“remembering John Spence today, and always,” Stefani wrote ... to your inbox A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry ...

“John Spence literally grabbed [our friend], pulled ... and John getting out into the world,” Johnson says. “Within music, he was feeling the joy and maybe that was his escape, John ...

John Spence showed early entrepreneurial flair when ... A job as a tea boy for a music agency in London led him to begin representing bands such as the Eurythmics, Culture Club and Bananarama.

In 1986, Eric Stefani, his younger sister Gwen, and John Spence decided they would form a ska band while working at a Dairy Queen in Orange, California. Inspired by British ska bands like Madness ...