Born Raymond Ronald Jones in 1939, Wizz began his musical career in 1958, leading a Country and Skiffle band in his home town of Croydon. Inspired by Big Bill Broonzy, Rambling Jack Elliot, Alexis Korner and Ewan MacColl, Wizz learnt his craft in the coffee bars around London’s Soho from the likes of Davy Graham and Long John Baldry.
