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Eyewitness, March 1967: The Rolling Stones Go Mad ln Morocco

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, September 1999

Frenzied orgies, drugs, pneumonia, woman-beating... and that was just Brian Jones. No wonder Keith Richards swiped his "old lady" during the Rolling Stones' Moroccan holiday. ...

Keith Richard Might Run Off With Raquel Welch Tomorrow... But It's Not Very Likely

Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 13 December 1969

KEITH RICHARD, the Rolling Stone with hair that looks like it got half caught in a helicopter propeller and has never fully grown out again, ...

Rock And Reel

Report by Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly, August 2005

As new movies about Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain come to the big screen, Paul Morley trawls through the debris of rock movies past to ...

Drugs, jealousy, Nazi costumes: The harrowing story of Brian Jones, forgotten founder of The Rolling Stones

Retrospective by Jim Farber, The Independent, 30 October 2023

Reckless, objectionable, a genius musician ravaged by drugs and consumed by self-loathing, the Brian Jones brought back to our screens by Nick Broomfield is a ...

Anita Pallenberg: 1967 and all that

Interview by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 27 January 2011

A COUPLE OF years back I interviewed Anita Pallenberg — who celebrated her birthday yesterday — for MOJO magazine. ...

Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 7 September 2020

The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long held a special flame for Brian Jones, ...

Brian Jones: Pop Think-in

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966

CHELTENHAM: A place of many memories. But it's a drag. ...

Obituary: Mr Brian Jones

Obituary by uncredited writer, The Times, 4 July 1969

Former guitarist with the Rolling Stones ...

Rolling Stones: Brian Wants To Swap His Rolls For A Mini!

Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 12 February 1966

A SHRILL whistle cut down a Chelsea mews and Brian Jones appeared at the door of his house. I parked my Volkswagen next to his ...

Master Musicians of Jajouka: Stoned on the best Moroccan

Retrospective by David Toop, The Times, 22 July 1995

Rolling Stone Brian Jones was intoxicated by the music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, says David Toop. Now they are in London. ...

Brian Jones: The Case of the Disappearing Image

Profile by Dawn James, Rave, August 1966

Weird, long-haired, almost mythical — Brian Jones was once the most talked-of and popular Stone. He enjoyed playing the great lover, mingling in London's popland, ...

Brian Jones — The Musician

Obituary by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 12 July 1969

THE DRUGS, THE GIRLS, THE HANG-UPS ARE SUPERFLUOUS TO THIS OBITUARY. LET US REMEMBER HIM FOR WHAT HE WAS... ...

Brian, the Stone in the Headlines

Obituary by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 12 July 1969

BRIAN JONES is dead — and his death in the swimming pool of his Sussex home last week was as dramatic as his last five ...

Obituary: Brian Jones

Obituary by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 9 August 1969

Not just a guitarist for the Rolling Stones, but an embodiment of the music itself. ...

Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg: A Love Story About A Stone

Report by uncredited writer, Rave, February 1966

ROLLING STONE Brian Jones is thinking about getting married. He said so in a recent interview. But, until a few weeks ago, no girl had ...

Brian Jones: 28, February 1944 — 3 July, 1969

Retrospective by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979

Ten Years after his death, a re-appraisal of the life and times of the Rolling Stone who was crushed by success ...

Brian Jones: Death of a Rolling Stone

Retrospective by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2005

Without guitarist BRIAN JONES, there would have been no Rolling Stones. And yet the golden boy of the '60s was also the first rock casualty ...

Brian Jones: The Bittersweet Symphony

Retrospective by Rob Chapman, MOJO, July 1999

Rolling Stones founder, Rolling Stones reject; ruthless controller, helpless passenger; blues obsessive, dabler in the exotic; countercultural networker, paranoid recluse; adored Prince Charming, vicious heartbreaker; ...

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