Jonathan Michael Chunn (born 8 June 1952 in London) is a former member of the New Zealand bands

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and Citizen Band. He performed alongside his brother

Geoff Chunn Geoff Chunn is a New Zealand musician, best known as an early member of Split Enz. Chunn was a teenage friend of Tim Finn. Together the two of them and Chunn's elder brother, Mike Chunn, founded the band Stillwater while at high school in the late ...

in both bands. His musical performing career was cut short due to

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. Chunn spent eleven years as Director of New Zealand operations for the

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(APRA), retiring from the role at the end of October 2003. He is currently CEO of Play It Strange Trust, which encourages children to try songwriting, and which he founded in April 2004. He has published several books, including the Split Enz biography ''Stranger Than Fiction''. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, Chunn was appointed an

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, for services to music. He was promoted to Companion of the same order in the

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, for services to music and mental health awareness. Chunn has been involved in numerous endeavours, including founding the ''Play it Strange'' Trust. In 2016, he was presented with a Scroll of Honour from the

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for services to New Zealand entertainment.

Books

* Chunn, Mike, ''Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz'', GP Publications, 1992. * Chunn, Mike, ''Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz'', (revised, ebook edition), Hurricane Press, 2013. * Chunn, Mike and Chunn, Jeremy, ''The Mechanics of Popular Music, A New Zealand Perspective'', GP Publications, 1995. * Chunn, Mike, ''Seven Voices – Tales of Madness & Mirth'', Purple Egg Press, 1997. * Chunn, Mike and Chunn, Jeremy, and Chunn, Barney, ''I'm with the Band'', Hurricane Press, 2011.

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