Tony James on stage with Carbon/Silicon

Tony James (born on 12 April 1958) is a British musician, best known as a bassist of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 82 KB)From albums. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 82 KB)From albums. ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Generation X was a punk rock band that was formed in 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe. ... Sigue Sigue Sputnik are a British Cyberpunk band who achieved moderate fame in early 1986 with the song Love Missile F1-11, which appeared in the movie Ferris Buellers Day Off. ...

James was originally a member of the punk band London SS, along with Brian James, (later of The Damned), and Mick Jones plus Terry Chimes (both future members of The Clash). Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... London SS was Mick Jones and Paul Simonons band prior to joining up with Joe Strummer and Terry Chimes to form The Clash. ... Brian James is a British rock and roll guitarist who played in the pioneering punk band, The Damned, and later in The Lords of the New Church. ... The Damned are a rock band from the suburbs of London, England, formed in 1976. ... Mick Jones on stage with The Clash Michael Geoffrey Jones (born June 26, 1955), better known as Mick Jones, is an English guitarist and singer best known for his work with The Clash. ... Chimes on stage drumming with The Clash at the 100 Club Punk Festival Terry Chimes (also known as Tory Crimes) (born January 25, 1955 in London) was the original drummer of punk rock group The Clash. ... The Clash were an English rock group active from 1976 to 1986. ...

Later James would join Chelsea, a short-lived band that was the precursor for Generation X and included Billy Idol (then William Broad) on the guitar, John Towe on drums and Gene October on vocals. Soon they left October to form Generation X (named after a 1960s paperback novel, by Jane Deverson, not to be confused with the 1990s book by the same title by novelist Douglas Coupland), one of the more popular British punk bands of the late 1970's. Chelsea was an early punk band, formed in London in 1977. ... Generation X was a punk rock band that was formed in 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe. ... Billy Idol, 2003 Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad on 30 November 1955 in Middlesex, England) is an English hard rock musician. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... Gene October is an English punk rock musician and occasional actor. ... Generation X was a punk rock band that was formed in 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the late 1980s and shortly after the year 2000. ... Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a major Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist. ...

Tony James, after penning "Russian Roulette" for Stiv Bators and Lords of the New Church, and producing a Sex Gang Children album, formed glam punk band Sigue Sigue Sputnik with fashion designer cum singer Martin Degville in the 1980s as his grand follow-up to GenX. His "space bass" became the "sput style" trademark. Steven John Bator, known as Stiv Bators (October 22, 1949 - June 3, 1990) was an American rock and roll and punk rock singer and sometime guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio, best known for his bands The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church. ... Sigue Sigue Sputnik are a British Cyberpunk band who achieved moderate fame in early 1986 with the song Love Missile F1-11, which appeared in the movie Ferris Buellers Day Off. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

In 1990 he became a member of The Sisters of Mercy, and played bass on their Vision Thing album, and the band's following live tours. But James wasn't happy in this role and left the Sisters the following year. This article is about the year. ... The Sisters of Mercy are a rock band that emerged out of the British post punk scene in 1980-1981. ... Vision Thing, the third and last album by UK band The Sisters of Mercy was released in 1990 (1990 in music), on bands own label Merciful Release (under distribution contract with EastWest). ...

He still tours today, and has reformed Sigue Sigue Sputnik, crediting the internet for letting him see fans were still interested, and has teamed up with Mick Jones of The Clash to form Carbon/Silicon, now playing guitar. Sigue Sigue Sputnik are a British Cyberpunk band who achieved moderate fame in early 1986 with the song Love Missile F1-11, which appeared in the movie Ferris Buellers Day Off. ... Mick Jones on stage with The Clash Michael Geoffrey Jones (born June 26, 1955), better known as Mick Jones, is an English guitarist and singer best known for his work with The Clash. ... The Clash were an English rock group active from 1976 to 1986. ... Carbon/Silicon (left to right): William Blake, Danny The Red, Mick Jones and Tony James Carbon/Silicon is a rock band formed in 2004 by two punk rock legends: Mick Jones of The Clash and Tony James of Generation X. Similar in many respects to Jones earlier work in Big...

External links

• Carbon/Silicon official site
• Sigue Sigue Sputnik official site