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♪ Step into the atmosphere ♪
♪ Looking as the sun grows near and I ♪
♪ Start to fade away ♪
♪ Satellite high above ♪
♪ Looking down, send us love and hope ♪
♪ Getting home alone ♪
♪ Everybody down below is looking on enjoying the show ♪
♪ Waiting for the overstare that the crowd will never get ♪
♪ History lesson number three ♪
♪ History flashing through the screen ♪
♪ Sea of tranquility ♪
♪ Luna marching floating free ♪
♪ In the breeze ♪
♪ Radio telescope ♪
♪ Inter transmission broken down ♪
♪ We're back into the blue ♪
♪ Everybody down below is looking on enjoying the show ♪
♪ Waiting for the overstare that the crowd will never get ♪
♪ Everybody down below is looking on enjoying the show ♪
♪ Waiting for the overstare that the crowd will never get ♪
♪ History lesson number three ♪
♪ History flashing through the screen ♪
- Why were the Stones so out there?
That really focused on this guy Brian Jones.
- You think of the Rolling Stones in the mid-60's
and you think of Brian Jones.
You don't think of Mick Jagger,
you certainly don't think of Keith Richards.
Brian Jones is the perfect British rock star.
He's the first English rock star
with perhaps the best look there's ever been
of any British rock star.
- He was the one who was introducing them
to these Moroccan sounds, to world music,
he was the one who was the friend of John Lennon,
the friend of Jimi Hendrix.
- Although there were five individuals
you sort of knew that he was the governor.
- He was a major player in the 1960's
in charting new regions which had been thought
otherwise impossible for young white men
to even think about.
Musically,
fashion wise,
attitude wise.
He was a trailblazer.
Hedonism, excess,
he embodied all of those in his 27 years.
- Brian's peripatetic wanderings around London,
a hunted man, obviously called for a sense of relocation
and his advisors came up with Cotchford Farm
down in East Sussex in the little village of Hartfield.
So he found a great sense of peace and identity
at Cotchford Farm.
With the village of Hartfield
and the locals here adopted him.
They're very protective
and so for the short while that he was here
during 68 and into 69 he found a sense of community
which didn't exist in London.
- Brian has found his dream home,
previously owned by AA Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh,
and it has a swimming pool which is ideal for him.
He kind of seems to be largely, as far as I know,
off drugs at that point although he's drinking a lot.
- He was indulged in by the doctors
who went on prescribing right till when he died.
When people say oh, he wasn't taking drugs anymore.
He wasn't smoking hash and taking cocaine
or taking anything else of that type
but he was taking a whole bunch of dreadful type of things.
And he was drinking heavily!
That's why his health so badly declined
in the following year.
Brian was very much a broken man
and was never functioning at the same level of genius
that he had before because he was relying
on these prescription pills.
The doctors overprescribed constantly
which is why little by little
this problem developed in the group, I think,
where because everybody was preoccupied with their own thing
but Brian was the absent one.
As time went by, he came to,
he knew I was seeing a lot of Mick and Keith
and he would ask me, what are the Stones doing?
He would use these words, what are the Stones doing,
what are they up to and so forth
as if he wasn't part of it anymore.
- Well Brian by the time rock n' roll
had become marginalized as far as the group was concerned
simply because they couldn't rely on him,
they wouldn't know whether he was gonna turn up
to the recording sessions or turn up too late
or turn up in a condition in which he couldn't contribute.
- Cotchford Farm needed some renovations
and from all available reports of the builders
they were on a jolly as we say over here
and they weren't gonna get much done.
This existed for a period of time
before even Brian decided that enough was enough.
The building work was shoddy
and they were generally taking over,
in particular the main builder Frank Thorogood
even moved into the property.
- Frank Thorogood was brought into the movie
by Tom Keylock so the pair of 'em were in cohorts
at some level or another.
- Tom Keylock was a minder.
He was one of those people that occupy positions,
roadie, chauffer, tour manager, stroke minder.
- Tom Keylock was much older than the Rolling Stones.
He had connections with all tiers of officialdom police
and also the underworld as well.
So he was a shady character, world wise.
- Frank and Tom Keylock were
really living the life in Brian's house.
- Brian was not around.
He was always in the country
and he wasn't going to,
I think a lot of times he just didn't go even
to the recording sessions and so on.
- Yeah, I saw Brian in the studio,
he's sitting in the corner.
- He had no discipline whatsoever.
And I think that was his undoing
because they thought if we can't rely on him
we'll get on without him.
And that's what eventually happened.
- He was a difficult guy to love, Brian.
I can imagine Brian really getting up
in Mick and Keith's nose in the end
because of his demands
and his moaning and dissatisfaction with his lot.
- But the idea that Brian was pushed out
I think is ridiculous.
Brian created a situation where they had to push him out
otherwise he could've brought the band down.
- He was talking about leaving anyway
so I wasn't surprised.
I didn't really feel particularly bad about it
because he was potentially brilliant
and a very, very intelligent person
but he just seemed to be set on destroying himself.
♪ Well I'm looking out the window ♪
- Cheltenham, people sort of said at the time
or people have said since that it was a sort of stayed place
but it never was.
There was plenty to do and there was the typical rock scene
that there'd been with the Teddy Boys and rock n' roll
and the sort of coffee shop era.
There were plenty of coffee shops and little cafes
and plenty going on.
♪ Did you ever have the feeling baby ♪
- Brian came from a very well to do
middle class family
and he proved to be something of a character.
- I think the significant clue to Brian
is in his early childhood which is when he's four
and his two year old sister dies.
His parents soon have another daughter
but the mother who'd been heartbroken
at the loss of the first child
transfers all her love and affection
onto this new daughter,
withdrawing it, it seems, from Brian.
And Brian at that point starts to develop asthma.
- Also, he told me things about his sister Pamela
who had died and when he was a naughty boy, as it were,
his father or mother would threaten him
with the same result.
- He wasn't interested in going to college
although he went to a very good college
called Dean Close in Cheltenham.
- He could've gone to university,
he was very bright, Brian.
Had a very high Mensa intelligence rating
but he also had the emotional rating of a child.
And that was his problem.
- His parents wanted him to be a classical musician
so when he discovers jazz at the age of 14,
starts playing saxophone.
- Cannonball Adderley was Brian's real favorite.
- Which became an absolute religion with him.
He played the piano quite nicely,
he'd had quite legitimate lessons from a very good teacher
but all the time his fanaticism for jazz music
was coming to the fore
it was a great disappointment to us
and source of considerable anxiety
when he became so wrapped up in his love of jazz music
that in spite of everything we could do or say
he went off and did it.
- I used to learn piano and clarinet.
I used to play clarinet.
Thank you.
And I lost interest in the clarinet
because I became very involved in musical studies
and I lost a lot of interest
because I think I was getting in a rut,
I was getting too involved.
- His parents threw him out one Christmas time
and a little before Christmas
Left a suitcase on the doorstep.
That was the first thing he told me about his parents.
- He wasn't interested in settling down
to do any work.
He didn't mind working, he got some jobs.
He had a job which I mentioned earlier in Gloucestershire
and he had no parents to help him.
- He didn't want to settle down.
He just wanted to party, party, party
and make love to as many girls as he possibly could.
He was a naughty boy, he really was.
When he told me about Valerie
he also told me about an earlier one.
At the time he was going out with Pat and she was pregnant.
- By the time Brian was 19
he had three illegitimate children.
How do you cope with that?
His reputation wasn't very good.
I was surprised by it because I'd never been friends
with somebody who suddenly was persona non grata.
Being beaten up by an umbrella in the street
and such a thing.
- We were both interested in jazz and blues
but blues came on much stronger after that.
To start with it was jazz.
He was getting into the blues
because he heard the old stuff
like Lead Belly and I had a record with Elmore James on it
which is something that really grabbed him
the first time he heard it.
- And I started to play the guitar
and it gave me a new feel musically
and I became interested in jazz
and rhythm and blues eventually.
- Elmore Jones.
- Gradually worked around to playing
with the Rolling Stones, shut up.
- One of the people we used to go and see
in the early days was Alexis Korner.
He was often called the father of rhythm and blues
in England at that time.
- After the performance in Cheltenham,
Brian came up to me together with a friend of his.
I gave him my address and phone number and everything
and he used to appear and sleep on our floor
and come around the odd clubs if I was playing anywhere.
- He was really in the forefront of British blues
and he also played with a guy called Cyril Davies
who had Cyril Davies All-Stars
and these were real pioneers of British blues
and it was when Alexis Korner starts a club
in Ealing in West London in April 1962.
- Brian sat in, he played with Alexis at the Ealing Club
on several occasions.
- He's billed himself as Elmo Lewis
who has learned to play slide guitar.
He's found a piece of metal
that he can put on his finger
and he can therefore emulate the sounds
of Elmore James and others.
- Alexis talked to Brian
and right from the beginning he thought
he was a very accomplished guitarist.
He was very influential on Brian
because he became a father figure, I thought,
and he started to make real plans then for going to London.
- Well from my point of view
the group started with Brian, really
in that he was the first one I met.
- There would not have been a Rolling Stones
without Brian Jones.
Brian Jones was the man who caused the band
to come into effect.
He was the one who placed an advert in Jazz News
looking for other members who were interested
in a blues band.
The first person I think to respond to it
was Ian Stewart, the keyboard player,
who was particularly close friend of mine.
- Mick, Keith and myself went down to the Ealing Club
and I think it may be the second or third week we went there
we saw Brian Jones play on stage with Paul Jones,
I think it was.
I think he played either with Paul Jones
or Long John Bal-dree or both
and we were just knocked out with his playing.
The thing with Brian is he played amazing slide guitar
and we heard people like Elmore James on record
and here was a guy actually doing it
for real, for live, in Ealing which was amazing
and so we went and talked to him
and Brian invited Mick to go and sing with his band
at which point he asked me if I could play bass
which I'd never done.
That was it really, the Rolling Stones were born.
People always seem to ask about Edith Grove,
which was absolutely where Mick, Keith and Brian lived
and I remember going there and going oh my God,
do people really live like this.
- Oh my God, what a place that was.
That was a hellhole on Earth.
- Before hippie squats it was a hippie squat.
- I think squat is too good a word.
- It was summer of 1962, I guess,
and we were having a good time.
We'd go there every week, rehearse,
have a lot of laughs.
One thing which I think people don't know
so much about Brian,
he actually had a brilliant sense of humor.
I don't know, he used to pull the most ridiculous,
gruesome faces.
At that point we had become the Rolling Stones.
At that point all the gigs were coming through Brian really.
Our very first gig was the Marquee club
which was pretty terrifying because at that point
it was like one of the most prestigious clubs in London.
- I'd been to a gig at the Flamingo
and there were about,
probably more people on the stage
than there were in the audience.
- He was a rat bastard 'cause he knew I had money
from the Army and he used to make me go
to the nearest wimpy bar and he'd say to me,
you stay here, you can't come in with us.
Give us some money so we can have the food
but you stay out here
in this really unbelievably cold winter
'cause he had a cold streak
and Brian desperately wanted a new guitar.
We went around the guitar shops
and eventually I bought him a Harmony Stratocaster.
- I think there was always a bone of contention
between Brian and Mick and Keith
as to who's band it was, who was the leader,
because Brian because of starting his other band
sort of thought well, it was his band,
whereas really what it was a kind of amalgam
of Brian Jones, Brian's band
and with Mick, Keith and myself
from what we had called Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys.
I, after a while of doing this,
decided that I didn't want to play bass anymore,
I wanted to play guitar and so I left.
- Brian is kind of running the gig initially
and the management team who came to see them
play in Richmond and signed them up
is this young hustler called Andrew Loog Oldham
and Eric Easton who was much more a traditional
English showbiz kind of guy.
- He was working with the Beatles on their publicity
and he was looking for something more of his own,
something he could move on from just being a publicist.
- I think the reason Andrew didn't want him in the band
was because he didn't feel that his look
was quite right to the image.
- He initially saw that the route for the Stones to take
was a similar kind of route the Beatles took
where Brian had Epstein knocked off the rough edges
and promoted them as a more acceptable,
good, clean living lads and all around entertainers
and Andrew started in that direction with them.
They had suits that he bought for them
which they swiftly lost or mislaid, didn't wear 'em.
- And I realized,
'cause I didn't realize when I first met them
that it was Brian's group
and everything revolved around him.
He was a top class musician, Brian,
really a great player.
The whole group was good but you just knew
that he was the leader somehow or another.
He even got paid more money than anybody else,
unbeknownst to the other Stones
and I remember when they found out they weren't pleased.
- During the tour in 1963, the end of 1963
when they're supporting the Everly Brothers,
it emerges during that time
that he's getting this additional five pounds a week
to everyone else and Keith Richards later said
when we found that out,
that was the beginning of the end for Brian.
- I think it would've been Mick
rang me and said that they were doing some recordings
and could I go along and do a number with them
and then Andrew obviously was there
and in fact Phil Spector was also in the studio
at the same time 'cause Andrew was a great fan
of Phil Spector's.
On that record that I did with them
you can hear the influence,
that big sort of wall of sound.
- I thought he was really important in the studio.
He wasn't a producer in the technical sense, I don't believe
but he was a producer in an emotional sense.
- We used to laugh and talk about
can you imagine Mick doing this when he's 40.
It was unheard of and we used to talk about
what are we gonna do when all this was over
'cause we were all convinced this was gonna last
one or two years and we'd have to get a proper job.
We just had no idea it was gonna last
or had no idea it was gonna rock the world like it did.
- I didn't really see too much of Brian
until myself and the Pretty Things
which by then we were doing pretty well.
We got a house in Belgravia
which is a very posh part of London which we were renting
and the guy who had the flat downstairs
was letting Brian who wasn't very fond of paying rent,
he was staying in the basement
so then we basically saw a lot more of one another again.
- We were both gigging
so we got home about an hour before
and we're all getting stoned
and that happened to be the day
that Five by Five EP came out
so we put it on, we're listening to it, completely stoned,
having a laugh like you do
and Brian came in and he saw us
sitting around the record player
and laughing with this record on.
So he came rushing back with a ukulele
and smashed it over Viv's head, good friends.
So Viv is sitting there wearing this ukulele like,
I wasn't wearing this before.
And Brian was convinced we were taking the piss
out of the record and when went away a week later
he got all our singles and he melted them with a lighter
and stuck them on the wall of the bathroom
and wrote in shaving foam, you fucking cunts,
you fucking wankers because he really thought,
and we hadn't, we were really enjoying the record.
That's paranoia for you.
- Brian was maybe less of a happy character
than when I used to know him, I must say,
even though the Stones were by that time
very, very successful.
- No one in the British public
really knows about the tensions that have begun to appear
with in this band but Brian is seen
as the personification of the Rolling Stones.
- I think the most important thing to us
is when we go on stage
is that we succeed in communicating to an audience
and the only way we can do this is to produce
an exciting atmosphere therefore if the kids scream
we love it, we react to their reaction.
- Bill was the only one
who was coming to the house and stayed.
Very often, you know, sleep there
and I knew that Bill was really, he really liked Brian.
But the others I knew, I knew I could feel
that there was a sort of bad feeling about him.
But Brian was really a nice boy.
He was crying almost every night.
He was telling me about the film he wanted to do with me
and he was telling me how vulgar were the songs
of Keith and Mick.
Oh yeah, he was really pissed off with them already
because he thought that it was not the music
that he really loved and that the old group was his group
and suddenly he was feeling that the group
was escaping from him.
- He still felt he was leader of the group
for the couple years after it started
and he used to be a bit bitter under the surface
that Mick was the leader of the group, not him,
and the fact that they were recording
all Mick and Keith's songs.
Brian was incapable of writing music
and so I'm not really sure what else he wanted them to do.
- Keith and Mick realized it early on
and Andrew realized early on that the money was to be made
both working and composing and doing your own songs.
A matter of necessity would change
the direction of the band.
- No, we're sort of developing
in lots of different directions musically, I think.
- Brian's big complaint to me was he got
a bigger mailbag as Mick and he wanted to sing a song
and I said fuck off, Mick's
sing a song, you can't, he probably could sing.
I said why are you rocking the boat?
Get on with it.
He said, "Yeah but you know,
"I got as many a fans as Mick."
So that was his big beef.
- By the time of the third American tour
Brian is starting to get into what we see as his demise.
He's very into uppers, he's also drinking a lot,
Brian also drank a lot
and later you would see this puffiness on his face.
- Satisfaction changed everything not only in terms
of the commercial success of the band,
the broadness of the audience, the success in America,
all of those things but it also changed
the dynamic of the band because Mick and Keith
were suddenly established as the songwriters.
Suddenly the band was going to be doing
their original material and that changed
the dynamic of the band.
- Once that was established,
the focus or the tension in the band
changed to the lead singer and the lead guitarist
who were writing the songs.
Brian got sidelined
and Brian couldn't take that kind of thing.
It was a massive blow to his self esteem.
- That's why he started to drink more,
take more pills every day
and there was always nice people to bring
huge quantities of pills for Brian.
- He was unequipped for fame, he was fragile
and he was quite comfortable while he was emulating
the inspiration or aspects of these heroes
like Muddy Waters or Bo Diddley or whoever.
He was comfortable in his own world.
Soon as they try to move him out of that
and get him to write his own songs he was uncomfortable.
- Pop songwriting was not something
that he could easily knock off
and Brian was extremely instrumental,
fundamentally instrumental in making every one
of those hit songs immortal by his contributions.
- Yes, I think he was highly thought of.
He was clearly extremely adept as a musician.
He was able to play almost any instrument.
- Things like Under My Thumb where he played marimba
and then he played sitar of course on Paint It Black.
He could pick up an instrument whether it be an oboe
or Mellotron and he could change the aspect of the song
so that it became a hit.
He made hit records.
- Acid is an extraordinary tool to explore
magical dimensions that exist within oneself.
When Brian felt comfortable and saw the wealth
and the benefit of these things,
being ultrasensitive as an individual,
he would easily fall prey to undue fears.
- Brian was definitely the most experimental
in terms of drug use at that point in time.
He was a tortured soul.
He was out of balance.
He had psychological issues.
Looking back, I think probably he was
an undiagnosed bipolar, unmedicated bipolar.
We were all too young and too inexperienced
to know how to deal with that.
I mean, yes, he was a cracked person,
- Anita was an extraordinary personality,
was so vibrant and so intelligent
and so inspiring and so avant guard in her sexuality
and everything else that obviously Brian
would be hopelessly in love with her
and remain hopelessly in love with her
despite all the other girls.
- She scared me a bit, I found her scary.
I think she was very intelligent
but she got into some weird areas.
- When she came and joined Brian
at a break in the tour in Miami
they certainly did a lot of acid
over a couple days that she stayed
and I think everybody knew that.
I don't recall anybody else doing acid
at that particular moment in time.
- Keith Richards was with this girl called Linda Keith
who left him and he was very cut up about it
so he took refuge with Brian and Anita.
- Kind of reignited Brian and Keith,
the friendship that they had when the lived
together in Fuller but there's a lot of drugs going on.
- They always blame Anita for everything that happened
but it's totally unfair because Brian
was not by any stretch of the imagination a faithful guy.
- Brian was a very touching character.
You could not help being intrigued by him.
There was something very vulnerable about him,
very sensitive, he had an incredible insight into people
an almost devilish insight.
Now that was the mean side of him
that if he saw through people
and then used what he felt was their weakness somehow
to torture them.
- He invited me around to his apartment
with his girlfriend, we had dinner together
and I sold him a German uniform he bought from me
'cause I was so military at the time as well.
- And he had this need to challenge people,
challenge the public by showing up in a Nazi uniform
which you could do that maybe in London
but in Munich it was not funny.
- Towards the end of that summer,
Brian and Anita go to Morocco
where Brian and Anita have a huge row
and Brian tries to punch her, maybe does punch her
but certainly punches the wall and breaks his hand.
- He did break his wrist one time in Africa
and from then on he just didn't wanna play guitar.
He played soprano sax on a Beatles B-side.
- One day on the set, Anita came to see me.
Brian had left and she said Brian is asking
whether he could do the music for the movie.
I was speechless.
You don't turn down the offer of a Stone
to do your music in 1967.
Allen Klein just had taken over the management of the Stones
and Brian said you got to come with me to see him
and he was as scared of him, I think, as I was
and convince him that he let me do this.
And a couple of months later during which time
he was supposed to compose the music
he was in very bad shape.
He was not always in the state that he could work
or focus or concentrate
or even show up before one at night or so.
He asked for a lot of musicians,
a wonderful pianist, Nicky Hopkins, to come in.
Keith Richards fortunately showed up
who saved the recording session.
- Jimmy Page plays on that for example
and the soundtrack never came out as an LP
but it's sensational, in fact.
- I was in the recording studio when it became vividly clear
that the band were going in a direction without Andrew.
They were recording Satanic, the tension was really
increasingly unpleasant, particularly Mick and Keith
were coming to the sessions later and later.
- In 67 when I stayed with him
we started working on stuff together
which was very avant guard
because he was always ahead of the curve
and he wanted to do some proto rap things
with my using words that I was coming up with
and saying oh can we use this but not on a separate project,
on a Rolling Stones project,
so he was convinced that this would somehow fit.
- Sergeant Norman Pilcher was an opportunist career cop
based in the London drug squadron in the 1960's.
He made a name for himself during the decade
for busting high profile pop stars.
- Sergeant Pilcher was known as the groupie cop.
He busted John Lennon and Yoko Ono,
George Harrison and it's always very dubious.
- Pilcher's first strike on the music industry
occurred in 1966 where he went for Donovan.
This dovetailed with the News of the World article
Pop Stars and Drugs, so it was obvious from that point
that the press were working hand in hand with the police.
Brian Jones, he had the misfortune to meet two reporters
undercover from News of the World
and who managed to talk him into revealing
all sorts of detail about his drug use.
When Brian would continually reference his leader
of the Rolling Stones status
they scurried back to their offices
to say we've got Mick Jagger talking about drug use.
This in turn went into the second feature
of Pop Stars and Drugs saying that Mick Jagger
had been in a club in London talking about his drug use.
When this was disseminated
at the Rolling Stones organization
Mick Jagger who was in Italy at the time
slapped liable suit on the News of the World.
So the News of the World were in a quandary
and the only way they could embarrass the liable suit
was to find Mick Jagger in possession of drugs.
Now, within the next few days
a furious amount of activity went on
to penetrate the Rolling Stones organization,
penetrate Mick and Keith's movements
and as luck would have it for them
that a party was being held at Redlands in Sussex
which was gonna be attended
by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
- The Redlands bust, which is February 67,
Brian isn't there.
In fact, he's not there because he's been working
on the soundtrack of A Degree of Murder
and he and Anita are supposed to go down there.
- The party took place and the News of the World
tipped off the local police
who mounted a raid on the property.
They found a few roaches,
they found in a coat of Mick Jagger's
four amphetamine pills which would have been
legally acquired in Italy.
More damning for one of their party,
Robert Fraser they found 20 plus heroin tablets
in his jacket pocket.
But as far as News of the World was concerned
it meant they'd embarrassed the liable suit.
- They decide to go to Morocco
and then they drive down to through France
and on the first day Brian is sitting in the back of the car
just rolling immense joints
and eventually he basically collapses,
he kind of has an asthmatic attack
and they leave him in hospital
and they continue on their way.
He's gonna join them when he gets out of hospital.
- Anita didn't callously abandon Brian for Keith.
This affair started but she was torn between two lovers
and she wrote, what people don't know
is that she wrote every day to Brian
and Brian every day to her.
Indeed, Brian made me read Anita's letters.
In this case he pushed the wrong buttons
and got the wrong effects
and he could've, when he got more physical with her
to put it mildly there was a problem,
what would they do and they decided
that to avoid a worse problem
the best thing to do was to leave.
- They split to Tangiers
and they leave Brian with the bill.
There was kind of a lot of nastiness towards Brian.
- The problem is that Brian felt abandoned
and being paranoid he felt,
oh, they've left me behind sort of thing.
He was devastated by being left behind
but after the fact he told me
that he was himself to blame.
- During the sessions when we recorded in London
everything was more or less fine with Anita and Brian
even though she was very upset that he didn't
make more of this opportunity
and the fact that Keith stepped in to help out
and to get the thing done should've been a hint
but I was unaware of it.
Two months later the film premiered
at the Cannes Film Festival.
Anita showed up with Brian, of course,
and we were on the red carpet and all that
and it was a great event but Keith was there as well.
- Brian was determined to get Anita back.
These arrangements were made and much to Brian's relief
I went with him to Cannes with the intention
of seeing whether we could engineer a reconciliation
between Brian and Anita.
It was a very joyous night and it was full of affection
and good times but it became very clear to all of us
that she would not go back to Brian.
I told Brian, look, the best thing to do
is let's fly in Suki.
I thought she'd be a good substitute
and indeed she was for a while a very good substitute
and she took it but she wasn't Anita.
She had the looks but she didn't have the character,
she didn't have this amazing Anita vibe.
- What I firmly believe was the turning point
in Brian's life was when he lost the only girl
he ever really loved.
I think this was a very severe blow to him.
He changed suddenly and alarmingly
from a bright, enthusiastic young man
to a quiet and morose and inward-looking young man.
- Very interestingly on the day Mick and Keith
were formally charged with possession of drugs
following the Redlands raid,
Pilcher's squad mounted a raid on Brian's flat
in South Kensington on Courtfield Road
where Brian was present.
- We arrived fairly late in the evening
and went to bed at Courtfield Road
and in the morning the phone was ringing off the hook
and they were all calling us because everybody
seems to have been tipped off that we would be busted.
And they all said, have you been busted
and we said what are you talking about?
We talked to Robert Fraser who said
let me send Mohammad, my servant,
to clean up Courtfield Road.
And there was likelihood that drugs were secluded somewhere
and with a team of Pilcher's squad raiding the place
they would probably find drugs
but also which has later come to light
it probably didn't matter 'cause Pilcher's squad
would probably bring their own just in case.
- When I went to the door to open the door
for whom I took to be Mohammad
there was this rush of people that again,
I took to be reporters.
I tried to close the door but they were faster than I was
and they knocked me backwards and then they rushed forward
and steadied me before I hit the wall
and said, "So sorry, sir, but here we have a warrant
"to search these premises for drugs."
- The raid took place under the glare of the press corps
who were camped out outside the flat.
- They marched straight over to where Brian had his bed
on the floor, they flipped his mattress
and very conveniently a kind of cheap-o leather wallet
came out and this cop with a big smile on his face
looked at it and it was full of this grass.
Then they found this empty vial
and this cop said to us,
"Ooh, I would like to know what's been in there."
And we said, "What?"
I remember Brian, it was like this stupid act, what!
And he looked and he said, "Cocaine."
And we went, "Oh no!"
You know, like this, and he went yeah, but you know,
what could be, I'm not gonna charge you for that,
am I, he said, what could be in there?
One thousandth, those are the exact words,
I'll never forget them, one thousandth of a grain?
We were taken down to Chelsea police station
and it was a media frenzy.
There were hundreds of reporters
and suddenly someone from the office came
and posted bail for both of us
and so we were told that we were free to go
until the next day when we had to go to court
but meanwhile Brian was caving in slowly
because his defense said you better not see
any of the other Rolling Stones,
don't hang out with Stash too much.
You gotta stay away because if they bust you again together
it could make your case worse
so Brian got a bit isolated and then
I was absolutely astounded and both Brian and I
looked at each other in horror because that's when we heard
the police lie and call us naive if you will
but we never expected Scotland Yard,
we thought we can lie
but they're not allowed to lie.
But they did because their account of the bust
and what we said and so on was so completely wrong
and inaccurate that we were absolutely horrified
and so again we were remanded to be tried by jury later on
and during that time after our second court appearance
that's when Brian started to fall apart.
Brian was somebody that everybody looked up to.
When he was on top of his game nobody could beat him
and certainly nobody disrespected him in those days.
Everybody deferred to him, in the studio and everything.
His word was king.
He only lost that edge when after we were busted
and he was unfortunately introduced to Mandrax
and he took like a doctor order to these prescription pills
and started to overindulge in them
and then he became absolutely useless.
- Brian again being of a rather weak nature
would succumb to almost any temptation.
He could resist anything but temptation.
- I remember seeing him at Olympic being propped up
in the booth and basically given the instrument
and he did play and he managed to play
but he was almost falling over.
So yes, it was very difficult and it was tragic.
- Earlier Jones admitted that he'd allowed his flat
in Courtfield Road in West Kensington
to be used for drug taking.
The prosecution said a total of 35 and a quarter
grains of cannabis,
that's enough to make about seven to 10 cigarettes
were found in his flat.
Jones is said to have told police, "Yes, it is hash.
"I do smoke it, but not cocaine, man.
"That's not my scene."
- None of us spoke like that.
They just made it up to make it sound plausible.
So the whole thing was completely trumped up.
- Jones in evidence said he had taken drugs in the past
to a slight extent but he'd now decided to have
absolutely nothing to do with them.
He was never really dependent on them
but was only an occasional smoker.
- He didn't listen to me, sadly.
I went to the gallery, he did the stupidest move of his life
which would prove fatal to him.
He pled guilty.
- When sentence was passed, Jones winced
and a number of teenage girls in the public gallery
stood up and burst into tears.
Passing sentence, Mr. Reginald Seton, the chairman,
told Jones you occupy a position
by which you have a large following of youth
and therefore it behooves you to set an example.
- So I think it's likely that given the evidence
was conclusive on Brian that he had no other option
than to declare himself guilty.
- He totally let down the side
and it was a huge tactical miss,
a heartbreaking, huge tactical mistake.
And a tragic mistake because he was sentenced
to jail time and there was this manifestation
and yes, he did spend the night, then they released,
had this nervous breakdown almost and so on and so forth
but it escalated where in October of 67
he had about a year and a half to live, not quite two years.
- His drug taking was obvious.
He was a victim and easy prey for the police
and the establishment so they were picking on him.
Mick and Keith were much stronger, they were resilient,
they were able to cope with it much better.
They were able to even exploit it in a positive way
if that's possible but Brian was just going downhill.
- It was a plot to get rid of the Rolling Stones
once and for all and Brian was seen as the anchor
or the person who was the best musician and so on
and decapitating the Rolling Stones,
you already had Mick and Keith,
those guys were going to jail.
If you jailed Brian that was the end of the band
and it was finished,
there would be no Rolling Stones anymore
and this terrible influence
that the Rolling Stones would have on the youth
was this menace, was being averted
by this fucking bowler-hatted establishment.
- It's interesting because where Mick and Keith
in the Redlands raid were under advice
to swear not guilty of the charges,
Brian was advised to plead guilty.
The circumstances of the Redlands raid
were the evidence was flimsy.
Brian's was perhaps more damning.
- Brian just wasn't equipped to cope with that
and there was nobody to help.
We didn't know how to support him
and he was a manipulative person
and he was a person who would push you to the very limits.
- When I seen Brian just a few months earlier,
in January he came in the studio
when I was working as a tape op
for All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix,
and he came down hanging out with his girlfriend.
And he seemed really sharp and on the case
and he didn't look overweight or anything,
he looked pretty healthy
and then to see him three or four months later
where he'd kind of put on a lot of weight,
he was very puffy, that thing you get when you drink a lot
or you're taking drink and pills.
It was something had been going on.
He wasn't like unconscious,
people have said so many things about this guy.
He could still function but he obviously wasn't well.
No one really bothered to talk to him,
he was put in a booth.
He's in the same room as everyone
but they had screens all around him
because he mainly was playing acoustic.
He got treated pretty bad by that point
but I think one of the highlights
or the magic that you were talking about earlier
was the No Expectations and the solo
that Brian played on that.
If you think of the kind of state he was in in a way
or perhaps they're not getting as much from him
as other members of the band, let's put it that way,
I disagree when people have said that his mic
wasn't even plugged in,
that's just another kind of let's get at Brian.
If it was good it would've been used.
If it wasn't it could be replaced, we had eight tracks.
But that night when he played the solo on that
it was just stunning.
- We could call it persecution if you like,
we could call it some personal misconduct
and the consequences thereof.
However you approach it
and however it's acceptable to other people.
- After that bust at Courtfield Road he was on the run.
He was paranoid, he couldn't feel safe anywhere.
He'd moved within Chelsea
and yet then a second raid occurred.
To me, this is far more obvious that the drugs were planted
because the marijuana that was found
was secreted in a ball of wool
and what Brian Jones would be doing with a ball of wool,
certainly not knitting.
- Thankfully for him he met a fairly receptive magistrate
and offered him a lifeline but this lifeline
was also dependent on heavy psychological reports
and if one actually sees them you could see the state
of Jones' shattered vizard at this point,
he was absolutely broken.
- Brian Jones had various trips out to Morocco.
He was enchanted with the sights and the sounds
and the aromas and when he first heard these
Pan Pipe players of Joujouka from the tribes
of the inter-lands of Morocco
introduced to him by the artist,
the left field artist Brion Gysin,
and to him it validated a lot of the sounds
that were in his head and he became enchanted with them.
- A significant point about this is that
Brian was like the first person really
as a British popular music to examine world music.
- I think he was relieved to have left the Stones.
He was very determined to, I think they call it,
turn over the page, yes, he was.
Which is one of the reasons he bought the house,
I think, in the country,
to be away from the nightlife and everything rock n' roll.
I think it's rock n' roll, it wasn't the blues,
it's the rock n' roll life.
- He got over that and was really planning ahead.
He was wanting to form a new band
and he was very excited because of all the musicians
that he'd heard in Morocco
and it was what we now would call world music.
Brian actually asked me if I would sing with them.
- I think he was happy there.
Sometimes he was lonely but it was his decision
to live in the country and be alone.
He had many friends, people that would come and see him
but very often the wrong people in my book.
- When Brian left the Stones his finances were reevaluated
and even though he was in for a large payment
and a large retainer there was no real ready cash.
He didn't write songs, he was not going to tour
so he was only getting mechanical royalties
which, this was in 1969,
so if we think of the rest of the Rolling Stones
who were fairly broke at that point
and soon would have to go into exile,
Brian's finances were going to be even more challenged.
So it really all came to a head.
- The night of Brian's death I was in the studio
with the Rolling Stones round the corner here at Olympic
and around about 12 o'clock, might've been a bit later,
Tom Keylock came into the Olympic Studios
and gathered Mick and a couple of the other Stones around
and outside the control room where I was sitting
with Marianne, finally Marianne went out,
was called out there and went into a huddle
and I think Tom put his arm around her
and she came back in, she was in tears
and she told me that Brian had drowned
in his swimming pool that night
and they thought that he got into difficulties
because of his asthma.
- July 3rd, 1969, I was in the Stones office,
the news had come through of Brian's death.
Everybody was genuinely shocked and upset
from the musicians to all the people, of course.
- And I only knew that he died
because the police called me the following morning
because they'd gone through his phone
and I was the last person he called, so they said.
- The response to Brian's death was
it was an accident waiting to happen.
- We were stunned when he died
and stunned that he was drowned
because he was a strong swimmer.
- The combination of prescription pills,
downers and the like and alcohol
damaged his liver and his heart
and it was very depressing, all that.
- I was disappointed that the verdict was what it was
and basically gave the newspapers the ability to say
it was drugs and alcohol
but the only drugs he had that I could see
were prescription drugs.
- And the amount of alcohol in his body was minor.
In my day when I was 27, 28,
I'd have to drink a hell of a lot
to do anything as stupid
as be unconscious in a swimming pool.
So none of it added up.
- I thought it was all a bit odd
and I questioned Mick a little bit about it
and I said, well what happens now,
what are you gonna do.
And he said, "It goes on, it goes on."
I said, "What goes on?"
He said, "Everything."
And everything did go on.
Of course they got Mick Taylor involved
and did the Hyde Park concert.
- Peace, peace, he is not dead,
he does not sleep,
he has awakened from the dreams of life.
- When Mick read that appalling Shelley poem,
it was stamped on some dead butterflies
and that was supposedly that.
- Invulnerable nothings.
We decay like corpses.
- I was extremely upset when Brian died
and the streets of Cheltenham were absolutely packed.
And I mean packed.
- We weren't welcome at the funeral
because they didn't want that kind of press attention,
especially since it was strongly suspected when Brian died,
we all thought that it was an OD of some sort.
- I just felt very sorry, very sad for him.
Of course, it wasn't until years later
that people started making conspiracy theories
about his death.
- Can't dismiss what the coroner
actually came up with that night.
Although again, we have to also remember
that Frank Thorogood, the main builder,
the character who was in the pool with Brian
was actually taken away that night,
he was actually arrested.
I could look at it in one sense
and say hay, the builders are sacked,
he's dead a few hours later
which could easily lead you to believe
that there was some revenge.
- And he rang me the evening sadly that he died
and he seemed to me absolutely fine
but we'd been several times before,
I can't remember, the boys remember more than I do,
and they were explicitly told do not touch.
And I think it was an inhaler but I could be wrong,
his medicine, it was called his medicine.
It was always by the side of the pool in case
and I was asked if there had been a party going on.
As far as I know there was no party going on.
Yes, there were people in the background
and people at the house, throughout the house
but it wasn't a party, I would've heard.
- But I think that there was definitely partying happening
and definitely cars leaving
and the builders getting out of there
but it would've been an impromptu party at Brian's expense
rather than a Brian Jones party that he had held himself.
I suspect it would be another example of those guys
exploiting him.
- I found out later snippets from various people.
The builder who was involved in this, Frank Thorogood,
who was in the pool with Brian at some stage.
- He's had a lot of building work done
but it's not been that very satisfactory.
He fires the builders.
The builders hang around, however.
And there's a party that night.
- The Nicholas Fitzgerald book
was dismissed by everybody at the time
but I think that probably got right.
I think what Nicholas did,
he turned up to go and see Brian,
one of those guys that Brian had befriended again
probably thought he was a good friend of Brian's
but probably wouldn't have lasted very long.
Turn up with the maid,
went, came down the lane to see Brian,
saw through the trees that there was all this activity
going on in the pool, not liking it,
someone pops up, almost certainly Tom Keylock,
and threatens him.
People claim they saw a lot of horseplay
going on in the swimming pool
'cause of course the official cause of death
is death by drowning.
- Brian was provoking him in some way
with a little bit of banter if you wanna call it that
and the banter got a bit nasty
and there was a bit of horseplay in the pool.
And Thorogood left him in a state
either after a ducking or a push or whatever
and walked away and left him
not really knowing or caring what condition he was in.
- Brian died during some kind of party
in an accident that went wrong,
I would say that's pretty much kind of what happened
but if there were other witnesses to his death
I think one of them would've come forward by now.
- The relationship with the builder
was a horrible, awful relationship.
It was a sick relationship, that's quite clear.
And the builder was sick fucker
and Brian was a sick fucker
but I don't think that guy murdered him.
I think the guy might've contributed to his death,
certainly, they might've been fooling around
but I don't think that he murdered Brian.
- This nasty incident led to Brian not being murdered
but being, the technicality is manslaughter.
- The first officer on the scene
was a young PC Albert Evans
and he spoke to about 20 people in the garden.
He put it all in his notebook,
they all near enough said the same thing.
There had been a fight between Frank Thorogood
and Brian Jones that led to the death of Brian Jones.
When Bob Marshall, the CID officer who led the investigation
turned up about four hours later.
The first person he spoke to was Albert Evans
and he led him away from Cotchford Farm,
walked him out the lane and he said what have you heard,
what do you think?
And young PC Evans said everyone's saying the same thing,
there's been a fight between Frank Thorogood and Brian Jones
which has led to the death of Brian Jones.
At that point, Marshall put his arm around PC Evans,
said that'll be the last we hear of that
and led him back to the house.
And from that point onwards the real police investigation
into the death of Brian Jones ended
and what they found as a result of that
was a constructed story.
We know from the two drug squad officers who arrived
at the scene at Cotchford Farm
about one o'clock in the morning
that Frank Thorogood wasn't at Cotchford Farm
at that poin, he'd been taken down to the hospital
and he'd been taken down to the hospital
because of treatment that was required to his hand.
I can only assume from what scene has been described
at Cotchford Farm that Frank would've injured his hand
in that fight with Brian.
- The builders had been fired that same day
and they were very upset with Brian,
they believed that they had money owed to them.
- Anna Wohlin was probably the youngest person there
in the garden on the night of Brian Jones' death.
She was undoubtedly, she says it herself,
she was high, she'd been taking drugs
and she freaked out when Brian Jones died.
She was still like that days later
and she was angry about it as well.
She was confused, she was starting to speak out about it.
Everybody who turned up at Cotchford Farm
would hear Anna saying he didn't die
through drink and drugs.
It was a fight that had led to the death
so the decision was taken to remove Anna
from Cotchford Farm and bring her up to London
to stay with Bill Wyman and his girlfriend Astrid.
Up here in London, Anna carried on talking about the truth,
she kept on saying that Brian Jones had died in a fight
and people needed to know this
and she arranged through a friend to speak
to the Times newspaper and to tell them the truth
and at that point she was sharing all of this with Astrid
and within hours she'd been put in a car
and she'd been driven across London to Allen Klein's house.
She had to stay in the UK because of the inquest
that took place four days after Brian's death
but she was driven from the inquest
by Rolling Stones management, taken to Heathrow,
thrown on a plane and told never to come back.
- When we found Anna she said one of the reasons
she did not come forward was that she was scared of Tom
and that she had been warned after the inquest.
- I would've been much more frightened
to have been threatened by Tom Keylock than by Allen Klein.
Keylock was a funny guy.
- Janet also was having an affair with Tom at the time
and it seemed that the reason she was also frightened
of talking about the whole thing
and she almost got into hiding was because of Tom Keylock.
Tom held the key to this thing
and he openly said that he believed
that his colleague at the time
who is of course deceased when we were looking into this,
Frank, had murdered Brian.
- So Keylock, that worked for Keith,
was down there at the farm, he had gotten down there
and the various tidbits that I gleaned and learned
over the next couple of days have always disturbed me
since those days,
one of which was that he was burning stuff there,
so none of us could really understand what that was.
What was he burning?
What he was burning, because none of it ever showed up,
was a lot of receipts that were to do, I think,
with the building work.
The building work that had been going on at the farm
was very expensive and there was a whole bunch of people
living on Brian's tab.
- My conclusion in the end was that he was being
royally exploited by Tom Keylock primarily
who even in his death was exploiting him.
He had taken his Rolls Royce, he had taken his clothes,
he had taken his possessions,
he somehow managed to inveigle a lot of money
out of the Rolling Stones and again nobody quite knows why.
- Tom Keylock was having an affair with this girl
who announced that she was pregnant
so Tom Keylock, instead of being,
officially he was somewhere else
but actually he was at Cotchford when this thing happened.
When Brian died he called Frank,
Frank Keylock, his brother,
who was very high up in the CID
and he got the whole thing supposedly
on behalf of the Stones,
they kind of manipulated this thing,
that's where people get really confused
but Keylock was acting on his own
without any mandate from anybody else
to cover his own ass about his own affair.
- Frank Keylock probably would've helped his brother
back in return but he wouldn't have been able
to offer as much support, as much help,
as the chief constable who'd supersede the police officers
who were across the details of Brian's death within hours
and they were endorsing the police activity on the ground
that was covering up the death.
I've heard that the fighting was going on in the gardens
rather than in the pool itself earlier in the day
and it's interesting, there's a trough in the garden
and that trough contained water
that would've been fresh water.
It could easily have been the case
that Brian had actually died outside of the swimming pool
and that trough of fresh water played a part in it.
- I ran a fan club for Brian Jones when I was a teenager,
bit of a teenage obsession.
I went to the house, went to Cotchford Farm, met the owner
and I became friends with Mary Hallett
who was Mrs. Hallett, who was Brian's maid
and her husband Les Hallett.
Then she passed away and I'd still go to the house
from time to time and the last time I saw Les Hallett
it was just hello, how are you
and then as I was leaving the area,
leaving the property of Cotchford and going down the drive
he was running after my car saying
they drowned him in the trough,
they drowned him in the trough and I didn't know,
what's a trough, right?
So I guess it's a barrel of some sort
but he said they drowned him the trough
and they threw him in the pool.
- That was the water that was inside his lungs,
it wasn't chlorinated water,
there were no chemicals inside the lungs.
I've had the medical reports analyzed
by senior pathologists and they have said
that the stress on the tissues around the heart show
that Brian Jones would've been aware he was being murdered.
Apparently the body responded a certain way
and they can tell it, those experts can tell
through the tissue damage what level of stress
the body was under.
- You can look at a contract
that's written about in many books
where Brian was due to be paid a block of money,
100,000 pounds as a one off payment
for his departure from the Rolling Stones
that happened four weeks before he died.
He was then due to get 20,000 pounds a year
every year that the band stayed together.
So you're talking about an awful lot of money.
Now when you look at Brian Jones' will
you can see that he died basically
without much money at all
so that money that Allen Klein was due to pay him,
about 100,000 pounds one off, the 20,000 pounds a year
didn't come.
- Allen Klein, you can't involve Allen Klein in this,
Allen Klein had much more important things to deal with
with the Beatles and so on.
- Allen Klein's making millions of dollars anyway,
100,000 pounds to Allen Klein is neither here nor there
when you think that he's personally responsible
for the revenue of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
He was a heavy man, no question about that
but he was a Jewish accountant.
Jewish accountants count the money,
they don't have people killed.
The idea that Allen Klein had somebody killed,
frankly, I think it's an insult to the man's memory.
He was a tough son of a bitch
but I don't think he was that hard.
- He was always tardy in coughing up the money
that was their own money
because he was always playing around with it
and it might've indirectly caused Brian his life,
this thing that the money wasn't arriving,
that conveniently it was delayed.
- Allen Klein decided to send his own person down there
and investigate look into Brian Jones' death.
A report was put together, Sam Cutler,
one of the Stones' tour managers said
that a report was put together
that went back to Maddox Street,
the Rolling Stones' head office.
- He was highly suspicious of the builder.
- Months after Brian Jones' death
the Stones flew to America on what became
their most lucrative tour of all time at that point.
If the Rolling Stones had had to stay in the UK
because of the death into Brian Jones'
police investigations, et cetera,
it would've just been an investigation
that would get bigger and bigger and bigger
so Allen Klein had a real investment
in making sure that tour went ahead as planned.
- And this was something right which makes me annoyed
'cause sometimes people say oh,
Mick and Keith had something to do with it.
- The band, that's ridiculous,
Brian Jones was worth a lot more to people alive than dead.
- After Brian's death, Joan Fitzsimmons was really,
violently attacked.
Her body was found effectively left for dead
on the side of the beach, she was blinded,
her skull was fractured and she had teeth missing.
Shed been really badly beaten up
and if you wind things back earlier on to that day
Frank Thorogood had been at the family home,
he'd been banging on the door,
he'd been demanding to know where Joan was.
He was saying she knows too much about the Rolling Stones,
she knows too much about Brian's death
and within hours Joan was attacked.
We now know that Joan Fitzsimmons
was definitely at Brian's house on the night he died.
She drove his girlfriend or his ex-girlfriend Sue Potier
away from the house about 30 minutes before Brian died
and then days later Joan was in the pubs
in and around Chichester
saying it's not true what's in the papers
about Brian Jones, the drink and drugs headlines,
they're not true, he was attacked, there was fighting,
he was attacked and he died.
Frank Thorogood obviously got wind of that,
he heard of that, brought himself back down to Sussex
and within hours Joan was attacked
and her body was found left for dead.
There was a newspaper report locally
down in Chichester that led to national newspapers
reporting that said there was a woman in a coma
in hospital in Southampton which is where she was taken to
that they said, everyone said there were connections
to Brian Jones' death.
This woman in the coma was linked to the death.
The police then shut that down
and said there were no links at all
but the police files that have now come out
show that the police knew the attack on Brian Jones,
the death of Brian Jones instantly led within days
to the attack on Joan Fitzsimmons
and that the same people, the same names were involved.
If you look at the pictures of the before and after
you could see the level of the violence that took place
at Cotchford Farm that night,
it was the same people involved.
It was the same police force that then came in
to look at it.
They knew they had a dead man in the swimming pool.
They knew they had a body left for dead
on the side of the beach
and they knew the same person was named
time and time again by witnesses,
yet they did nothing to try and bring that man to justice.
They did everything to create headlines
that said drink and drugs are bad.
If you look back at the social and political times
in 68, 69, to work out why did the police
or why did the home office or why did the government
want to spin the death of Brian Jones,
you have to look at the growth of the counterculture,
the growth of drugs for the first time as a social problem
and you have to look at what the home office
were advising the government,
they were basically saying get rid of the pop stars
and you get rid of the drug problem.
If you then look at the busts that were carried out
on Brian, on Mick in particular, on Brian especially,
all of those drug busts, 90% of them involved the police
actually trying to plant drugs inside the Stones properties.
The politics at the time was to say
we've got to destroy these bands,
we've got to destroy this counterculture that's emerging
and people like Brian Jones represented it more
than anybody else.
Again, if you go back to the Stones in 67, 68, 69,
Mick and Keith were not quite as rebellious as Brian,
they certainly weren't as connected
to drink and drugs as Brian.
They didn't look as counterculture as Brian.
He was the one,
he was the DNA of the band's rebellious nature
and when he died he became a poster boy.
The government could literally hold him up and say
this is what happens to you kids if you take drugs
and it was a total, total misuse
of actually what had happened.
The man had been killed but rather than get to the truth
they would rather spin out a lie
to suit their own political agenda
about what was going wrong in their minds with society
and the emerging counterculture at the time
'cause the truth is Brian Jones was killed.
The truth is Brian Jones didn't die of drink and drugs.
- They wanted to make an example of him, didn't they?
They wanted to show the kids,
oh, if you behave like this this is what's gonna happen.
Look what happened to him,
don't do drugs, don't enjoy yourself,
keep your nose clean, go and work hard.
- It piled up and all due to the fact
that the establishment wanting to do away
with the Rolling Stones.
It's very, very tragic.
That's how Brian Jones was killed, not by any conspiracy.
- And this all came together and I said my God,
he didn't just die, he was murdered
and the Sussex police completely bungled,
completely bungled the investigation.
All they did was just put this in a nice little package,
then they sealed it up and they put it in the ground
because that's the message that they wanted
to get across to people.
They wanted to take down the Rolling Stones,
they wanted to take down Brian Jones.
Drink and drugs, died in his pool,
nice, neat, that's it.
- I think the police in 2010 just continued the cover up
that was originally put in place in 1969.
That investigation in 1969 could've easily resulted
in the truth coming out, they had all the evidence.
It was a very deliberate decision at a senior level
to make sure that the truth didn't come out.
There has never been a reason given
for why it was a 75 year rule put onto the Brian Jones files
but what is absolutely clear is that when you look
at the Brian Jones police investigation
that it was was a cover up
and the you look at the Joan Fitzsimmons attack
that happened two weeks later.
If they didn't have that 75 year rule
put on that file it would be very clear
that there had been that double cover up.
It's wrong that a man's death could be ignored
and the truth be hidden so the establishment
could play politics with drug culture
on the back of that man's death, that's wrong.
- Keith Richards once said about him
that he was a hard man to like.
I didn't find that.
I actually found him very easy to like.
I think he was a hard man to like
if you had to live with him,
if you had to work with him
or if you had to be with him for long periods of time
because he had very little in the way of moral sensibility,
he was amoral and unreliable.
- I find him a very nice, charming, charming guy
and somewhat of an original in that band.
- I just thought he was wonderful.
Softly spoken and quite shy in a way.
- He was a very friendly, normal guy really
and I was just impressed as I've always been with him,
just how many instruments the guy could play.
Much maligned I think after that people
only want to read about sex and drugs
and how many women he had,
how many children, if he got five children,
I have no idea
and does anyone talk about the music?
I have no idea.
- He was a musical genius.
The Rolling Stones would not have existed without him.
I think they should give him the kind of respect
that he really deserves.
And also, the other thing about Brian is
that Brian's lifestyle,
his very evident aura of hedonism
was probably the first example of any British rock star
living the rock n' roll lifestyle
and maybe it's also that's a salutary warning as well.
♪ Everybody knows I killed Brian Jones ♪
♪ Ask John, ask Paul, ask George and Ringo ♪
♪ Go tell Mick he's the Charlton News ♪
♪ It was me who put the poison in his swimming pool ♪
♪ Everybody blames Billie Holiday's pimp ♪
♪ I was holding her hand when she went limp ♪
♪ Poor Amy Winehouse never stood a chance ♪
♪ I switched the starlet for adulterated ♪
♪ Under the counter plan ♪
♪ Made damn sure Jim Morrison's bath was hot when it ran ♪
♪ And a Grand Ole Opry on a Saturday night ♪
♪ I got Hank Williams high ♪
♪ When he took that last, last drive ♪
♪ I'll never be satisfied ♪
♪ Now Robert Johnson at the crossroads midnight ♪
♪ Did the deal with the devil blame another man's wife ♪
♪ Give Lemmy his one last line ♪
♪ With a pillow on the boys sing Rise, Lazarus, Rise. ♪
♪ I put the spike in Sid Vicious' arm ♪
♪ I tied the rope around and I walked to kingdom come ♪
♪ I left the soap on the floor ♪
♪ When Whitney Houston slipped in the shower ♪
♪ I'm a mystery man, shot Tupac Shakour ♪
♪ I'll never be satisfied ♪
♪ Everybody knows I killed Brian Jones ♪
♪ Ask John, ask Paul, ask George and Ringo ♪
♪ Don't tell Mick he's the Charlton News ♪
♪ It was me who put the poison in the swimming pool ♪
♪ Late one night in a Soho bar ♪
♪ Some cat turns up with an old guitar ♪
♪ He wears a candy striped suit ♪
♪ He's got straight blond hair ♪
♪ His name's Brian Jones, he's got a five yard stare ♪
♪ Hey look there goes Brian Jones ♪
♪ The real true leader of the Rolling Stones ♪
♪ Hey look there goes Brian Jones ♪
♪ Out somewhere in the old King Road ♪
♪ Some sick kind of leader powders her nose ♪
♪ She's got every single record by the Rolling Stones ♪
♪ And she's just about the lay it down to Brian Jones ♪
♪ Hey look there goes Brian Jones ♪
♪ The real true leader of the Rolling Stones ♪
♪ Hey look there goes Brian Jones ♪
♪ Welcome to the bitter world ♪
♪ You're hungry for the glitter girl ♪
♪ Precious and bright unfurled ♪
♪ You're hungry, hungry for the glitter girl ♪
♪ Pause into the lineage ♪
♪ Of any Trojan horse ♪
♪ Gallop from your Mama's womb ♪
♪ With no sense of remorse ♪
♪ Skewering social intercourse ♪
♪ You're on a treasure hunt ♪
♪ That the only rope your heart ♪
♪ Is just a missing part ♪
♪ Welcome to the bitter world ♪
♪ You're hungry for the glitter girl ♪
♪ Precious bright unfurled ♪
♪ You're hungry, hungry for the glitter girl ♪
♪ Glitter girl, glitter girl, glitter girl, glitter girl ♪
♪ Fill the hungry eyes ♪
♪ You're set in place, your own demise ♪
♪ Pick your markers like the one ♪
♪ And hit the streets of Babylon ♪
♪ Wearing lace and pearls and gloves ♪
♪ You pride them all with floating love ♪
♪ Welcome to the bitter world ♪
♪ You're hungry for the glitter girl ♪
♪ Precious ♪