With personal turmoil put in perspective, Jones produced a new life and a new record. Then she pulled back, in a two-step away from the brink, consolidating and reconsidering her work. Confusion enveloped, and Jones seemed to lunge toward the flash point. An equivocal second album was followed by an enterprising third and diminishing commercial returns. But uncertainty and self-destruction crowded close. When Rickie Lee Jones broke onto the scene with her surprising and successful 1979 debut album, she seemed to signal a fresh trail for rock. 'A unique gift, a fresh voice, a knack for psychic immolation. 'Same old story,' writes Jay Cocks in Time. In the years since her smash debut album, Rickie Lee Jones, which contained her trademark hit single 'Chuck E.'s In Love,' Jones has endured the downside of success, the kick in the head fame saves for you after its first magical kiss, and arrived at the second, more lasting and valuable stage of rock stardom-that of the survivor. The story of Rickie Lee Jones is a classic rock 'n' roll fable, a story with a moral of its own that shows, in all of its extremes, the ups and downs of the rock life and the way that rock 'n' roll contains within itself the seeds of destruction and regeneration. Record company- Geffen Records, 9130 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. married Pascal Nabet-Meyer (a musician) children: Charlotte Rose.

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