In May 1962, 20-year-old musical prodigy Brian Jones posted a newspaper statement titled "Jazz News," saying he was going to start a blues band and hoped to find He hoped to find like-minded music lovers. Blues is Brian's favorite music and he idolizes Muddy Waters, a black blues master. Jones' announcement was echoed by a number of musicians, but he had a discerning eye, and in his search for a candidate, Mick Jagger, who had already made a name for himself with his distinctive voice and alternative stage persona, was an instant favorite. Jones also enlisted the services of 18-year-old guitarist Keith Richards, who did a superb imitation of American rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry. Jones was unsure about rockers entering a blues band, but he soon discovered that Richards' rhythm guitar greatly enriched his lead guitar playing. The band's melodic parts were established. After that, Jones brought in drummer Charlie Watts and bassist Bill Wyman, who handled the rhythm section of the band. With a name in place, it was time to give the band a name, and Jones called it "Rolling Stone" - after his idol Muddy Waters' song "Rolling Stone Blues.
Rebel
The Stones' rebellious streak was admired by young listeners, but feared by their fathers. At the time, the Beatles, who were already in their prime, wore short leather jackets for their shows, but the Stones did it their way: Jagger and Jones wore shirts and bell-bottomed pants, while Richards wore tattered jeans and looked like a hobo. "The Beatles played catchy tunes that quickly became hits, while the Stones held fast to their blues tradition. "While the Beatles always unconsciously appeared as spokesmen for youth and were worshipped as phantom totems, the Rolling Stones never sang metaphorical songs, but their works were rooted in living reality, reflecting the most ****ing voices of the young generation in the West at the time. The Beatles. "The Beatles' career flourished, with frequent appearances and performances around the world, while Jones, Richards and Jagger became regulars in the courtroom. But their performances just keep getting better and better.
Jones is in a bind because endless lawsuits have forced him to abandon his U.S. tour. Bassist Bill Wyman says Brian Jones "is probably the sweetest, most personable, most measured person in the world, and also the most rebellious". Jones struggled internally and became manic and depressed. He craved the company of the opposite sex, but brutalized his successive girlfriends, even punching and kicking them. In his short life he had five illegitimate children, none of whom he acknowledged.
Infighting
The most creative member of the Stones, Jones mastered the marimba and the sitar in a short period of time, making the other musicians blush. During the band's infancy, Brian was the centerpiece of the band, but the three main Stones were jealous of each other and competed with each other, leading to a lot of conflict within the band, which was on the verge of disintegration. At one point, Jones nearly fired Jagger for his poor singing. The animosity between the two men intensified to the point of knifing. The guitar duo of Jones and Richards didn't last long either, and when the latter began ****ing with Jagger on songs, the sympathy between the two guitarists cracked. Richards and Jagger took creative control of the Stones, and they became wealthy from the extra dividends.
By the end of the '60s, the band didn't want to follow Jones's musical philosophy of covering American blues and rock 'n' roll blues. Jones became isolated and sought solace in narcotics. His addiction to narcotics was to the detriment of the Rolling Stones. Tabloid journalists picked up on the story and made a big deal out of it. To make matters worse, Jones was on the verge of a breakdown. He became useless on stage and often fell head over heels in the middle of recording sessions. Finally, the band decided to take a short break to prepare to recuperate and regroup. They decided to take a vacation to Morocco.
Cynicism
Richards, Jones and his girlfriend Anita decided to take a bus to Morocco. Jones starts the trip in a great mood, sipping brandy from a kettle, chewing on marijuana leaves, and flirting with his girlfriend in the backseat of the car, oblivious to the fact that Anita and Richards have fallen in love with each other. The second day of the trip, February 28, 1962, was his birthday, but he was taken to a hospital in Toulouse with a cold. The French doctor convinced the young man to stay in the hospital for a few days, so he sent his traveling companions on their way first, agreeing to meet him in Tangier, Morocco, after he recovered from his illness. Brian spent his 25th birthday alone.
A few days later Anita received a telegram from Jones urging her to return to Toulouse to accompany him back to London. After less than a week, Jones, Anita and others flew from London to Gibraltar. He became depressed and finally realized that Anita was in love with Richards. He became manic and cried bitterly.
Jones finally falls ill in Marrakech. He pounced on Anita and called her unfaithful. At night, a drunken Jones bursts into her guest room with two local prostitutes and asks her to join them in an "orgy". Anita's refusal to do so caused Jones to smash up the room in a fit of rage.
The next day, Brian wanders around the square, watching the local drummers put on a spectacular show, after all his traveling companions have flown back to London. Back at the hotel, Brian is drunk, but he still realizes that Jagger and Richards have taken the Rolling Stones from him, and Richards has taken Anita.
Collapse
Brian Jones returned to London with damaged nerves. He simply loathed all of them. The rest of the band didn't bother with him, and if it wasn't for Jagger, he would have been expelled from the band. The far-sighted Jagger realized that the Stones still needed Jones, and he feared that the band's hard-earned reputation would be in tatters without Jones, who was a "mega-hit".
The resentment between Jones and his former friends grew. Despite the refusal of his peers to speak to him and the fact that his lover remained with Richards, Jones agreed to go on tour. After the tour, Jones let himself go: he didn't go to band rehearsals, he didn't go to recording sessions, and even when he did go, he didn't make a difference.
Late in the winter of 1969, an insufferable Mick Jagger decided to start Mick Taylor on lead guitar, and in early June, Jones calmly accepted his expulsion from the band. Jagger gave him a ￡100,000 severance package and a pension of ￡20,000 a year for as long as the Stones existed.
At this time, Jones had a new girlfriend, the beautiful Swedish girl Anna Waring, a professional dancer. Fearing for his deteriorating health, Jones forced himself to cut down on his drug use and to drink only white wine. He began to write again and discussed plans to perform on the same stage as John Lennon.
Destruction
Doom came swiftly.
Jones planned to renovate the house and hired Frank Tharogood, a carpenter's foreman, to live in a room above the garage. The workers were paid by the Rolling Stones. The foreman can't stand Jones' temper and treats him as a young thug who has nothing better to do, and the carpenters don't hide their disdain for the homeowner. It was Jones, who longed for friendship, who was magnanimous enough not to countenance the blatant disdain of the others. But on July 1 an incident occurred which angered him exceedingly. That night, the covered floorboards collapsed, and the beams nearly hit Anna Waring.
The next morning, Jones told Tharogood that if the beams weren't repaired, he wouldn't pay for the work and would have to reconcile all accounts, including the cost of meals. The foreman taunted him. Jones threatened to fire them and to make sure they could never find work again.
Jones rarely regretted what he had done, but he was ready to make peace with Tallowgood. In the evening, Jones invites the foreman to the pool for a drink and a swim. The aftermath of his anger, the foreman asked for some vodka, and Jones sipped brandy. The young musician also wanted to talk calmly with the workers and called everyone to the pool, except for Tarogood's girlfriend Janet, who stayed in the living room.
Anna Waring saw that Tarogood was in a bad mood as he swam, but Jones didn't seem to notice that. He dove under the water and grabbed the other man's ankle, jokingly dragging the foreman into the water. Thorogood clearly didn't like this, but Jones added to his humiliation by repeatedly messing with him and calling him "old man." Finally, Thorogood grabbed Jones by the shoulders and pushed him into the water. Jones scrambles to the surface, panting: he thought it was just a game. At that moment, Jeannette suddenly called Anna to answer the phone. A few minutes later there was a call from the yard, and as Anna ran down the stairs she saw Tallowgood in the kitchen, soaking wet, both hands shivering as he prepared to light a cigarette and doing his best to avoid Anna's gaze. Anna ran to the pool and saw Jones lying at the bottom with his arms spread wide.
Anna jumped into the water and tried to drag her beloved up, but just couldn't get a grip. She ran to call Tarogood for help. According to her, the foreman came yes, but dawdled for half a day. Together they dragged Jones up. By this time, Jeannette arrived as well. They cleared the water out of Jones' lungs, set him on his back, and Janet, a nurse by profession, gave Jones a heart massage. Suddenly, Jeannette felt Brian's feeble grip on her hand. By the time EMS arrived, however, his breathing had stopped.
At two o'clock in the evening, news of Jones' death reached London's Olympic Studios, where members of the Rolling Stones, who were recording the song, were shocked. They dropped what they were doing and fell into silent mourning. Drummer Charlie Watts wept.
Salvation Song
Anna Wallin believes Frank Tharogood killed Brian Jones. She said that twice in the five days after the accident Tarogood had asked her, in a threatening tone, to leave him out of it.
Alfred Hotchner, author of the "Rolling Stone" story, found two people who claimed to have witnessed the murder. Nicholas Fitzgerald, who was close to Jones at the time, came to Jones's place with a friend at about 11 p.m. on July 2nd. A light was on by the pool, and Fitzgerald saw three men in work uniforms by the side of the pool, one of whom was kneeling and holding the head of one of the pool's occupants under water; a man and woman stood at the other end of the pool, who appeared to be giving orders; and then one of the laborers jumped into the water and sat on top of the drowned man. Fitzgerald and his friend were about to stop it when a burly man rushed toward them, scaring them into fleeing.
One of the carpenters who worked on the Joneses' house was interviewed anonymously by Hotchner. According to him, at least two of his fellow carpenters hated Jones, jealous of his wealth and womanizing and disgusted by his arrogant and pompous temper. It was these two carpenters who were at the pool that day. To get back at this employer, they kept him from surfacing.
Anna Wallin testified that years later, Rolling Stone driver Tom Kellock approached Frank Tharogood on his deathbed and had him sign a statement admitting to killing Jones. However, this document was not published. On the night of Jones' death, Rolling Stones spokesman Les Perrin arrived at the scene in a hurry. A few days later he offered Anna Waring a large sum of money to refuse any interviews, which she did not do. But Palin eventually persuaded her to sign a pact promising not to tell reporters anything that would damage Jones' reputation or that of the Stones.
The Stones were scheduled to play a concert on July 5, 1969, in London's Hyde Park. Upon learning of Jones' death, the musicians planned to cancel the show, but Charlie Watts suggested the concert as a way to honor the memory of their former bandmate.
It was a surprisingly hot and muggy day in London, and a quarter of a million people gathered in Hyde Park. The band played the first tune and Tom Kellock released 2,000 white butterflies. However, the hot butterflies barely flew for a while before falling on the heads of the audience. This performance became the biggest failure of the "Rolling Stones" music career.
Five days later, Brian Jones was buried in his hometown of Cheltenham, 120 kilometers from London. Jagger didn't come to the funeral; he had gone to Australia to make a movie. Richards and Anita also didn't show up for the funeral, for reasons that are self-evident.
The Rolling Stones
"Once you get me started, I'll never stop!" That's a line from the Rolling Stones' song "Start Me Up," and it describes the style of the veteran British band. In the 40 years since the 1960s, no other band has dominated the stage for as long as they have (to date, the Stones have played more than 1,800 shows in nearly 100 countries around the world, including hundreds of charity performances), and no other band has had as many storms, storms, and storms as the Stones. "There has never been a band as stormy and scandalous as the Rolling Stones (Brian Jones drowned, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were jailed for "indecent exposure", a fan was killed at an Altamont concert, Bill Wyman left the band ... ...). The Rolling Stones have been touring the world for years, proving that rock 'n' roll is alive and well on stage, and that there's no age limit on rock 'n' roll.