The Stones and Brian Jones (iPlayer)

For those of us who have read a fair bit about the Stones, this was a bit of a conundrum. The archive footage and structure was excellent but it was, in essence, a Nick Broomfield eulogy to Jones. True, it does mention the dark side of his character (what sort of scumbag feeds his pet dog acid?) but they are just aside comments, writers like Stanley Booth would go far deeper and rightly castigate Jones as a very unpleasant individual indeed. I've never been convinced that he was a major sixties player. If Jagger and Richard's had not stepped up to the plate and wrote all those classics,the Stones would have been no bigger than the likes of Manfred Mann imo.

Good Brian article from Mojo 1999….


www.rob-chapman.com/brian-jones