Jon Symon (born 10 January 1941 as Simon John Hornsby in Epsom, United Kingdom; died 7 December 2015 on the Isle of Wight, England) was a British rock musician and composer who lived in Germany from the mid-1960s.

He became known to a wider audience in the early 1980s as the composer of the rock ballet Warlock, in which he was also the singer with the accompanying Deutschrock band, most of whose members were from Jane.

[4] During the same period, he also discovered his interest in space travel and astronautics, which led to him leaving college at 17 and working in a factory that made fuel tanks for rockets.

After the band had played together for just under a year, the army leadership wanted to disband the group, which led to Symon leaving his troupe without permission, returning to England to gain a musical foothold.

The concept album Warlock - Memories of a White Magician was created, featuring bassist Klaus-Peter Matziol, keyboardist Detlev Schmidtchen of Eloy, and violinist Hajo Hoffmann and Jim McGillivray of Epitaph as drummer.

Symon (lyrics and music) and Höfgen (choreography) jointly produced the rock ballet Warlock, which premiered in March 1983 at the sold-out Congress Centrum in Hanover.

[10][11] At all performances of Warlock the music was played live by the rock group Warlock, consisting of Symon (vocals), three members of the then disbanded German rock band Jane - Peter Panka (drums), Werner Nadolny (saxophone and synthesizer) and Charly Maucher (bass) - as well as guitarist Detlef Klamann (later with the reformed Jane).

[12] Among the guests of honour at the premiere were the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Ernst Albrecht, the Lord Mayor of Hanover Herbert Schmalstieg and the group Scorpions.

Originally intended for only 3 evenings of ballet, it ultimately remained in the repertoire of the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater (State Theatre of Lower Saxony) for two years, with all performances in Hanover being sold out.

In early 1988, an article appeared in the Hanover newspaper Neue Presse that the piece was complete,[15] Symon only needed a touring company (dancers and musicians) and a suitable choreographer.

The Minister President of Lower Saxony, Ernst Albrecht, had invited the entire ensemble on the occasion of this conference, where the work was presented once again in front of 36 European delegations.

At the reunion of The Demons, Symon agreed with Hardin and with electric bassist John Cross, who came from Standish near Liverpool, to collaborate on his new project Legends.

In November 2023, Explore Rights Management also released Jon Symon's Warlock - Anthology exclusively as a download version on all common streaming portals.

This compilation contains, among other titles two previously unreleased recordings (666, Night of the Demon), the B-side Robot Man of the 1981 single Lady Macbeth, which has not yet appeared on any album, demo outtakes of the not yet released Jon Symon original rock ballet Stonehenge (Posedian's Island, Some went to Africa, Tributes, Fire in the Sky) and two live recordings from 2007, which were previously only available on the DVD Tribute To Peter Panka by Jane (Angel of Death, Morgan Le Fay).