad Boy’ by Paul Jones, and Big, Big Deal’ by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.Paul Jones was born as Paul Pond in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
In addition to his solo career, Darren has been moonlighting as the drummer in Papernut Cambridge, the sprawling pop collective led by former Death In Vegas guitarist Ian Buttonand pals, described by Mojo as “An escapist mix of 70’s glam, Nuggets-psych and 80’s indie, all balancing pop bliss and more sinister psychological depths”. His forthcoming album Thankful Villages is due out on Rivertones in June. His solo career has earned widespread critical acclaim with his many and varied projects including his Essex trilogy, his Lido album, and recently a project to set the poems of William Morris to music entitled Chants For Socialists. Influenced by punk through his art college years and then American lo-fi indie in the ’90s he fronted John Peel favourites Hefner. A top Paul Jones cover from Darren and Papernut Cambridgeįor 15 years, and over 14 albums, Darren Hayman has taken a singular and erratic route through England’s tired and broken underbelly.