The Stones and Brian Jones

Documentary directed by : Nick Bromfield, writing credits : Nick Bromfield, Marc Hoeferlin, produced by : Dan Braun, Josh Braun, Nick Bromfield, Kyle Gibbon, Shani Hinton, Marc Hoeferlin, Simon Orman, cinematography : Tristan Copeland, Marc Hoeferlin, Sam Mitchell, film editing : Marc Hoeferlin, Jan Lefrançais - Gijzen, music : The Rolling Stones, cast : Nick Bromfield, Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones, Linda Lawrence, Muddy Waters, Andrew Loog Oldham, The Beatles, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, ..., 1h38mn, (2024).

Influenced by the potent African - American Bluesmen the Rolling Stones orignary member Brian Jones looks as the forgotten but today is the documentary topic. The film director Nick Bromfield uses unknown archives editing for showing us Jones life desappointments all over his career. The Rolling Stones members speak few about Brian Jones but they don't stop remembering him. His life wasn't something easy because he grews up inside a rigorist family and must leave school in June 1959 at the age of nineteen after making a child with a girl following studies at the same classroom. Until November 1959 he will travel in Europe living without any money. At the beginning of the 1960's Brian Jones performs in many London bands playing perfectly guitar and there will meet Mick Jagger and Keith Richards two others blues lovers. The three build the first Rolling Stones draft and also lead it. Like the Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman says Jones has created the band, finds the name coming from a Muddy Waters song names "Rollin Stone", chooses the members, the music and also the concerts. But when Andrew Loog Oldham becomes to be the Stones manager it was the beginning of the end. A Rockn' roll band works like an utopia or a primitive tribe where each member are fighting with the others. Inside the uggly music industry the loosers have no safe places and must go away. Andrew Loog Oldham highlights the duet Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the head of the group. All the Brian Jones works aren't accepted and he uses alcohol or drugs for fighting against the bitterness arouses by this injustice. The genius musician from "Aftermath" (1966) and "Their Satanic Majesties Request" (1967) wasn't just the shadow of himself during the 1968 Rockn'roll Circus show. Far from the studios during recording sessions, confrontated to problems involved by private life and under the pression of the manager Brian Jones moves away in June 1969. Totally out he passes away in July 1969 at the age of twenty seven in a very enigmatic way (accident or murder). Mick Jagger will tribute him by telling a poem just before a concert at Central Park (New - York - City) and now Jones belongs definitively to "the club of  the 27" owning artists like him diseappiring younger after knowing the top level.

Brian Jones, the Who, John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the Rockn'roll Circus Show (1968)

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