Aussie rock legend and Jimmy and the Boys frontman, Ignatius Jones, dies

Ignatius Jones, the pb vocalist of 1970s daze stone set Jimmy and the Boys, has died aft a abbreviated illness.

Jones’ sister, TV presenter and jazz vocalist Monica Trapaga, announced his decease successful a connection connected societal media, saying Jones had died peacefully connected May 7 astatine his location successful the Philippines, wherever helium had retired with his hubby successful 2022. He was 67.

Ignatius Jones and his sister Monica Trapaga.Credit: Palani Mohan

“We are perfectly devastated by the passing of my brother, Juan Ignacio Trapaga, the formidable Ignatius Jones,” she said.

“His friends and household volition retrieve Iggy arsenic a bon-vivant, a lively raconteur and a existent Renaissance man, immensely and passionately knowledgeable successful past and the arts.

“The arts assemblage successful Australia has mislaid a champion, and meal parties volition present beryllium little interesting, with his passing.”

Jones was calved successful the Philippines successful 1957, and the household aboriginal moved to Wahroonga, wherever helium attended St Ignatius College successful the aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic erstwhile premier curate Tony Abbott.

With boundless creativity, Iggy, arsenic helium was professionally known, recovered occurrence arsenic the pb vocalist with Jimmy and the Boys. Their debut azygous was a screen of The Kinks’ I’m Not Like Everybody Else. They besides had specified hits arsenic They Won’t Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me, with Jones famously filmed successful a straightjacket.

He went connected to collaborate with his sister successful the plaything set Pardon Me Boys, past moved backstage into events production.

For six years helium directed the Sydney New Year’s Fireworks display, and the City of Sydney’s Millennium Celebrations. He was the creator manager of a conception of the Sydney Olympics opening ceremonial and the closing harbour spectacular.

He volition besides beryllium remembered arsenic the originative manager of the Vivid Festival from 2011 to 2019, and the creator manager of the Sydney Mardi Gras parade from 2011 to 2015.

Years of dancing – ballet and modern – and boisterous performances took a toll connected Jones’ body, and helium erstwhile told The Sydney Morning Herald helium had been near successful symptom from aggregate hairline fractures.

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