Who Killed Brian Jones? The Theory Explained | Vinyl Rewind

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Brian Jones added a 'Colour' to The Stones songs that was never to be found again once he left the group.

Brian Jones is the founder, not co-founder.

Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and Brian Jones in a band, that would’ve been the greatest band of all time

"I saw him a few days before he died. He lived down the road from me, the house he lived in was very close to mine. You know I loved him a lot. I could have killed him, the amount of times he was so objectionable. He was a really...he was one of those blokes, man, that you could kill and love. We're talking about a love/hate relationship, I think everyone involved with Brian it was a total love/hate relationship. But my love was always more in excess than the hate."--Charlie Watts

The weirdest thing about the death of Brian Jones is how Mick Jagger and Keith Richards reacted to it. I'm yet to see an interview where they show any sense of sadness or regret. For some reason they've always downplayed his importance in the early Stones.

The coroner's verdict--"death by misadventure"--is often quoted, but something else in the autopsy report almost never is: the fact that there were punctate hemorrhages in Jones's brain. (See top of report at 16:57 in the video.) This sometimes occurs in cases of epilepsy, and Bill Wyman--who roomed with the late guitarist for years on Stones tours--has speculated that Jones was an undiagnosed epileptic. But the hemorrhages may also have been the result of physical trauma. Either way, this detail is nearly always overlooked and deserves more scrutiny.

It's sounds quite bizarre the founder of Rolling Stones and gifted musician has no songwriting credits. Who took the benefits jagger and Richards. The alarm bells should have sound loud and clear. Droning in the pool it's just a smoke screen.

After they got rid of him, the band was never quite as good after

Rest In Peace Brian Jones 1942-1969 such a Good multi-instrumentalist.

I used to be in the music business. I was told by a friend who worked for the Stones in the late 60s that when Tom said Frank had made what turned out to be a deathbed confession, Tom KNEW nobody would ever come forward and say "it was me". There is only one person who would have that confidence.

I’ve always believed that Frank Thorogood killed him. As the TV movie Stoned (required watching if you’re a Rolling Stones fan) shows, Brian owed Frank a lot of money, and Brian either didn’t or couldn’t pay him. Brian also made fun of him as a man that women didn’t want. I believe both of these things caused Frank to snap, and so he drowned Brian out of revenge. Plus, how else would he know where Brian was, if he wasn’t there himself? I realize that not everyone buys into this theory. But to me, it makes the most logical sense. Bottom line: we’ll never know what really happened to cause Brian Jones to enter the 27 Club.

Brian was THE founder of the Rolling Stones. No Brian Jones, no Stones. Brian Jones forever!

Do one about Jimi Hendrix. He was almost certainly murdered by his manager, Michael Jeffrey. Even the ER doctor that pronounced him dead later stated that he thought he was killed. Jimi drowned in red wine but had almost no alcohol in his bloodstream - which means he didn’t get drunk and choke on his own vomit as most people think. He was also only on less than ten sleeping pills - which he already had a very high tolerance to. He was hardly on enough of a dose to OD. His gf also waited a suspiciously long time before calling the ambulance. She later killed herself. He was held down in a chair and drowned by having a wine bottle shoved down his throat. Evidently, Michael Jeffrey later admitted to a former Hendrix roadie that he had Jimi killed. ..and Jimi was telling people before he died that he feared for his life. He was also in the process of being a lawsuit against Jeffrey because of massive embezzlement. I think Jimi and Kurt are both VERY strong cases for murder. They aren’t your average “Tupac and Elvis are still alive” type of conspiracy theories.

I think if Brian was killed it was by accident, whether it was Frank holding him under the water while they were roughhousing or a combination of drugs and alcohol and warm weather and asthma putting Brian to sleep in the pool. Whatever happened, we lost a truly great musician and fashion icon that night. RIP Brian Jones, we love you.

Asthma's a bitch, man. I only started having congestion issues last year at age 31. About a week ago, out of NOWHERE, a tiny bit of phlegm or something just slipped down the wrong pipe, and I couldn't breath for a good 20 or 30 seconds. It was insane. I kept trying to cough and nothing would happen, until eventually it did (thank God). There's no telling what happened to Brian, since none of us were there, but if it were anything like that, I would've been highly skeptical until a few days ago. God bless him, whatever the case may be.

Rolling Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, in his autobiography "Stone Alone" puts forward the conjecture that Brian Jones may have suffered epilepsy possibly explaining his death soon after that swimming pool incident. Because one of Brian's offspring, a girl has epilepsy and the mother has none in her family.

Brian's demise is a mystery. Note to Vinyl Rewind: Geoffrey Guilliano is one of the...if not THE most unreliable, slanderous and sensationalist rock "writers" ever. His books on George Harrison, Macca and Pete Townshend are basically fan fiction..if ever anyone was silly enough to want him as a fan. Having said that, I recall reading a book by a heir of a big company (NF?) that was written maybe in the 70s and 80s (I believe I read it in the late 80s or so) that alleged he was witness to the 3rd person story.

I'm much more familiar with the Beatles and their various stories than I am with the Rolling Stones so this was all new to me and very interesting. Accidental deaths are very common especially where there is water. Looking forward to the video about the "27 Club".

A 100k pay and 20k a year as long as the stones are together thats massive money back in 1969. He was definitely seen off an easy target.