With boundless creativity, Iggy, as he was professionally known, found success as the lead singer with Jimmy and the Boys. Their debut single was a cover of The Kinks’ I’m Not Like Everybody Else. They also had such hits as They Won’t Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me, with Jones famously filmed in a straitjacket.

He went on to collaborate with his sister in the swing band Pardon Me Boys, then moved backstage into events production.

For six years he directed the Sydney New Year’s fireworks display, and the City of Sydney’s Millennium celebrations. He was the artistic director of a segment of the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony and the closing harbour spectacular.

He will also be remembered as the creative director of the Vivid Festival from 2011 to 2019, and the artistic director of the Sydney Mardi Gras parade from 2011 to 2015.

Years of dancing – ballet and contemporary – and boisterous performances took a toll on Jones’ body, and he once told The Sydney Morning Herald he had been left in pain from multiple hairline fractures and joint wear and tear.