Half a century on, it remains one of the greatest mysteries in rock history. What really happened to Brian Jones, the ex-Rolling Stone found dead in the swimming pool at his home, Cotchford Farm in Sussex, in 1969?
An inquest recorded death by misadventure, ‘drowning while under the influence of drink and drugs’ at some point over the night of July 2 and morning of July 3.
But the timing of the guitarist’s death, three weeks after he was sacked from the band he founded, has always raised more questions than it answered.
Now an investigative writer who, over 30 years, has re-examined the evidence and interviewed those present is set to unveil a new documentary on the subject. Terry Rawlings says: ‘Brian Jones was murdered, beyond any doubt, and there is a wealth of evidence which says that it was then covered up.’
He says Jones — drunk, paranoid and anguished — was killed by his disgruntled one-eyed, Cockney builder Frank Thorogood in a row over money, and that the murder was covered up by Jones’s former chauffeur-turned-minder, ex-paratrooper Tom Keylock.
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