He was frontman of one of the biggest bands of the 60s, whose Sha La Las and Do Wah Diddys won them screaming fans and No1 hits on both sides of the Atlantic.
With R&B group Manfred Mann, Paul Jones was a star of the beat boom and British Invasion alongside the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
But while Manfred Mann’s fame began to fade before the end of the decade, some of their contemporaries would go on to stratospheric levels of success... and Paul always had a particular reason to wonder about what could have been.