John Paul Jones (musician) Foo Fighters on the Grammy Awards conducting the orchestral part to the song "The Pretender". On 7 June 2008, Jones and Jimmy Page appeared with the Foo Fighters to close out the band's concert at Wembley Stadium. Jones performed with Sonic Youth and Takehisa Kosugi, providing the stage music for Merce Cunningham's "Nearly 90", which ran 16–19 April 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In February and March 2011 he appeared in the onstage band in Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera "Anna Nicole", about the "Playboy" model Anna Nicole Smith, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. In August
The Playboy book as presenting how Brown's "Playboy" obsession affects his ability to relate to women. Sullivan called "The Playboy" stories "[t]he most honest sex in comics" of the early 1990s, "and the most damning exposé of pornography" as it deals "with nothing more than Brown's relationship with "Playboy"". He praises how quickly Brown matured as a storyteller over the course of "The Playboy", and for the believability of scenes which may or may not have happened as Brown depicted them. While seeming to acknowledge feminist concerns, Brown depicts himself as "a victim of his urges", and that ""Playboy" has kept him