Jon Camp

Jon Camp (9 October 1949 — 13 December 2024) was an English musician. He was the bassist for Renaissance from 1972 to 1985. He, along with Chris Squire, have been quoted as pioneers of the Rickenbacker bass sound.

Early life Jon Camp, born in Winchmore Hill, London, went to Edmonton County Grammar School until he was eighteen. Camp's parents bought him his first guitar, a Selmer 555 acoustic guitar, for his tenth birthday. After leaving school his father, who worked in insurance, gave him three months to make a living as a musician or work in insurance. Camp left Renaissance in 1985.

For many years, Camp was the touring bassist for Roy Wood and played in a band with him called Helicopters. There he met keyboardist John Young and they formed the band Cathedrale with guitarist Brett Wilde, drummer Tony Bodene and vocalist Mark Goddard-Parker.

He joined forces with Maurice Douglas to form the duo Mojo, whose album was released in 2017.

Personal life and death Jon was close friends with Roy Wood, who is the godfather to Camp's daughters. A cause of death was not revealed but he did have Huntington's disease at the time of his death.

Discography Renaissance

Prologue (1972) Ashes Are Burning (1973) Turn of the Cards (1974) Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975) Novella (1977) A Song for All Seasons (1978) Azure d'Or (1979) Camera Camera (1981) Time-Line (1983)

Others

Annie in Wonderland — Annie Haslam (1977) Live Under Brazilian — Annie Haslam (1998) Things Are Getting Stranger on the Shore — Mordecai Smyth J2-B2 (Cathedrale) - recorded 1989-1991, released by Angel Air Records 2017 Urgent Delivery (Mojo) released by Repertoire Records 2017