As the frontman of Killing Joke, Jaz Coleman is one of music’s most entertaining and dynamic figures. He is all things to all people: a wide-eyed post-punk maverick, an art-metal visionary, a mystic warrior (and also, outside of Killing Joke, a classical composer, actor and shaman). In an interview with Metal Hammer in 2006, he looked back to his younger days growing up in Cheltenham, and revealed that some of his earliest memories were Rolling Stones guitarist and founder Brian Jones visiting the family home.
“I met Brian Jones at a very early age,” Coleman said. “I remember him lifting me up and putting me on top of a fruit machine. He asked me, ‘Do you believe in Christmas?’ I said, ‘No’. He asked me, ‘Do you believe in magic?’ I said, ‘No,’ and he said, ‘You will do one day’. I’ll carry that with me for life.”
