Born January 3rd 1946, John Paul Jones became a prolific musical director and arranger of a huge range of prominent sixties artist before forming Led Zeppelin with Jimmy Page in 1968. Since 1980 his collaborators have included Paul McCartney, La Fura Dels Baus, Brian Eno, The Butthole Surfers and Diamanda Galas. His debut solo album Zooma was released in September 1999, followed by The Thunderthief in 2001.

He also produced and performed on the critically-acclaimed 2009 eponymous solo release by Sara Watkins and, as of this writing, is performing with Them Crooked Vultures, which also features Dave Grohl and Josh