Mick Jones & Ellen Foley

Ellen Foley and Mick Jones
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Mick Jones and Ellen Foley dated from 1980 to 1982.

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Mick Jones is a 68 year old English Musician. Born Michael Geoffrey Jones on 26th June, 1955 in South London, he is famous for the Clash. His zodiac sign is Cancer.

Ellen Foley is a 72 year old American Actress. Born on 5th June, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, she is famous for Fatal Attraction. Her zodiac sign is Gemini.

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StatusDurationLength
Dating1980 - 1982 2 years
Total 1980 - 1982 2 years


Ellen met Mick Jones in 1980 at "The Venue" in London a couple of days before her own gig, and became a part of the Clash entourage for almost two years. She wouldn`t tour with the Clash, but she appeared with them in Martin Scorsese`s film The King Of Comedy (1981...but not released until 1983)) where Joe,Mick and Paul appear as street scum to mock Sandra Bernhard in a scene with Robert De Niro.
According to the final credits of the film, the "Street Scum" include, Ellen Foley, Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Kosmo Vinyl, Jerry Baxter-Worman, Don Letts ("The Clash " and friends from their album "Sandanista!") and Pearl Harbour (who was Paul Simonon`s girlfriend and is also a singer) and Gaby Salter (who was to become Joe`s first wife).
Ellen Said : "He was there (at "The Venue"), so I started to talk to him. Then I had to go away, and he came to America just as I was leaving for Japan and Australia, so I didn`t see him for about a month. I really liked him instantaneously. I saw a unique person from another country, someone with a whole new set of ideas, from the way he looked to the way he thought. The whole style that he had was really attractive to me." Mick Jones caused a radical change in Ellen`s life. They spent a lot of time together, Ellen said: "I saw the real Jamaica, and spent a lot of time in England and was exposed to ideas and attitudes I`d never known. We decided to record an album together." They called the album The Spirit Of St. Louis, and recording evolved round the same time of the final Sandinista! sessions (the new Clash album on which Ellen contributed both lead and back-up vocals on Hitsville and later on the Combat Rock
track Car Jamming), in the summer of 1980. Sandinista! was released in December 1980 (March 1981 in US), and it was followed by Hitsville UK, a single with a duet vocal from Ellen and Mick. The same duet vocal were utilised on several tracks on Ellen`s album, which Mick Jones produced in North London`s Wessex Studios (which were under siege earlier that year from recordings which fostered the completed Sandinista!, a Pearl Harbour album, several Mickey Dread cuts and Ellen`s album. Clash personnel were involved in them all). Spirit of St. Louis credits as backing players all four members of The Clash, as well as several of Ian Dury`s Blockheads and Tymon Dogg. Dogg in fact also wrote three of the songs on the album, while Joe Strummer and Mick Jones collaborated on another half a dozen; Ellen only contributed one of her own songs, Phases of Travel- it was almost a Clash album, in everything but Ellen`s singing and the fact that she was the featured artist.
(The production is credited to "my boyfriend," who happened to be Mick Jones at the time)
Ellen Said: "Mick and I had a few ideas for songs. We were in New York but wanted to do them in England.We went to England to record the album; the record company thought we did demos. When we`d finished they needed a lot of convincing. Mick had ideas for the music and Joe would miraculously appear with these lyrics. From not a lot of conversation he was able to write the songs for me and he wrote lyrics he wouldn`t normally sing himself."

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1980 - Hookup

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Name
Mick Jones
Ellen Foley
Mick Jones
Ellen Foley
Age (at start of relationship)
24
28
Height
Male
5' 11½" (182 cm)
Female
5' 8" (173 cm)
Zodiac
Cancer
Gemini
Occupation
Musician
Actress
Hair Color
Bald
Blonde
Nationality
English
American

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