Brian Jones : The Inside Story Of The Original Rolling Stone

Brian Jones : The Inside Story Of The Original Rolling Stone

Product Description This portrait of the most gifted and tortured member of the Rolling Stones captures the frenetic bisexual energy of London in the sixties and seventies and includes the authors firsthand account of Brian Joness last moments before his violent death From Library Journal Brian Jones, founder of the Rolling Stones, died in a mysterious swimming pool accident in 1969. Four years earli er, Fitzgerald, a starry-eyed 17-year- old and a Guinness family heiras the reader is frequently remindedmet Jones. His reminiscences document the Stones inner tensions, which were fu eled by the competition between Jones and Mick Jagger, who is pictured as the villain of the piece. Jones, by contrast, is portrayed as sensitive, creative, and unappreciated, while his notorious abuse of women and drugs is glossed over. Much of the narrative is more gossipy than revealing, although the ac counts of the Stones performances are first-rate. Joness demise, on the heels of his ouster from the band, provides Fitzgerald an opportunity to hint darkly at a murder conspiracy that seems far fetched at this late date. A more satisfy ing and comprehensive treatment is Mandy Aftels Death of a Rolling Stone ( LJ 9/1/82). Paul G. Feehan, Univ. of Miami Lib., Coral Gables Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.