The Murder of Brian Jones

By Anna Wohlin

Book Overview

Brian Jones has been hailed as one of the truly influential pioneers of modern music. As a founder of the Rolling Stones, Brian's music style and personality made him a star. But his arrest on drugs charges in 1967 sent him into a drink-and-drugs fuelled depression and his life slipped out of control.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857823346
• ISBN13: 9781857823349
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Blake Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Girl Who Tried to Save His Life

Well written testimonial. The lovely Swedish girlfriend of Brian Jone's recalls the evening he was murdered. She confesses her suspicions on the murderer of her boyfriend. Ms. Wohlin recounts that Keith Richards had dumped Mr. Thorogood on Brian Jones and Brian felt very ill at ease with Mr Thorogood. Brian was going to fire him after mr. Thorogood suspended a loose beam on the ceiling which could have killed both Brian and Anna ! Shortly thereafter a get-together with mr Thorogood and Brian and Anna, Brian is found at the bottom of the pool! Anna tried to resuscitate Brian, trying to breAthe life back into him. The Rolling Stone members(except Bill Wyman) kept her away and she was threatened to leave. She did return many years later,The Stones never commented on this and they did ditch him just before Brian's death , she writes. It's a very sad story. Poor Brian,poor Anna.

FASCINATING

This is a fascinating book which is very easy to read.I think its always better to hear a story from a protagonist for although there is undoutably some deviation from the truth,there is a sense of genuine involvment and that is very apparent here. The book describes the authers romantic relationship with Jones during the last few months of his life,although interesting Wohlin does have a habbit of repeating her self and painting too much of a rosy picture of their life together.The book finds a better pace as it approaches the events surrounding the "murder",which she attributes to Frank Throgood a builder who was hired by the Stones management to renovate Jones recently aquired farm house.Another reviewer intelligently says that you have to read between the lines to see the real truth and I would agree,and equally when it comes to Wohlins involvment.She expresses how she felt scared and intimidated,fearing that if she told anyone that she believed Jones was murdered she too would meet the same fate .She very effectivly dipicts the isolated lonely position she was in being "alone in a foreign country"grief stricken and intimidated and this combined with what she perceived as genuine threats from Throgood is why she has presumably not spoken sooner.We are left with the suggestion of a huge conspiracy surrounding the death involving the Rolling Stones Inc who go to great lengths to stop Wohlin from talking,even offering her £100,000 to keep quiet,begging the question "why?"after all the stones had nothing to gain from Jones death "did they?" Eventually some time after the inquest Wohlin finds the courage to tell the police that she is convinced Brian Jones was murdered, they agree something is amiss but advise her for her own wellbeing to leave things as they stand. Taken to its logical conclusion this is a harrowing story of deceit, foulplay corruption and murder .Well done Anna for finding the courage to write it, perhaps your next book could fill in the blanks.

Enchanting

I thought this book was wonderful. I don't know if it proves how Brian died, but it does tell me how he really was in the end. The way Anna described him, was so interesting. He really was down to earth and loved his home. He loved to plant carrots and watch them grow, it gave him such fulfillment that he was lacking in his life. How he enjoyed his music room, and how he loved to eat breakfast with a glass of full fat milk. The way Anna wrote, I felt like I actually was there in the room watching him and I felt like I was in the garden watching him pull his carrots out of the ground to see how much they grew. It was amazing I felt like I was watching Brian thru his window. For me, Anna made Brian happy in his last days and that is what counts. I keep the book by my bedside, and browse thru it constantly, I have read it 3 times already! I love it!

Long time coming but well worth the wait...

This is an excellent book which gives an insight into the last few months of the troubled but charismatic founder member of the Rolling Stones. It shows that Brian Jones had cleaned up his act and was happier than he had been in years until his untimely death at the hands of employees associated with the Stones organisation. A must for all Brian Jones fans.

The Truth is out!

I love this book. It shows that Brian really had his act together at the end. Frank killed him, end of story. Brian was a genuis who got his sanity back. He also was a nice man, with problems, who seemed to have mtured greatly. His death was a loss to music.