From the New York Times:
More than 40 years after the guitarist Brian Jones, a founding member of the Rolling Stones, was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, British police have said they will reexamine the case after receiving new information from an investigative journalist, Reuters reported. Jones, a bohemian blues musician who helped create the Rolling Stones in 1962 (and is said to have come up with the group’s name, taken from the Muddy Waters song “Rollin’ Stone Blues”), was found dead on July 3, 1969, at a home in East Sussex that once belonged to A. A. Milne. At that time, Jones had recently left the band, and a coroner’s report gave the official cause for his demise as “death by misadventure,” though subsequent films and books (including “The Murder of Brian Jones” by Anna Wohlin, a girlfriend of Jones who was with him when he died) have suggested that foul play was involved. British officials did not say what new information they had received or who had given it to them. But a spokesman for the Sussex police told Reuters, “These papers will be examined by Sussex Police but it is too early to comment at this time on what the outcome will be.”
Anyone know what the murder claims were/are based on?
5 comments:
I can't remember where I first heard this, but there have been claims that he was drowned by a builder who was renovating his (Jones's) house at the time.
No conspiracy theory implicating the surviving band members? That would make a better story.
No, it was The Beatles.
I can just make out the license plate on that car back there: 21IF.
Uncut did a big article on this that was coincidentally published a couple of months before the film that I think they had some interest in. It had something to do with some shady guy that was doing some work on his house. I would try to dig it up, but my we've still got too much shit in boxes to put forth the effort.
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