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  Sachs, Dr Albert, 315

  Sal (Keith Richards’ girlfriend), 91

  Satanic Majesties Request (album), 233–34, 257, 260, 271

  ‘Satisfaction,’ 145–46, 161, 195

  Scala, Mim, 229, 250, 251, 269–70, 278–80, 281, 292

  Schlöndorff, Volker, 209, 209–10, 211, 231

  Schneider, Ron, 277–78

  Schneiderman, David, 214–15, 217, 230, 235

  Scott, Keith, 33

  Seaton, Reginald Ethelbert, 261, 263, 265, 294

  Shindig! (tv show), 146, 148

  Shrimpton, Chrissie, 96, 192, 203

  Simon (Jones’ son), 320

  ‘Sister Morphine,’ 303

  skiffle, 20

  Smith, Mike, 100

  Sommerville, Dr Angus, 315

  South, Nick, 308, 309–10

  Spector, Phil, 127, 173

  Squires, Charles, 204–5

  Starr, Ringo, 138

  Stash. See Klossowski, Stash

  Stewart, Ian, 68, 69, 75, 80, 101–2, 128–29, 131, 145, 293

  Sticky Fingers (album), 317–18

  Stodart, Graham, 40

  Stone, Jerry, 316, 333

  Stone Alone (Wyman), 107, 157

  Stoned (film), 329

  Sullivan, Ed, 132

  Sunday Night at the London Palladium (variety show), 211

  ‘Sure I Do,’ 138

  Swingeing London (photo), 248

  Sylvestre, Cleo, 2, 73, 77, 89, 303–4

  ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ 280–81

  Taj Mahal, 298

  Talley, Nedra, 240

  TAMI show (Santa Monica Civic Auditorium), 132–33

  Taylor, Dick, 17, 20, 33–34, 61–62, 64, 70, 73, 75

  Taylor, Mick, 305, 306

  Taylor, Vince, 140–41

  Terry, Sonny, 55

  Thank Your Lucky Stars (tv show), 103

  Thomson, Dave, 128, 139

  Thorogood, Frank, 307, 311–12

  and death of Jones, 315–16, 324, 328–29, 331

  Ticket That Exploded, The (Burroughs), 290

  ‘Time Is On My Side,’ 124, 126

  Times, The, 254

  Toronto Sun, 316, 333–34

  Townshend, Pete, 137, 169, 298–99, 300, 314

  Traffic, 269

  ‘Under My Thumb,’ 186

  Valentine, Hilton, 155–56

  Vyner, Harriet, 181

  Warren, Robert, 213, 214

  Washbourne, Harry, 56

  Waters, Muddy, 126

  Watts, Charlie, 52, 70, 83–84, 115, 306

  Waymouth, Nigel, 180

  Webster, Guy, 133–34

  Welch, Chris, 151–52, 153, 158, 298

  ‘We Love You,’ 233

  Welsh, Alex, 47

  Wheeler, Tom, 13

  White, Mac, 26

  Whitehead, Peter, 166, 167–68, 203–4

  Who Killed Christopher Robin? (Rawlings), 330

  ‘Wild Horses,’ 201

  Wohlin, Anna, 307, 311–13, 324, 331–32

  Murder of Brian Jones, The, 310, 331

  Woodcroft, Carole, 24, 25, 28

  Woolley, Stephen, 329

  Wren, Andy, 68

  Wright, Nicky, 116–18

  Wright, Patrick, 117–18

  Wyman, Bill, 83–84, 107, 115, 129, 139, 155, 157, 257, 258, 303, 313, 318, 335

  ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want,’ 297

  ‘You Got The Silver,’ 300

  Zouzou, 141, 142, 154–55, 159, 306

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Paul Trynka is a respected music writer, known both for his groundbreaking role as editor of MOJO magazine and as author of Starman and Open Up and Bleed, biographies of David Bowie and Iggy Pop which attracted laudatory reviews worldwide. Portrait of the Blues, his collection of oral histories with over sixty blues musicians (a collaboration with photographer Val Wilmer), is regarded as a landmark work. Paul was also editor of the widely respected International Musician magazine, and founding editor of The Guitar Magazine, for which he first interviewed Keith Richards over twenty years ago. Paul lives with his wife, Lucy, and son, Curtis, in Greenwich, London, just down the road from Mick and Keith’s old stomping ground of Dartford.

  For more information on Paul Trynka and his books, visit his website at www.trynka.net

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  ‘A clever bloke’, and a ‘devil’. Brian Jones (left), on the eve of his thirteenth birthday, in February 1955, with Colin Dellar, plus Colin’s cat Hillary and dog Leo, Asquith Road, Cheltenham. Colin was a firm friend, until the pair fell out in 1956, the year Brian turned from an ‘almost priggish’ nerd into a teenage rebel.

  Baby Brian, the oldest child in a family touched by tragedy when sister Pamela died of leukaemia. Her brief existence would become a family secret.

  Brian’s younger sister Barbara (centre, behind rabbit).

  Brian dances at Filby’s basement, a musical refuge from 1957 on.

  Brian still retained some of his dad’s geeky traits, working on restoring trams at Crich, Derbyshire, in 1960.

  Brian with Valerie Corbett, his girlfriend from 1959 to 1960.

  Brian with Valerie, plus her father Ken and brother Derek, probably in the summer of 1959, on the River Avon near Tewkesbury. Val gave birth to Brian’s baby – his second child – the following May, accelerating his estrangement from polite society.

  Brian’s two key musical accomplices in Cheltenham, John Keen (trumpet) and Graham Ride (sax). The trio played together through 1961. ‘Brian was streets ahead of us,’ says Keen. ‘His focus was incredible.’

  Alexis Korner’s pioneering electric blues band, with Cyril Davies on harmonica and Charlie Watts on drums. Korner would be Brian’s key patron, a father figure to the ambitious young bluesman.

  Early Marquee show by ‘The Rollin’ Stones’. ‘There was obviously something about it that would take off,’ says witness Ginger Baker.

  Brian was unquestionably the leader, Baker remembers; but the advent of co-manager Andrew Oldham (shown left, with Brian and Keith), would eventually pit Brian against ‘the cabal’. According to his friend Scott Ross, ‘With that triumvirate against him . . . he didn’t stand a chance’.

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  ‘He would tell all sorts of stories . . . do magic tricks . . . I was transported into another world, another realm,’ recalls Pat Andrews, mother of Julian Mark Anthony, born in October 1961. But Brian could also be ‘conniving . . . a chancer’.

  ‘He was calm . . . deep,’ says Linda Lawrence, mother of Julian, born in July 1964. Linda also remembered Brian’s addiction to risk, to ‘taking things to the edge’.

  ‘Mischievous . . . very, very sensual . . . kind of devilish’. Dawn Molloy became besotted with Brian through 1964. Their baby, Paul Andrew, was born in March 1965; Dawn was forced to give her son up for adoption.

  French actress and singer Zouzou, who stayed in Brian’s Chelsea mews home in 1965. ‘It was very fun . . . but he was up and down very often.’

  Arriving at Kingsway Studio, Holborn, 7 October 1963. Brian carries the sheet music for I Wanna Be Your Man under his arm. He dominated the session, in manager Andrew Oldham’s absence. The single – tough, distorted and aggressive – would form a template for American garage rock.

  Brian Jones the dandy and narcissist, at Beau Gentry, LA, in June 1964. West Coast scenesters considered Brian the premier Stone, exacerbating the band’s internal rivalries. ‘Mick had this jealousy, that a lot of the girls liked Brian rather than Mick,’ remembers one insider.

  May 1965: Brian introduces Howlin’ Wolf to America, the fulfilment of his vision of blues as mainstream music for a white audience, breaking ‘a boundary line which no one thought c
ould be crossed’, says Buddy Guy.

  Clearwater, Florida, 8 or 9 May 1965. Brian had fled the band just days before, his conflicts with Oldham, Mick and Keith ‘beyond any kind of resolution’, says Scott Ross. The stay saw Brian beaten up – and the genesis of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.

  Together, Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg unleashed a thrilling, dark energy, ‘living on a higher plane of decadence than anyone I would ever meet’, says Pete Townshend.

  Rehearsing for Ready Steady Go!, May 1966. Newly empowered, Brian redefined the band’s musical agenda with sitar, marimbas or recorder. ‘I always considered Brian the most gifted of the Stones, musically speaking . . . he could think out of the box,’ says engineer Eddie Kramer.

  August 1966. Brian, the ‘reach-out Stone’, is the first to investigate Morocco, here with Donald Cammell (obscured), Robert Fraser (in shades), Deborah Dixon and Linda Lawrence, at the El Minzah, Tangier. The trip was partly engineered to help Linda ‘move on’, she recalls. Her calming influence was missed.

  The fateful trip to Morocco, March 1967. With friend Akhmed on the Escalier Waller;

  Brian the piper;

  and Michael Cooper’s famous snapshot of Brian at the Es Saadi hotel, as he senses Anita’s imminent defection. Some claimed her departure destroyed Brian; not so, says his friend Stash Klossowski. It was the betrayal by his fellow Stones that was devastating. ‘They didn’t confront him . . . he was simply abandoned.’

  Monterey, June 1967, and a sideways glance from manager Andrew Oldham, himself soon to be surplus to requirements. In the wake of his friends’ betrayal, and his own drugs bust, Brian was upbeat. It wouldn’t last.

  Brian with Stash (to his right) after their bust by Norman Pilcher, 10 May 1967. ‘We thought it was ridiculous, and would all be cleared up,’ says Stash.

  Brian with Anita and director Volker Schlöndorff in Cannes, unveiling Brian’s soundtrack at the premiere of Mord und Totschlag. The ex-lovers’ meeting was ‘cordial’, says one friend, but there was to be no reunion.

  3 August 1967: Brian with Suki Potier, Ossie Clark model and ex-girlfriend of Tara Browne. Ladylike and well mannered, she was incapable of helping Brian, now isolated from his fellow Stones and ‘public enemy number one’.

  At the High Court for his appeal against a drugs conviction, 12 December 1967. His legally advised isolation had by now resulted in ‘absolute despondency’.

  Through 1968 and 1969, Brian invariably sought refuge ‘from the pressure of being a Rolling Stone’. Here he finds peace in Sri Lanka, circa January 1968.

  Retreat to Redlands.

  In the summer of 1968, Brian recaptured the old blues magic – until his second drugs bust, on 21 May, after at least seven police raids. ‘Brian was killed by the establishment,’ says Stash.

  Joujouka, in the Ahl Serif mountains, Morocco – a magical place where Brian was happy, and where he planned his own musical escape route, with Cleo Sylvestre. ‘

  If only I’d pursued it,’ she says today.

  Fadeout: Brian’s last public appearance with the Stones, the disastrous Rock and Roll Circus, December 1968. ‘They were determined not to let him drag them down,’ says Pete Townshend.

  Brian’s father Lewis, mother Louisa, and sister Barbara, with Suki Potier at his funeral.

  Anna Wohlin with Frank Thorogood, the builder she later accused of murdering Brian, even though in the aftermath of his death, says a friend, she thought ‘it was definitely a drowning’.

  Brian’s driver, Tom Keylock, at Brian’s beloved Cotchford Farm. Keylock’s apparent fabrication of a deathbed confession by Frank Thorogood would inspire theories that he himself was responsible. The real story is not so simple.

  The piper who loved Pan, Sri Lanka, January 1968. Demonized by his old bandmates, victimized by the establishment, he nonetheless ‘changed the face of rock’n’roll’.