Born Jack Stafford. Grew up in the Kentish suburb of South East London known as Catford. Raised single-handedly by his Anglo-German mother. Jak was very good friends with the glam rock band Japan, but Jak sacrificed his glam looks and locks to join X-RAY SPEX. Jak called his flying V guitar 'Candy Darling' after a character in an Andy Warhol movie. Jak gave a very unique sound to X-RAY SPEX with great riffs that Poly loved. The beginning riff of THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED DAY-GLO is a Jak Airport classic. When X-RAY SPEX split, Jak formed AIRPORT AND DEAN, he recorded songs BLONDE DARLING and FLYING, co-written and performed with Paul Dean. The music press thought Jak Airport was somewhat unusual for a punk rock guitarist, as when interviewed he revealed, that hismusical tastes included DEBUSSY and KRAFTWERK. Poly often told him of her love of WAGNER, which influenced his choice of power chords in Spex, which led X-RAY SPEX to being, described as Power Pop by CHAS DE WHALLY from the British music paper SOUNDS in October 1977. They were in fact, one of the first Punky New Wave bands. Sadly Jak is no longer on planet earth. Jak Airport left his body and this mortal world in 2004.