Jake Burns

Jake Burns (born John Burns, 21 February 1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers. Burns started off his career at school with a rock covers band, Highway Star, which consisted of Burns, Gordon Blair, Henry Cluney, and Brian Faloon. Gordon Blair subsequently left the group to join Rudi, and Ali McMordie joined, about the time the band discovered punk. They were briefly n... More

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  • Feb 21, 1958 (age 54 years)

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  • Burns, Jake

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  • 1977
  • 1982
  • 1987
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