28 February 2024

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was born on 28 February 1942,
in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He would have
celebrated his 82th birthday today.

Jones was the founder (in 1962) of one of the biggest rock groups of all time.
He also came up with the band’s name. I wonder if there’s any soul on this
planet who has never heard of The Rolling Stones.

Jones was a multi-instrumentalist, always hungry for new musical ideas and
also the creative stone who wanted the band to take a more adventurous way.
Like the other Stones, except for Charlie Watts, he also was a busy womanizer.

Unfortunately, he lost himself in a destructive amount of drugs and alcohol.
He drowned, under the influence of damaging stuff, in his pool in 1969. He
was only 27.

– PAINT IT BLACK –
With Jones on sitar

– AROUND AND AROUND –
Jones playing his iconic VOX Teardrop Guitar

– Short docu about HIS GUITARS –

BRIAN JONES: Biography

(Image on top: Cover of 2020 documentary Life and Death of Brian Jones)