Jon Moss

Jon Moss (left) with Bob Weston

Jonathan Aubrey Moss (born September 11, 1957 in London , England) is a British drummer and member of the pop group Culture Club .

Career

At school he showed a strong inclination to exercise. He was particularly interested in boxing.

After school, he first worked as a tape operator in Marquee Studios. Then he learned to play the drums, and despite a lot of academic skills, his desire to become a musician only grew over time. After giving up the job as a tape operator, he kept himself afloat with odd jobs. Then he began training as a printer and later became a truck driver. Ultimately, he made it as an assistant in a music agency and eventually got a job in that field.

The first band he worked in was Phone Bone Boulevard, followed by groups like Pastrami Barmy and Eskimo Norbert, before he became a drummer for The Clash . Since he could not adapt to this band, he left it again and became a member of The Damned , in which Captain Sensible was before his solo career. After a car accident in 1977, he split from The Damned. Jon later performed with The Edge and then with Adam and the Ants .

The last thing he came across was Boy George , who was looking for a drummer for his group, then called Sex Gang Children. Jon Moss, the also newcomers Roy Hay , Mikey Craig and Boy George called themselves Culture Club in the early 1980s. During the time of Culture Club, Jon Moss had an undisclosed, but also unpublished, relationship with Boy George. When this began to crumble, however, and Moss broke up with George, Boy George became a drug addict and the band broke up. Moss married and had three children, and has been divorced since 2010.

In the period between this dissolution and the less successful reunion in 1998, next to nothing was heard from Jon Moss.

In 2006 he was with Mikey Craig, Roy Hay and Sam Butcher as the new singer under the name Culture Club Reborn on a small tour through England. He has been touring again with Culture Club since 2014.

Literature and evidence

• Maria David: Boy George and Culture Club . Color Library Books, London 1984, ISBN 0-86283-189-X
• Kasper de Graaf, Malcolm Garret: When Cameras go crazy: Culture Club . Virgin, London 1983, ISBN 0-907080-85-5
• Dave Rimmer: Like Punk Never Happened . faber and faber, London 1985, ISBN 0-571-13739-3