Jonathan King

Jonathan King is the stage name of Kenneth George King (born December 6, 1944, London), a wealthy pop music impresario who in 2001 received a seven year prison sentence for four indecent assaults and two more serious sexual offences

Jonathan King is the stage name of Kenneth George King (born December 6, 1944, London), a wealthy pop music impresario who in 2001 received a seven year prison sentence for four indecent assaults and two more serious sexual offences on schoolboys aged 14 and 15. He was given parole on first application in March 2005 and was released, still proclaiming his absolute innocence of the convictions against him. He is currently awaiting an appeal hearing to quash all those convictions.

The child of an American father and an English mother, King was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he wrote and sang his first hit, Everyone's Gone To The Moon in 1965, eventually selling 4.5 million worth of records worldwide. Before graduating, he wrote and produced further hits such as It's Good News Week by Hedgehoppers Anonymous, also discovering, producing and naming Genesis, whose founding members were at Charterhouse.