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What Is John Paul Jones' Net Worth?

John Paul Jones is an English musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer who has a net worth of $120 million. John Paul Jones is best known as the bass player and keyboardist for the band Led Zeppelin, which has sold more than 200 million records. Jones performed on the Led Zeppelin albums "Led Zeppelin" (1969), "Led Zeppelin II" (1969), "Led Zeppelin III" (1970), "Led Zeppelin IV" (1971), "Houses of the Holy" (1973), "Physical Graffiti" (1975), "Presence" (1976), and "In Through the Out Door" (1979), and he has released the albums "The Sporting Life" (with Diamanda Galás, 1994), "Zooma" (1999), and "The Thunderthief" (2001). John has also done session and production work for numerous artists, such as the Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, and Heart, and he composed the score for the 1984 horror film "Scream for Help." Led Zeppelin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and in 2000, readers of "Guitar" magazine ranked Jones #3 in the publication's "Bassist of the Millennium" poll.

Early Life

John Paul Jones was born John Richard Baldwin on January 3, 1946, in Sidcup, Kent, England. Both of John's parents were in the music business, and they toured the country with their vaudeville comedy act. Jones' mother was a singer, and his father, Joe Baldwin, played piano and arranged music for big bands in the '40s and '50s. John began playing piano when he was 6 years old, and due to his parents' touring, he was sent to boarding school as a child. He studied music at Christ's College, Blackheath, London, and when he was 14, he became a church organist and choirmaster and purchased his first bass guitar. Jones later bought a 1962 Fender Jazz Bass, and he used it until 1976.

Early Career

At age 15, John joined the band The Deltas, then he played bass for Jett Blacks, a jazz-rock group. In 1962, Tony Meehan and Jet Harris of the Shadows hired Jones to play with the band for two years, and in 1964, he started doing studio session work with the London-based record label Decca Records. At Decca, he worked with artists such as the Rolling Stones,Shirley Bassey,Jeff Beck,Rod Stewart, Herman's Hermits, Dusty Springfield, and Donovan. During this time, he began using the name "John Paul Jones," and he released his debut solo single, "Baja" / "A Foggy Day in Vietnam" in April 1964.

By 1968, he began feeling burnout due to his heavy workload as a session musician, and he has said of that time in his life, "I was arranging 50 or 60 things a month and it was starting to kill me."

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