- Born
- Birth nameJeremy Cedric Spencer
- Nicknames
- Jonadab
- Jonathan
- Jeremy Spencer was born on July 4, 1948 in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK. He is a music artist and actor, known for Dance of the Dead (2008), Fear No Evil (1981) and Jackass: The Movie (2002). He is married to Dora. He was previously married to Fiona.
- SpousesFiona(1967 - ?) (divorced, 8 children)Fiona (divorced, 5 children)Dora(? - present)
- Jeremy met his first wife, Fiona, in 1966 when he was 18 and she was 14 years old. By the time they married in 1967, she had already given birth to two of the 8 children they would have together.
- Spencer joined the band, Fleetwood Mac, in 1967, and soon became an integral part of the group, excelling at the slide guitar, among other instruments. By 1971 he grew disillusioned with his life and while the band prepared for a gig in Los Angeles, Spencer disappeared, forcing the cancellation of a major concert. When he turned up some days later, it was learned that he had joined a religious group, some would call it a 'cult,' called the Children of God. He remains with the group even today (2014) although they have changed their name to The Family International and have attracted some unwanted attention due to many of their retired beliefs related to sex with minors and family members.
- Former guitarist with Fleetwood Mac.
- Has five children with his first wife Fiona (B. 11 August 1952). They are Dicon (B. June 1968), Heidi (B. November 1969), Koa (B. October, 1972), Nathaniel (B. April 1974) and Maresha (B. December 1976).
- Spencer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work as part of Fleetwood Mac.
- No, I don't have any regrets about leaving Fleetwood Mac. And I can say that in all honesty. Of course, one can look back at one's life in general and regret doing or not doing certain things but that's got nothing to do with regretting leaving F.M.
- I had - and still have to some extent - a silly streak and a penchant for liking to shock people, especially in those days with the staid British. It certainly wasn't all in good taste, and I'm not proud of a lot of those antics [Fleetwood Mac was banned from London's Marquee Club after Spencer appeared onstage wearing a giant phallus]. But we were a bunch of silly kids, really - boys in the band acting up. Nowadays that type of thing no longer shocks anyone; vulgarity is par for the course for supposedly controversial bands. You know, knighted punk stars cursing at a Royal Command performance.
- Except for Cream, I had no particular favourite band from the sixties, as I wasn't keen on much of the music that was going down, but I did like individual artists such as Tim Hardin, Neil Young and Judy Collins. At the time, despite social pressure and it being before my 'time', I was more a fifties music fan: blues, country music, doo-wop and rockabilly. Right or wrong, I believed that music had died with Buddy Holly!
- I believed in God and was searching the Bible and other spiritual books for the answers. I didn't understand it myself, really, why I was such an irreverent little so-and-so onstage and off, yet had those religious inclinations. I realized later that it was true what Jesus said, that the whole need not a physician, but those that are sick. I was just sick, period.
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