Listen to Ronnie Jones performing ‘I Need Your Loving’ with the Nightimers here:

Ronnie Jones was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1937, but a career in the US Air Force brought him over to the UK in 1961. He was discovered by Alexis Korner, although Jones himself credits Georgie Fame with giving him his first taste of performing live, by allowing him to step up and sing with his band during an all-nighter at the Flamingo club. Joining Korner’s Blues Incorporated, Jones would share the mic with the likes of Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry and Mick Jagger. After leaving the military, Jones returned to London, where he formed first the Nightimers, with a line-up that included guitarist John McLaughlin, and then the Blue Jays, a band which toured Europe and performed at the Marquee. His next band, the Q-Set, broke up after a three-month tour of Italy, but Jones stayed on, winning a part in the seminal Sixties musical ‘Hair’. He settled in Italy, becoming a well-known club DJ and recording disco albums during the Eighties. However, he has returned to his roots with the recently released ‘Again’, which features Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, drummer Billy Cobham and saxophonist Bill Evans.