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
John Berry (arts administrator) first production was the Opera Greek by Mark-Anthony Turnage. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival on the 5 - 6 August 2017. A co-production between Scottish Opera and Opera Ventures, it was directed the Young Vic Artistic Associate Joe Hill-Gibbons and was vastly acclaimed. John Berry and Anthony Lilley OBE, have launched a commercial theatre production company. Scenario 2 will concentrate on developing new work for the West End stage. Berry is married to the mezzo-soprano Pippa Dames-Longworth. He was made a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2014, for Services to Music. John Berry (arts administrator) John