Peter Jones (drummer)

Peter Robert Jones was an Englishborn, Australianbased musician. He replaced Paul Hester on drums for Crowded House in mid1994. After the band split up in June 1996, he played in deadstar with Caroline Kennedy and Nick Seymour, but did not return to Crowded House when they reformed in 2006 about a year after Hesters death. Jones worked as a secondary teacher in Melbourne and onMay 2012 he died from brain cancer, aged 49.

Peter Robert Jones was born onApril 1963 in Liverpool. His parents were Barrie and Joan Jones his siblings were Phil and Christine. The family arrived in Australia in 1966 and settled in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster. By the age ofyears Peter started learning to play drums as Phil was already playing guitar. For secondary education he attended Templestowe Technical College, which had a passionate music teacher and prepared him for a jazz course at Victorian College of the Arts in 1982. In 1983 Jones was the drummer for Vince Jones , the Australian jazz musician, and appears on the latters second album, Spell, which had appeared by November.

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