UK - Rolling Stone Brian Jones 1969 death might have been murder

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Another Brian link from today....

Rolling Stones Brian Jones' lover Anna Wohlin claims he was killed in scuffle with minder. (Mirror)

I don't know that much, but it seems there are real problems with Anna Wohlin and her story.

 

[wfgodot]

I don't know that much, but it seems there are real problems with Anna Wohlin and her story.

Such as?

 

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Such as?

Some of her version ... I don't k now if it makes sense to me:

"I don't think Frank meant to kill him, because I don't think he was a killer," she says. "I think it was some sort of horseplay. I think it went too far." Thorogood's behaviour on the night was strange, she says. As Wohlin scrabbled to save Jones, he would do nothing to help. The tragedy sent Wohlin into a deep and long-lasting shock, and she blamed herself for leaving Jones alone with Thorogood while she went to answer the telephone.


"I kept silent all these years because, even if I had friends who [would have] supported me, I was a little bit scared over it. I knew something was very wrong. He didn't die of drowning because he was drunk and drugged, but how could I prove it? I couldn't."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-real-brian-jones-515556.html

I'll have to do more research, but she also claims they got together (as in a couple) in 1969 and that he wanted to marry her. She said she was pregnant with his child and only found out after his death (I thought I read she said 3 months pregnant) and said she had a miscarriage due to the stress. I'm finding it difficult, though not impossible, to believe some of what she writes in her books... that Brian pursued her relentlessly. They were together a couple of months it seems. People are claiming there aren't any pictures of the two together, that the Stones et al had no reason to have a big conspiracy to keep her quiet (they just might not have thought she was that big a part of Brian's life and they already fell out with him anyway) and so on. I get the distinct sense she has sensationalized her relationship to make some money or gain some media attention. Wasn't her first book, The Murder of Brian Jones, just repackaged under the title, The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones" to coincide with the release of "Stoned"?

 

[cluciano63]

Funny that she can't prove anything she claims and she puts it out there in advance.

 

[wfgodot]

Her account does parallel significantly other accounts of the alleged incident - though she interjects herself into the story and becomes a more significant player in her own account.

That is not heard of in autobiographical rememberings. Sells books and Sunday papers.

 

[elmomom]

I wonder if they kick up this story every now and then to sell papers, or to sell the Stones? They bring it up, everyone says, oh look, we should figure this out, and then it goes away again. Brian was a very unlucky man. I have always had a soft spot for him, and even had a TShirt that read Brian Jones Lives on the front and Paul McCartney is Dead on the back. Most folks i knew back then had no clue who Brian Jones was (mid seventies). Such a sad, sad way to end a sad life. RIP Brian, you shall be forever young.

 

[wfgodot]

I wonder if they kick up this story every now and then to sell papers, or to sell the Stones? They bring it up, everyone says, oh look, we should figure this out, and then it goes away again. Brian was a very unlucky man. I have always had a soft spot for him, and even had a TShirt that read Brian Jones Lives on the front and Paul McCartney is Dead on the back. Most folks i knew back then had no clue who Brian Jones was (mid seventies). Such a sad, sad way to end a sad life. RIP Brian, you shall be forever young.

This little reappraisal of Brian's case was researched beforehand, I'm sure, but was timed to coincide with the Stones's first appearance in Hyde Park since two days after Brian's death 44 years ago. A significant tie-in.

 

[kdblaisdell]

Was it 'Up and Down with the Rolling Stones' by Tony Sanchez, a.k.a. Spanish Tony?

I don't think it was (although I will likely check out that one, too). One of these days I'll research and find it.