Brian Jones The Making of the Rolling Stones by Paul Trynka

By Paul Trynka

For the 1st time, the whole tale of the enigmatic founding father of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the band

Brian Jones used to be the golden boy of the Rolling Stones—the visionary who gave the band its identify and its sound. but he was once a haunted guy, and masses of his short time with the band, sooner than his dying in 1969 on the notorious age of twenty-seven, was once unstable and tragic. a few of the information of the way Jones was once dethroned are renowned, however the complete tale of his downfall remains to be principally untold.

Brian Jones is a forensic, exciting account of Jones's lifestyles which for the 1st time information his pioneering achievements and messy unravelling. With over a hundred and twenty new interviews, Trynka has exposed numerous new revelations and units immediately the tall stories that experience lengthy marred his legacy. Jones's tale is a gripping conflict among creativity and ambition, among self-sabotage and betrayal. It's all the following: the girlfriends, the medication, and a few of the best track of all time.

Victors get to put in writing history—but it's by no means totally actual. the complete, terrific tale of the Rolling Stones can by no means be informed until eventually we disentangle all of the threads, and positioned Brian Jones again within the foreground.

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