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.”
SonicI had no idea!
In hindsight, Yuji Naka and Hirohaku Yasuhara almost regretted opting for a local foundry rather than sub-contracting from abroad. During the heatwave of summer 1991, the Yokohama Seitetsujo metal foundry had to keep four teams on the go to meet their deadlines. Over 32 billion brass rings have since been completed in these traditional molds.
When Beck Hansen’s website relaunches in July, one of the new features will be a Record Club wherein the plugged-in sonic chameleon gathers musical pals, covers a classic album in one day, then offers tracks for download.
Which is, well, pretty cool.
“An album will be chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework,” says a statement on Beck.com. “Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track will be uploaded once a week on beck.com as well as through the web sites of those involved in the project.”
Musical cohorts will include folks like Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell, Nigel Godrich and MGMT. The once-named Bek David Campbell and his posse will tackle The Velvet Underground & Nico first. One can only imagine what the surreal “Sunday Morning” or destabilizing “Heroin” will sound like after this crew gets done with them.
Andy Warhol, a repurposing icon, would be proud. Now all this thing needs is an iPhone app and a Twitter feed and it’s mellow gold, baby.
Less than two weeks after retiring as Memphis mayor, Herenton walked into the offices of the Shelby County Election Commission this morning and picked up a petition to run for the office again, election commission officials have just confirmed.Read the rest here.
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has been formally released from prison after being granted freedom on compassionate grounds.Read it all here.
Biggs is severely ill with pneumonia and Justice Secretary Jack Straw approved his release on Thursday after being told he is unlikely to recover.
The Ministry of Justice signed-off on his licence conditions, granting his formal release.
