a b c " The House I Grew Up In with Steve Jones as participant". The House I Grew Up In. 15 September 2009. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Jones was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, to Lydia Anne and Thomas Gwilym Jones. His parents met as students at the University of Aberystwyth. Until he was about ten years old the family lived alternately at his paternal grandparents' house in New Quay, Ceredigion, and his maternal grandparents' house near Aberystwyth. Later the family moved to the Wirral, returning to Wales for their holidays. [7] Myself and my brother Jonathan and friend Chris went on a bike ride and Chris came off his bike and died. I was 19 at the time. Jones was the 1991 Reith Lecturer on BBC Radio, with a series entitled The Language of the Genes, the basis of his 1993 book of the same name. [20] Appearing on the BBC's The One Show on Tuesday (July 4), Steve told hosts Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas: "There's a grim connection between myself and my protagonist. When he was a kid he went on a bike ride with his younger brother and his brother came off the bike and died. The same thing happened to me when I was a kid.

Jones, Steve (2013). The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-4087-0285-7.He hates the whole idea of writing your own magazine or starting your own label. Counter to the punk esthetic, he was always a big fan of major label clout. a b c d e " Desert Island Discs with Steve Jones". Desert Island Discs. 1 March 1992. BBC. Radio 4. National Life Stories, 'Jones, Steve (1 of 6) National Life Stories Collection: Science and Religion', The British Library Board, 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2017

Formula 1 presenter Steve Jones has shared how he drew on painful memories of "the worst thing that's ever happened to me" for his new book. The Welsh star penned his debut novel, Call Time after years of "wasting" his time away from the circuit. Also, our working lives have changed through time, as we live in "a world filed with professions rather than trades." OK, OK, So i got a new perspective and liked more than one sentence. Steve Jones has come a long way since he first appeared on our screens in the early noughties. The 46-year-old presenter, who was born in Tylorstown in the Rhondda valley, spoke to WalesOnline’s podcast In the Spotlight ahead of the release of his debut novel Call Time. Steve thanked his work on Formula 1 for giving him the "gift" of time to work on the book. He said it was "one lonely hotel room after the next, one long haul flight after the next". Discussing the current season of Formula 1, Steve added: “I don’t care who wins the championship, I just want to watch wheel-to-wheel racing. It’s a bit of a shame that Red Bull are running away with it but Max Verstappen is an extraordinary driver. Sergio Perez is a brilliant driver but not an extraordinary driver, which is why he has no chance of beating Max this season - he decimated him in Miami.It can be harrowing, hilarious, and often touching, but above all, Lonely Boyis life-affirming. Thank you, Steve Jones. Sex-pistols.net Lonely Boy is often eye-wateringly funny … Jones is good at puncturing myth … His book’s a delight. Observer, 'Music Book of the Day' No need for me to outline how the Pistols hit the mainstream news and what happened post-Grundy as that's common knowledge or easy to find on the web. What I would highlight is how the Pistols' story is so well served from before and to formation and then from break-up by Steve's book. I’m sure that I am not alone in not knowing a whole lot about Steve Jones’ post Pistols period, aside from his playing in a band with two G N’R members and John Taylor from Duran Duran and the fact that he lives in LA and plays football with fellow ex-pats, I couldn’t have told you anything else and so I was intrigued to see what this biography would throw up. I had no idea of his chronic heroin, sex, alcohol and thieving addictions, nor of his 80s musical output which was interesting to read about.