UK police to review Rolling Stones guitarist death

[Friday on my mind]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090831/ap_on_en_mu/eu_britain_rolling_stones_death

LONDON – British police said Monday they will review the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, whose 1969 drowning was ruled an accident but sparked decades of speculation that he was murdered.

Two 1994 books claimed that Jones was murdered by a London builder who had been hired to help renovate Jones' home: "Paint it Black: The Murder of Brian Jones," by Geoffrey Guiliano and "Who Killed Christopher Robin?" by Terry Rawlings.

Both claimed that builder Frank Thorogood confessed on his deathbed in November 1993 to killing Jones to a road manager for the Stones.

"It was me that did Brian. I just finally snapped," Thorogood reportedly said to road manager Tom Keylock, Rawlings' book quoted Keylock as saying.

It was not clear why British police did not reopen an investigation after those books were published."







I remember Jones as the wildest of the group and they were known to be wild so that is saying something.Wasn't surprising he turned up dead like that so maybe that explains why it was quckly assumed he had just been high or something and foul play was not looked into.

 

[Neutron66]

Nice that they're finally catching up.

Must be one hell of a backlog they have.

 

[Supafly]

Guess there's a new officer who is not afraid of handling Sir Michael Philip Jagger and his band.

I believe they have some part in this, too, exactly what must be found out

 

[Jagger69]

Wow. Great find, FOMM!!

:thumbsup:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Nice that they're finally catching up.

Must be one hell of a backlog they have.

Their Cold Case Squad has just now got around to the case because they finally gave up on the Princes of the Tower case.

 

[Rey C.]

I love the Stones. And to me, Brian Jones (flaws and all) was a rock god. Gimme Shelter will be playing when they chuck me in a hole and send me on my way. But it's been 40 years. They didn't do jack shit about this when he died. So this will end up being nothing more than a meaningless publicity stunt, like the search for the "real" Jack the Ripper and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. Let it go...

 

[YMIHERE]

Brian Jones was a very talented musician. He could learn how to play various musical instruments in a hour or two. You hear him playing the marimbas on Under My Thumb, the flute on Ruby Tuesday and the sitar on Paint it Black. To name a few.

It hard to believe that he got kick out of the Rolling Stones because of to much drugs and alcohol. Wow, I mean how much is too much to get kicked out of the sex, drugs and Rock N Roll Stones in the late sixties. That's like the Pope being canned for being too religious.

 

[gunslingingbird]

When I read the title I thought it was about Keith Richards. Hasn't he been dead for, like, the past 20 years? It's sure looked like it the last 5 times I've seen him. :dunno: