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This movie gave John Baldwin, the bassist for Led Zeppelin, his name.


When a manager of John Baldwin heard about a movie, this one, he told young Baldwin no longer to go by the name of Baldwin, but "John Paul Jones."

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Actually, it wasn't a manager of John Baldwin – a.k.a. John Paul Jones. It was Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones manager, who contacted him when he was doing some production in the mid-'60s. He convinced Baldwin (who was then a popular arranger) to take on a more artistic name. There was an American film starring Robert Stack, this one, around at that time titled John Paul Jones. Oldham suggested that.

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