Nancy Carol Lewis Jones Dies: Monty Python Manager, Publicist For Jimi Hendrix & The Who Was 76

Nancy Carol Lewis Jones, a publicist for groundbreaking classic rock acts The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker before becoming Monty Python’s American manager during the group&#…

, died December 20, 2019 in New York City after a short illness.Raised in Detroit by a religiously strict father – he burned her record collection after she sneaked out of the house to watch Elvis Presley’s Ed Sullivan appearance on a friend’s television – Jones became enamored of the British Invasion music scene after reviewing The Dave Clark Five for her college newspaper.

In addition to The Who, Jones promoted Jimi Hendrix, Marsha Hunt, Thunderclap Newman, and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown before moving to New York in 1967 to set up an American office for The Who. She coordinated the group’s first U.S. Tour.

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