All language subtitles for Sing alone alive

"Brian was a casualty of
war beetween two generation"
STANLEY BOOTH, BIOGRAPHER

THE STONES
&
BRIAN JONES

A child is a thing to be loved.

A child is the manifestations
of both parents,

and both parents see
themselves in the child.

VOICE OF BRIAN JONES
FOUNDER OF THE ROLLING STONES

The child is part of them.
He is their flesh and blood.

And for good many years, he
is a reflection of their personality.

So when he grows up, one day he's
going to assert his own personality,

which might very well differ
from the personalities

and outlooks of his parents.

Immediately, his parents feel very upset.

You know, they don't see
themselves in him any more.

And when these parents don't see
themselves in him, they feel they've lost him.

HISTORICAL CONSULTANT
BILL WYMAN

But really, he's become
a human being in his own right.

HISTORICAL CO.PRODUCERS
SUZANNE ACCOSTA WYMAN
IAN GRENFELL

Brian's troubled relationship
with his parents

would affect him throughout his life.

BRIAN JONES' VOICE RECREATED BY
FREDDIE FOX

His parents disapproved of his lifestyle.

ADDITION MUSIC BY
NICK LAIRD - CLOWES

They wanted Brian to have
a proper job like his father.

At the age of just 19, he
formed the Rolling Stones.

They were the first of their
kind and drove people crazy

with their long hair and their
contempt for convention and authority.

Let's introduce you Stone
by Stone to the Rolling Stones.

Hello, I'm Mick Jagger.

Charlie Watts.
- Who? - Charlie Watts.

Brian Jones.

Keith Richard.
- Bill Wyman.

On the question of hair, boys,
you're pretty long in the hair.

What's the point of
long hair these days?

I believe it's going out in England
and it's going out in Australia.

.... ?
- You thought of anything different,

like plaiting your hair
or anything like this?

Ha, ha, ha. - We've got
a comedian here, I see.

I believe some of the Eastern States groups
have even suggested that you're effeminate.

What have you got to say about this?
- Well, darling... - Well, we're not, you know.

I met Brian on a train
as a schoolboy, aged 14.

I was surprised how open
and friendly he was,

with a soft spoken middle class accent.

He said he was a train spotter
and this was his favourite line,

The Great Western.

I remember the shock when
hearing he had died tragically

just six years later.

He seemed at the time
to have the world at his feet.

Thank you very much.

# Everybody wants somebody

# Everybody wants somebody

# Everybody needs somebody

# Everybody...

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
I loved Mick and Keith.

BRIAN'S GIRLFREND 1962 - 1964
And Mick always was in awe of Brian.

He absolutely loved him
and I think he wanted to be Brian.

# Everybody wants somebody

BRIAN
# Everybody

# needs somebody...

Cos he had all the girls
and he had all the fan mail.

# Someone to love

# Someone to kiss...

And Mick was trying really hard...

to get girlfriends,
I think, at that time.

# Someone to please

# Sometimes a squeeze...

That was what I remember,
that he was very impressed

with the way that Brian
could just draw women to him.

# I need you, you, you...

To Brian and Keith, it was
like a brother relationship.

I saw Keith so fascinated
with the way Brian played

and Brian showing him
certain guitar things.

# I need you

# Yes, I do...

And so they were
very close. They were all...

rowing together
in this musical journey.

Ladies and gentlemen,

LONDON
it's all about to happen.

LONDON
Let's hear it for
the fantastic Rolling Stones!

# I'm all right

# I'm all right

# I'm all right

# I'm all right

# I'm all right

# Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Come on down

# Come on down

# Come on down...

Brian then, was as popular
and famous as Mick.

He was the heart and
soul of the early Stones.

Yet most people today
haven't even heard of him.

Brian answered most of the fan mail.

"Dear Doreen, many thanks for your letter

"and the great interest
you've shown in the band.

"The band is really an
amalgamation of two bands,

"the one being an R&B band
I formed the year ago

"and the other being a group run by
Mick and Keith in South East London.

"We have, I might add, a habit of
breaking audience attendance records."

VOICE OF BILL WYMAN
In the early days,
who got all the fan mail?

BASS PLAYER
Brian.

The secretaries told me,
"Well, we get about 100 letters.

"About 60 of them are for Brian,

"about 25 are for Mick,
about 10 for Charlie and Keith.

"And there's about the same for you,

you know, and that's it, you know?
"But Brian gets all the fan mail."

He was brilliant, a brilliant musician.

He shocked everybody with
the quality of his playing.

We all dedicated ourselves to the band

and Brian more so than anybody else,
because it was his band in the beginning.

So it meant the world to him
more than it did to the rest of us.

Brian did everything.
He wrote in the music papers.

He discussed things about the origins of
what is actually the blues and what is R&B.

There's all those letters and
things. I've got copies of them.

When Brian advertised for a band,

he chose every single
person to come into his band.

Let's recap on the Rolling Stones.

How did you all get
together in the first place?

Actually, I answered an
advert for a bass player, so...

But the rest of them
got together individually,

in jazz clubs and
formed a sort of a group.

How long ago was that?
- Two years.

And what were you doing when
you answered the advertisement?

Engineering, actually.

And we'll move on now to Brian.

How long have you been with the Rolling
Stones? Are you one of the original members?

Yes, one of the original members.
- What were you doing before you joined?

Well, just sort of bumming around,
waiting for something to happen, really.

I had quite a few jobs and I was
trying to get a band going,

but it was unsuccessful
until I met up with Mick and Keith

and then that was a successful band.

Well, can you think back to your
first engagement? Where was that?

Erm...

Marquee, Oxford Street, London.

And may I ask how much you
got paid for that assignment?

20 quid, which was good, because u months
later, we were still working for 10 quid.

# It's all right

# It's all right, children

# It's all right

# It's all right, children

# It's all right

# Come on around, baby

# Come on around, baby

# Come on around, baby

# Come on around, baby

# Come on around, baby...

Mick used to stand in front of us.

Mick's got the maracas

and the audience just
joining in and all that.

# Do you feel it, baby

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Do you feel it now

# My, my, my...

It just got right into your body
and it was like a tribal gathering.

# All right, all right, all right

# All right, all right, all right

# All right, all right, all right

# All right, all right, all right

# All right, all right, all right.

The blues were everything to Brian.

He saw the Stones as promoting
unknown black blues music.

"Dear Doreen, you raised the point
in your letter about blues material.

"You must appreciate that blues are not
easy to put over to the average club audience.

"They prefer something more
in the twisting and jumping run.

"Once again, thank you for your interest
in rhythm and blues and ourselves.

"It's wonderful music
and deserves more recognition.

"Yours sincerely,
Brian Jones for Rolling Stones."

EDITH GROVE, THE STONES FIRST FLAT
Mick and Keith moved
into the flat that Brian had.

And Brian and Keith slept
in a double bed in the front room

and Mick slept in a very single,
single bed in the middle room.

And then there was a kitchen,
which was a disaster.

And it was a very severe
winter that year, '62,

and we used to give him
shillings to put in the bloody meter

for the one little electric fire.

Brian used to say, "What's
the point of getting out of bed

"when it's so fucking cold?
We might as well stay in bed!"

So they used to get the guitars
and stay in bed and play guitar in bed.

VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS
Luckily, we had nothing else to do.

And since we were down to thieving
potatoes out of supermarkets anyway

and selling beer bottles
back to the off-licence,

there was nothing else to do
except push on, you know, and just...

I mean, it had to get better,
even if it didn't get fantastic.

You know, it was difficult.

But I mean, it was fun too,
since we were determined

that we were going
to stick together and play.

Despite everything,

Brian was always tried
to keep his parents' approval.

"Dear Mum and Dad,
many thanks for your letters

"and a thousand apologies
for not writing back before now.

"Being leader and spokesman for the Stones
means I'm always busy and tied up.

"If it's possible, I would like to
see you next Monday or Tuesday.

"But I warn you, my hair is
pretty long, although not untidy."

"Success seems to be on its way,

"though none of us are
too happy about 'Come On'."

"COME ON"
Composition: Chuck Berry
THE ROLLING STONES' FIRST SINGL

# Everything is wrong since
me and my baby parted

# All day long I'm walking
cos I couldn't get my car started

# Laid off from my job and...

"This record does not do
justice to the group."

Brian would invite his mother
and father to the Stones concerts.

But they never came.

And Brian taught Keith to play with him.

You know, all the linking notes.

"BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY"
Composition: Jimmy Reed
There they go.

See, one's going up and
the other one's coming down.

When one's coming
down, he's going up.

BILL WYMAN
ROLING STONES BASSIST

And it's so beautiful.
It's so perfect what they're doing.

We did a song called Mona,
which is a Bo Diddley song.

And you got... You'll have to
excuse me, that's my bloody...

It's switched itself off
now, thank goodness.

He learned to play
along with the tremolo.

You know, the - doo, doo, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

And in time.

And so you'll hear it on Mona here.

"MONA"
Composition: Bo Diddley

# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.

See? No-one was doing that then.

# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.

But, he was a fucker, you know.
He would be really horrible sometimes.

He had one side of him,
which I have to say was really,

I wouldn't say evil, but he
was really cruel sometimes.

There's photos of us being photographed

and Brian's over the top of me
dropping cigarette ash on my head.

But he used to do things like that.

And not only to me, but to everybody.

He always had to prove himself.
He was embarrassed about his size.

And if he didn't get his way, he
kind of used to get very aggressive

and then he'd be all apologetic
and, "Sorry, man, I didn't mean it."

He'd stubbed that cigarette out on
the back of your hand in the car...

and you'd always forgive him
because he was such a nice, sweet guy.

Brian had immense
opposition from his father.

His dad didn't like him
trying to be a musician.

They just thought, get a proper job.
You know, the same old thing.

Up to a certain point,

LEWIS JONES
Brian was a perfectly normal,

BRIAN'S FATHER
conventional boy,

LEWIS JONES
JET ENGINEER
who was well behaved and was well liked.

Liked, I suppose, because
he was well behaved.

He did his studies and he
was quite a model schoolboy.

And then there came this
peculiar change in his early teens,

at the time, I suppose,
he began to become a man,

where he began to get
some resentment of authority.

It was a rebellion
against parental authority

and it was certainly a rebellion
against the school authority.

He often used to say, why should
he do something he was told

just because the person
who was telling him was older?

From being an A grade
student, Brian rebelled.

BRIAN JONES
He failed in his studies,

and put all his energy into music

CHELTENHAM GRAMMARY SCHOOL
and picking up girls.

VOICE OF ROGER LIMB
He played occasionally
clarinet in the school orchestra,

BRIAN'S SCHOOLMATE
but Brian was not really interested
in anything else at the school.

Not in athletics.
Not in any sports.

Not in the cadet force,

not in debating societies
or anything like that.

He kept himself to himself
quite a bit at school, I would say.

In the beginning of the
'60s, it was one society,

just this mono culture, and it was
our generation who went beyond that.

VOICE OF BARRY MILES
BRIAN'S FRIEND

It's a level of sort of
middle class tightness,

which you don't possibly
see so much any more.

He had a pretty bad
relationship with his parents,

who were very respectable,
very straight, very posh.

But he used to say
he just couldn't stand it.

The problem with Brian was that he
came from a very, very bourgeois family...

who saw themselves as better
than the neighbours

and better than this
and better than that.

BRIAN'S MOTHER WAS A PIANO TEACHER

Brian's parents, his
mother, was a Welsh Baptist.

VOICE OF PAT ANDREWS
The mother was very rigit.

GIRLFRIEND 1961 - 1962
MOTHER TO BRIAN'S SON MARK
There was no fun, no laughter.

I'm sure his mother loved him.

But I just think that...
she didn't know how.

VOICE OF LEWIS JONES
All the time, his fanaticism for

jazz music was coming to the fore.

It was a great disappointment to us
and a source of considerable anxiety

when he became so wrapped
up in his love of jazz music, that

in spite of everything we could
do or say... he went off and did it.

# Wop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bom-bom

FILBY'S JAZZ CLUB
# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

BRIAN AGED 16 WORKED THE DOOR
# Tutti frutti, woo

# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

# Awop-bop-a-loo-mop
alop-bom-bom...

According to Brian, his parents

VOICE OF GRAHAM RIDE
they didn't like him playing jazz.

BRIAN'S FRIEND
They thought it was, you know

a degraded form of music.

The fact that things were
becoming more rebellious.

We favored Black music.
We favored the underdog.

# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

BRIAN MET HIS FIRST GIRLFRIEND
# Tutti frutti, woo

VALERIE CORBETT, AT THE CLUB
# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti

# Tutti frutti, oh Rutti...

Frustrated by his parents' disapproval,

Brian adopted Val's family

VAL CORBETT
and spent all his time
playing blues music.

GIRLFRIEND, MOTHER BRIAN'S FIRST CHILD
Val Corbett, yes, I knew her very well.

BRIAN AND VALERIE
BOTH AGE 16

VOICE OF ROGER LIMB
She was rather stylish

BRIAN'S SCHOOLMATE
and I thought she was rather nice.

Brian was quite besotted with her

and she, of course,
was besotted with him.

Anyway, they were obviously
made for each other.

The next thing we heard
was that Val was pregnant

and she at first was terribly pleased

because she and Brian
were going to leave Cheltenham,

go and live in London
and get a place together.

And suddenly it dawned on her
that wasn't going to happen.

VOICE OF GRAHAM RIDE
He did offer to marry her.

BRIAN'S FRIEND
He did offer to marry her.

But her parents,
her mother in particular,

wouldn't allow it to happen.

We know, those days... the parents
ruled the roost, didn't they?

They sent you iff to a
nursing home somewhere.

VAL AND BRIAN'S CHILD
WAS GIVEN UP FOR ADOPTION

BRIAN'S HOUSE
On December the 22nd, 1960,

Brian, aged 17, was
kicked out of his home.

His father would later refer to this as

"my most drastic of all actions,

"which I shall never forget
or cease to worry over."

VOICE OF PAT ANDREWS
And there was Brian's
suitcase in the driveway.

GIRLFRIEND 1961 - 1962
It was really sad night.

He had asked me to help him
to get his clothes and stuff out.

But lucky I got, as I said -

My sister at that particular
time had a spare room.

He had a grear time
at my sister's.

Brian, now rejected by his parents,

PAT ANDREWS, AGE 20
moved in with Pat and her sister, Betty,

WITH BRIAN'S SON JULIAN MARK
and was looked after by their parents.

This became a pattern
of Brian's behaviour -

adopting other families, getting the
daughters pregnant and then leaving.

This would happen at least five times.

Do you feel bitter at all?

I'm not actually bitter.

I feel quite sorry for Brian in a way,

because the kind of person he is,

you can never be happy,
could never have true friends.

The only friends he has probably
like him because of what he is.

I think if he was turned out on to the
streets, nobody would want to know Brian.

He's not the kind of
person that you take to

because he's so cynical.

He's got no feelings for anybody.

He just uses people for his own good.

And when he's finished,
he throws them aside.

So I just feel sorry for him.

Brian's own life mirrored
the rebellious spirit of the Stones

more than any other member.

Expelled from two schools.
Thrown out of his home.

A reckless personal life.
The blues was Brian's salvation.

It was probably his flaws...

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
that were driving him

AUTHOR "SYMPATTHY FOR THE DEVIL"
to escape from Cheltenham,
family life, wherever

And then that music is
going to be his vehiclw.

The toughest Chicago music.

Elmore James.
Robert Johnson.

Muddy Waters.

MUDDY WATERS
# Oh, a child's coming

# He's going to be,
going to be a rollin' stone

"ROLLIN' STONE" INSPIRED BRIAN'S
NAMING OF THE GROUP
# He's going to be a rollin' stone...

So that atonal, bluesy, harmonic
structure if all the Stones, in fact

that came from Brian.

And then the edginess
of the sound, that was Brian.

# Well, I feel

# Yes, I feel.

It certainly is true that for loada
and loads of American teenagers

they didn't really kniw about
the blues before the Stones.

That was a really key
moment in Brian's trajectory.

Introducing that stuff to Americans.

Tell us something about him, Brian.

When we started playing together,

we started playing because
we wanted to play rhythm and blues.

And Howlin' Wolf was one
of our greatest idols.

And it's a great pleasure to finally be booked
on this show tonight... - Thanks to Howlin' Wolf.

So I think it's about time you shut
up and we had Howlin' Wolf onstage.

I agree! Let's get him on.
Howlin' Wolf!

It was a huge deal for those guys

because they'd just
never really been on TV.

To be there are peak time in
America, that was an incredibly big deal.

# How many more years

# Have I got to let
you dog me around?

# How many more years

# Have I got to let you
dog me around?

It's an incredible moment
and there are still people

who put it as one of the
greatest TV moments of the 1960s.

There's a great period
in the first couple of years

where he seemed to have real insight.

And I'm talking about 1961, 1962.

# I'll try to show it
if you're driving me back

# Your love for me
has got to be real

# For you to know just how I feel

# Love for real
and not fade away...

So you worked out both the keys
of open tunings of blues,

which is D slash E,
which is open D or E,

which is Elmore James,
and he was open G,

which is Muddy Waters
and Robert Johnson.

# I'm going to tell you
how it's going to be

# You're going to
give your love to me

# Love to last
more than one day...

So what did we do
for the 5th single?

We wanted to do a blues
and everybody said,

"Don't do it because
you'll destroy your career.

"No-one's ever done a blues
record for a single in England."

You know, it's the worst thing.
Like they said to Ray Charles,

"Don't do a country album
because it will destroy you."

And it was the greatest
thing he ever did.

Well, when we did Little Red Rooster...

they said, you know,
"You're going to kill yourself."

It came out on the Friday and
on the Monday it was number 1.

And Brian...

controlled the whole
band. I'll start again.

That's Brian with a slide.

"LITTLE RED ROOSTER"
Composition: Willie Dixon

See, he's doing it.

# I am the little red rooster...

What is anybody else doing?

# Too lazy to crow for day

See, he's making the song.

# Everybody wants somebody

# Everybody needs somebody

# To love...

So we were completely unique.

# Someone to kiss

# Oh, yeah

# Sometimes a miss

# Someone to please

# And sometimes a squeeze

# I need you, you, you

# I need you, you, you

# I need you...

Bo Diddley couldn't
believe how good we were.

# You, you, you

# Sometimes I feel like

# I get a little sad inside

# When my baby mistreats me

# I kind of get a little bit mad

# I need you...

Rolling Stones!
Rolling Stones! Rolling Stones!

We were in a bloody
tornado all the time.

The band in 1963
played over 300 gigs.

When you'd come on stage, the whole
crowd would just pour forward.

# Oh, Carol, don't let him
steal your heart away

# I'm going to learn to dance
if it takes me all night and day

# Climb into my machine
so we can groove on out

# I know some swinging little joint
where we can jump and shout

# It's not too far back...

There was rioting
whenever the Stones played.

It was an outpouring of
emotion against the authorities

and the traditional
ways of doing things.

# A little cutie takes your hat
and you can thank her ma'am...

The way the Stones looked and dressed,

their hair and sexuality,
was a whole new feeling.

Everyone fancied both Brian
and Mick, both male and female.

They had this extraordinary
androgynous quality.

# I'm going to learn to dance if
it takes me all night and day...

Brian met Linda Lawrence in 1962
and was adopted into her family.

I only saw him.

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
Yeah, and heard him.

GIRLFRIEND 1962 - 1964,
MOTHER OF BRIAN'S SON JULIAN
The sound was what I was connecting to

and it was the harmonica
and the slide guitar.

The first time I'd ever
heard that kind of music

or felt that kind of feeling,
it was just... just amazing.

Yeah, a whole feeling came
over me that I'd never felt before.

# My days are pretty rough

# I want you to come back,
come back, come back...

LINDA AND BRIAN IN 1963
It was instant.

BRIAN 21, LINDA 17
Like, if you can call it love.

At the time, I wouldn't have known
what that was, but now I do.

There was a point
that came where he said,

"Can I come stay with you in
Windsor with your parents?"

And I said, "Yeah."

Yeah, my parents loved him.

# Somebody stop this pain in my heart

# My, my, my, my, my, my

# Don't you know, one day

# My days are pretty rough

# Won't you love me?

# Love me.

Most of the time it
was all about music

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
and what records he's going to get.

And how he was going
to play this and, you know...

And I would often put
the records on over and over again

so that he could get
the riffs and things.

Put it back on and have
a listen and get the sound.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Seeing them get more
and more popular

and more and more people coming
to see them... it was very exciting.

And we got very,
very much in love.

How do you feel, when
you ger all these girls

screaming and shouting?
- It's great.

VOICE OF BRIAN JONES
Girls screamibg at a concert
and not somebody else.

You feel a personal pride.

When we toched down in
Sydney, we had a riot at the airport.

There were about
10.000 kids there.

And they just went mad, and
they wrecked the airport building.

Brian! Brian!

He was loved by so many
people. I didn't mind that.

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
I knew he loved me, so I didn't care.

And I knew we were young.
I just knew he loved me.

And I... I felt like it's Ok.

You know, he'll be back.

We were excited, because
we didn't think, raelly

we didn't know much about Australia.
How big we were, or how small we were.

I was knocked out. I mean, the
girls, lisren to that, they're wild.

You know, we're knocked
out, we really are.

Are you used to this
kind of reception, then?

Yeah, we're used to it, but we're not...
you know, we weren't expecting it in Australia

because we didn't think
we were very well-known.

Well, apparently,
you're rather well-known

First of all, let's go
with somw of the numbers.

How did all this start?

Uh, well, we just met each other
in jazz clubs in London, 3 years ago.

Brian's rivalry with Mick for
leadership of the Stones was growing.

Mick was the natural frontman

and Brian's insecurity played into this.

A visible friction grew up between them.

It began to dominate Brian's thinking.

You know, we're not traying
to create anything, you know

We're just acting like
we always have done.

How would you describe
the type of music you play?

Many people have tried to describe
it, how do you describe it yourself?

Well, I suppose it's rhythm and blues,
if you want to call in anything, you know

Rhythm and blues or blues.

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
Brian sent me to a modelling course

LINDA MODELING IN 1963
for a little while in London

and I had taken the hairdressing course.

So I was really into
hair and I was saying,

"Just grow your hair,
don't cut it", you know.

And then when it did get
quite long, I would trim it,

but not cut it, and make that shape.

He was like a gentleman.

He was all dressed in
his white shirt and his jacket

and he was open doors.

It was that kind of... very
gentlemanly and gentle spoken.

He had a family, obviously.

And after a while, we drove down.
He wanted me to meet his parents.

And I know he didn't take many
people down to meet his parents,

so I knew it was something special.

Did you feel that Brian cared
a lot what his parents thought?

Oh, very much.

That was the whole thing,
that he really did want them

to like what he was doing
and, you know, be proud of him.

That was the whole point,
I think, of us going there.

They wanted him to
have a different career.

Something more like what his father
had been doing - a good paying job.

But Brian kind of saw that and he
kind of rebelled and stepped out of it.

# I warned you baby
from time to time

# You don't listen
so pay me no mind

# About moving on

# Yeah, I'm moving on...

We became the love generation

and the music was
going to be the opening.

# Mister Engineer
with your throttle in hand

# Take me back to that Southern land

# It's called moving

# Keep a rolling on

# You're flying too high

# For my old sky
I'll move on.

VOICE OF MELISSA NORTH
We were just coming
out of this 1950s thing.

ARTIST AND ASSISTANT TI JIMI HENDRIX
You know? We were excited about everything.

The bands came to London,
and the girls came for the bands

and then they were getting
away from their parents.

Everything their parents said they
should do they wanted to do the opposite

Quite right, too.

They'd all use to
hang out at the... what is called?

The cafe on Denmark Street
where all the musicians went.

Just standing around waiting
for Brian Jones, you know, whoever.

It was awful,
these probation offixers.

I'm not saying, one probation officer,
there had ro be flocks of them.

I had to kind od deal with them. They' say,
"Her parents are very worried and she..."

"Her parents say she
left in a pink miniskirt,"

and "have you seen her?"

But i wasn't going to tell
the probation officers

and tell their parents, because
you know, they wanted a different life.

Dawn Molloy was the
mother of Brian's 5th child.

DAWN MOLLOY
I was 18.

GIRLFRIEND 1964, MOTHER OF BRIAN'S SON JOHN
I don't think I'd ever
been in love before.

Every time I saw him,
my heart skipped a beat.

And every time we saw me, he...
It was obvious that he wanted me.

Being a Catholic, I
was very... inhibited.

He kind of got that out of me.

Not to be ashamed of my
body and what I could do.

He was very, very sexy.

Yeah, the way he made love,
he just was insatiable.

WHEN DAWN WAS 18, BRIAN WAS 22
He made me feel...

..amazing.

He just made me feel...

..loved and special.

He was an amazing teacher

of how you should
make love to a woman.

My parents, they had
such a thing against...

long-haired pop stars.

"Oh, this music's no good."

You know how it is.
They didn't want any of it.

I never dreamed
he'd come to our apartment.

There he was, on the doorstep.

"Good evening, Mrs Malloy."
And kissed her hand.

I mean, who does that?

It's just...

He had suave.

They liked him in the end.

Then my mum said, "Well, why
don't you go down to your bedroom?

"Show Brian your bedroom."

# I'm going to tell you
how it's going to be...

And then he turned around and asked
my parents if he could take me on tour.

There's no way my dad
is going to let me go.

But my dad said,

"Well, you know, as long
as you're in a different room

"and you take
care of her, it's Ok."

The security wasn't around,

so you could just walk into a hotel
and the girls were everywhere.

We went to our room
and there's this girl there

and she's just sitting
on the bed stark naked.

And then we went into the
bathroom and there's another one.

And they're willing to
give everything to them.

The police had no idea what hit them.
They were completely taken by surprise.

And it was terrifying.

I could see all their feet,
trampling on people in stiletto heels,

going for his arms and stuff.
I thought I was going to die.

It was like being in a tube
train and you can't move.

I think Mick lost some hair.

They pulled... Literally
pulled hair out of his head.

And I started to fall back
and I fell back and Mick caught me.

Brian was looking for me,
so he came around the corner

and saw me in the arms of Mick.

And then...

..Brian lost it.

"Keep your hands off my fucking girl!
You're not having all my girlfriends!"

And all that kind of stuff.

Mick said, "Hey, I'm just holding
her, you know. She just fell.

"Don't be a dick", you know?

And then Bill said,
"Yeah, sometimes you get like that.

"You just have to leave him,
he'll be fine."

Everybody went through their...

VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS
star trip, you know.

And I think Brian was
the only one that it changed

in a really deep way, and
probably not for the better.

It was very difficult
for him, you know,

and not made any easier probably
by the rest of us, you know,

because nobody had the time
to look after somebody else.

If one of them isn't quite strong
enough to deal with that situation

there's very little
you can do to help him.

They were all a little
wary, I think, of Brian

VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY
because he could be kind of moody.

But I think they put that on him

because he was
supposed to be the leader

and he was no
longer the leader.

Mick ruled the roost as far
as what they were going to play

and the fact that he could
write music and Brian couldn't.

I think there may have
been a little jealousy there.

The fact that Mick
and Keith were so close.

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# I feel all right

# I feel all right, children...

ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM
MANAGER

I think they were a little bit
lost until Andrew came along.

And then Andrew kind
of laid down the law

and said what he wanted
to do, which was all very well.

And I thought that was a
good idea to have a manager,

but I don't think Brian realised

that he would be handing
everything over to him.

"LITLLE RED ROOSTER"
BRIAN JONES PLAY SLIDE GUITAR

They had two different ideas
of what they wanted to do.

Brian loved Howlin' Wolf and he
wanted to stay as a blues group.

Andrew wanted them to be pop.

And I think Andrew and
Brian just didn't hit it off.

And I think they just
got into loggerheads.

Pop sold.

And obviously Andrew
wanted to make money.

Thank you.

"Dear Melinda,

"Mick is the head of the group.

"At one time I was,
but Mick took over.

"Don't ask me why. We just
thought it would be better,

"as he is a good leader.

"Mick's birthday was
on the 26th of July.

"I must rush, dear, honestly.

"Brian Jones."

I guess he was a little jealous
of Mick because he was...

VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY
He had all the fame sort of thing.

But I don't think Brian realised
that he had just as much too.

# Oh, Carol

# Don't let him steal your heart away

# I'm gonna learn to dance

# If it takes me all night and day

# Climb into my machine
so we can groove on out...

I think he would've liked
to have been like Mick,

VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY
but then no-one's like Mick.

He has this charisma about
him, he has amazing energy.

# A little cutie takes your hat
and you can thank her, ma'am...

I understand, Brian, because
I think he was a lost person.

The success of the Stones
was unbelievable.

But at a time when Brian
could have celebrated

the success of the
band he had founded,

he was locked in conflict
with problems of his own creation.

The reason I found out about
Linda was because I was told

VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY
to go to Torquay.

And then Stu told me, no,
I couldn't go in and see him

because Linda was there with the baby.

I'm like, "What... whose baby?",
you know? He said, "Well, Brian's."

# Well, you know my lovin'
not fade away...

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
Fame is a very strange thing.

WITH BRIAN'S SON JULIAN

And he wanted that as well.

And so that was the
choice he had to make.

And... and he did.

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
I was at all the gigs.

The other girlfriends
weren't allowed to come,

but I would always be at the gig.

The last one that I
was at before I had Julian

was the Bo Diddley concert.

# Hey, Bo Diddley
- Hey, Bo Diddley

# Hey, Bo Diddley
- Hey, Bo Diddley

# Hey, Bo Diddley
- Hey, Bo Diddley

# Hey, Bo Diddley
- Hey, Bo Diddley

# I got a girl lived on a hill
- Hey, Bo Diddley...

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
I bonded so well with Bo Diddley

and it was all fantastic.

They thought that Brian
and I were getting married.

I thought we were getting married.

LINDA AND BO DIDDLEY

So it was a bit of a shock when
Andrew Oldham came in and said,

"You can't have girlfriends and
wives and, you know, it's..."

Because I knew that he loved me
and it was really hard to understand.

And I kept saying to myself,
"Well, I have to let go

"and he'll be back."

And my dad, when he left, said,

"And there's no-one
to look after him now."

Brian tormented himself because he
couldn't write songs like Mick and Keith,

whose compositions had moved
the band on to a whole new level.

Say hi to Brian.

Brian is one of the writers
of most of the things, right?

No, I'm not, actually...
Well, I'm not really a writer.

Ah, we do write a
lot of stuff together -

it comes out under the
Nanker Phelge pseudonym -

but Mick and Keith write
more... many - Thank you, Bill.

They're a little more industrious
than we are.

In writing the songs that you write,
do you sometimes think that you have

a special inspiration for
the way that you...

Well, you'd better ask - about
writing songs - better address those

questions to Mick and Keith
because they'll tell me more about it.

But the ones we've
written together

are just things we've worked
out together in the studio,

with somebody, you know,
anyone had right idea.

If you had to do
it all over again, do you think

you'd go the same route again?
As far as, you know, now that you

realise the demands that are put
on you as a tremendous success?

I'd do it 100 times over,
if I could. I love it.

Good. Thank you so much.

Let me swing over here and talk
to Keith and to Mick.

These are the two that are
supposed to be all the writing talent.

You fellows get together and
do most of the writing, right?

Yeah, that's right. A lot of it.
You know, some of it.

Do you have a particular inspiration
for some of your songs that seem

to springboard them out?

Well, I don't know. Ask Keith.

I don't really think so, no.

It just happens, you know?
It just happens.

VOICE OF MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG
Mick and Keith are wonderful songwriters.

CREATOR OF READY STEDY GO
I mean, they're just great.

Extraordinary.

I mean, I couldn't admire them more.

They tended to write
more about sex.

So from '64, '84...

Like, for 20 years they
were just turning them out.

I mean, they're classic
rock and roll songs.

I'd rate it as extraordinary.

VOICE OF BILL WYMAN
You see, the trouble was by 1963,

when Mick and Keith were
writing the songs and all that,

Andrew was trying to promote Keith

and kind of dismiss Brian,
get Brian out of the way.

And so what he did was
he stopped me, Charlie and Brian

from doing any interviews with any
of the newspapers, any interviews at all,

and gave them all
to Mick and Keith.

And I think when we
talked on the phone ages ago,

you mentioned that he did
something with Jimi Hendrix.

Yes.
- Some play. - Yeah.

No-one knows that.

What do I say?

BRIAN AND JIM PLAYING

BRIAN AND JIMI OFTEN
PLAYED TOGETHER

And I got Brian trying to
write a song with that guy,

Michael Aldred, of Ready Steady Go!

But they're unique things that
I just happened to get, and...

they shouldn't be...
- Was the song good?

Yeah, they were putting a song
together. It was OK, yeah.

But he never had
the courage to record it.

BRIAN RECORDING WITH MICHAEL ALDRED
Oh, fucking hell, turn it off!

# So far away

# like an angel

# drifting through the
halls of stars unknown

# I know all her likes and
dislikes, her story of succes

No. It's difficult...
- Oh, let's get...

Bleurgh!

He never played me a song he'd written,

so it was quite hard to know

VOICE OF MICK JAGGER
really if he wanted to do
songs with us that he'd written.

I think he did, but he
was very shy and all that,

I think he found it rather hard
to lay it down to us, you know,

that "This was a song
and "it went like this."

And we probably sort of didn't even
think - because he didn't do it,

we didn't try and bring
it out of him, probably,

which was... I suppose
a bit insensitive of us.

ZOUZOU
GIRLFRIEND 1965

I arrived to New Year's Eve

it was awful because his
girlfriend, Linda Lawrence, was still there.

And that's how it started.

Yeah. I think we
we look good together, yeah.

And I think he always tried to
have girls who look a bit like him.

You know.

I had my hair cut
like him, you know.

He didn't like himself, and
at the same time he wanted

to have people who
looked like himself.

Which is quite strange, again.

He was playing guitar at home,

but he was not really composing,
because I think he was not sure of himself.

He wasn't sure that it was right

He wasn't sure that what
he was doing was good.

And jet he had nobody
around to tell him to do it.

I thought it was really funny
I never listened to obe album

of the Rolling Stones
in Brian's place. Never.

You know, Brian was
completely fan of the Beatles.

I mean, all day long we
were listenig the Beatles.

Or the Righteous Brothers.

But, never, never,
never The Rolling Stones.

BRIAN PLAYED ON THE BEATLES'
"YOU KNOW MY NAME"
Composition: John Lennon / Paul McCaetney

Brian was really nervous that night,
'cause he's walking in on Beatles session.

And I kinda though he'd
bring a guitar, you know

VOICE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY
But no, he brought his saxophone.

He wad nervous to the
point of ahaking a little bit.

He was like a topey sax player.

So I go, "Aha!
We've got just the tune."

He was very nice.

Brian was a very nice guy.

I remember sort of laughing a lot
with him, you know, giggling a lot.

VOICE OF ZOUZOU
The only person of the group

who came to visit him was Bill.

I never, never, never see Mick
or Keith coming to visit him.

Never, never, never.

VOICE OF BARRY MILES
Each member of the band had a had a court.

And the way the hierarchy worked
was the Stones would always

have to go to the Beatles' places.

So the Beatles would
never go to their house.

You know, that was
the order of things,

a very strict class system at work.

in his big chauffeur-driven car

where we had a loudspeaker
mounted underneatg the car,

And aheas of us was
Brian's Austin Princess.

John got on the mic, "Pull
over now, you're under arrest."

"Brian Jones, pull ocer, now!"

"Oh my god!! Shitting gimself,
you know. - "Oh, holy shit."

And we'rw going, "Ohhh, fuck off!

Brian was a very nice
guy, he was very nervous.

Had always a sort
of pleasent word.

He was doing so many
stupid things all the time.

And I was also taking the same
shut with him, you know. Speed.

And we didn't sleep for
days and says and says

and once a week we
were sleeping one night

and then again and again and
again, clubs and everything, you know.

You know, all night
long, all day long.

He was also having
breakdowns very often,

he was craying at night, he was...

I mean, yeah. He was really...

He was, uh... he wonted
to have, uh, his, uh...

things, you know, here. To....

He wanted to go
to a clinic to be...

yeah, and I was... - Trayed
to have a facelift? - Yeah.

I was telling Brian, "You're only 24 years old,
yoz're not going to start now", you know.

"It's ridiculous, you shoud
just drink a little bir less."

Because he was drinking from the

morning to the last
minute in the night.

He was drinking scotch Coke.

Scotch Coke all day, all night.
All the time, you know.

He was never drunk, because with the
speed, you know, didn't make him drunk.

Bur he was really doing every
stupid thing you can imagine.

I think he was not so happy.

I think he was sort of sad, and I think
also that when he was crying at night

and that all those things
were only symptoms.

He was worried of so
many people looking at him.

You know, Brian was much
more happy when he was alone.

I think he liked drinking and I think he liked
drugs but they weren't very good for him.

VOICE OF CHARLIE WATTS

I don't think they're good
for anyone, but he didn't...

He wasn't strong enough, mentally
or physically, to take any of it.

And of course he did everything...

Brian was one of those people
that did everything to excess.

VOICE OF BILL WYMAN
We were in Clearwater, Florida.

Me and Brian picked up
these two girls in the coctail ba.

Cute, two cute girls.
We went to bed with them.

Strange as it was, the very same night
Keith wrote the basics of "Satisfaction"

he says, in Clearwater, Florida.

You know, at nighttime
he woke up with that

with the idea of "Satisfaction". Can't
get no - da, da, da, Satisfaction

And when he woke up in the morning,
and listened to it and all that

him and Mick

thought it was a pretty
okey song for an album.

And then it became this
classic fucking track, you know.

They're going da-da, da-da-daaa

and I'm going dun-dun
dee-deedle-eeee-dee

So Brian just played the
walking rhythm behind him.

And it kinda worked.

And remember, no matter
what anyone says... rock on.

# I can't get no satisfaction

# I can't get no satisfaction...

Whenever he put "Satisfaction"

VOICE OF ZOUZOU
he was going mad. Mad man.

He was telling that Mick
and Keith writing shit

and he couldn't stand
the music they were doing.

He said, "It's not
the music I wanted to do".

"I made a group to do
some blues and rock & roll".

And, you know, he said

"Look at this, it's vulgar, it's
awful, it's out of tune, it's nothing."

The trouble with Brian was

VOICE OF BILL WYMAN
he wasn't very well a lot of the time.

So he was often ill.

We'd be on tour and Brian
would get sick, and he'd be in

hospital for five days
and we had to play without him.

Just the four of us, you know.

Bass, drum, guitar.

And you're playing all them songs
that need more than one guitar,

and you've only got one guitar.

So I had to double-up
on bass, the bass playing,

and help Keith out, you know,

and Keith had to play a bit more
than he would normally play,

playing partly rhythm, partly lead.

It was tough, you know.

So he was very unreliable at
times in the later period of his life.

You know, the last...
maybe three years.

Brian used to get very paranoid
about being made fun of.

You know, he always said, "They're
talking about me and they're..."

You know, when we were waiting in a...

When we were staying
over in a hotel or something.

Mick and Keith would
always tease him

It was like any
group of guys.

RONNI SCHNEIDER, US TOUR MANAGER
The classic example that I had of
that was at the hotel in New York

when Dylan was coming to visit him.

You know, he was
very friendly with Dylan.

So Mick and Keith - Brian's
room was next to mine,

so Mick and Keith
came into my room.

They said, "Oh...",
and they were very devilish.

And Keith goes over and
grabs a water glass that I had,

and he puts it against the wall so
he could listen in to Brian's room.

And Mick goes over to the house
telephone, my phone in the room,

and calls Brian's room.

And then immediately
he says, "Hello, Mr Jones.

"You have Mr Zimmerman
for Mr Jones."

And he was imitating
putting Dylan on the phone.

And then when he was on the
phone, he says, "Oh, Brian, I think

"you're the best guy
in the group," that kind of...

And Brian's like, "Shut up,
you guys! I know you're..."

And that was the kind
of stuff that was going on.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
MICK'S GIRLFRIEND

# Show me the train...

Already there had
been shit going on.

VOICE OF MARIANNE FAITHFULL
You know, Brian was in very bad shape.

He couldn't get into the States.

And they didn't know what to do,
and this and that and the other,

you know, of just
scrambling all the way along.

It wasn't as bad as
it was going to get later.

TALKING WITH HER BIOGRAPHER DAVID DALTON
Well, I read an interesting
thing Keith said about this,

that they started making fun of
Brian so as not to get mad at him.

Ah! - Because
it was a way...

But I mean, of course,
for somebody who's paranoid,

this is just about the
worst thing you can do.

But I mean that was
Mick and Keith's, apparently,

attitude to this thing, you know?

Well, because, you know, I mean if
anybody had really let their feelings go,

they
would've kill him. - Mm-hm.

And you would kill them too.
I mean, it was that bad.

VOICE OF DAVID DALTON
I think Marianne sympathised with Brian.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S BIOGRAPHER
And Marianne of course was not in
much better shape because of drugs.

She knew him very well and had,
you know, had an affair with him.

Marianne felt that she had
become a real drag on Mick.

And there's a horrible conversation
where she overhears Ahmet Ertegun

AHMET ERTEGUN
saying to Mick, "You've got
to get rid of Marianne,

PRESIDENT ATLANTIC RECORDS
THE STONES' LABEL
"you know, if the band
is going to function.

"It's having a really
negative effect."

And so in that sense I think she
absolutely identified with Brian.

ANITA PALLENBERG
GIRLFRIEND 1965 - 1967

Anita Pallenberg was a
massive influence on Brian.

She was credited with
transforming both Brian and the Stones.

I was with Brian the first
time when he met Anita

VOICE OF ZOUZOU

She was traying
to grab Brian, you know

Brian was holding my hand,
we were sitting on the couch

two of us, and she was traying
to grab him, you know

and turning down
the light and everything,

and starting to almost
take clothes off, you know

I knew she would take
him through the sex adventure.

I knew Brian waa on a
bad, bad, bad trip, you know.

And she was really
powerful with him, you know.

She was the one who
would decide everything.

But she had... she was
the man in the relation, you know.

She was an incredibly interesting
person, who'd done a lot,

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
and was on the make,
in the way that he was.

And she craved new experiences,
you know, in the way that he was.

But I think he was thinking
of leaving the band.

I think he probably could have
and probably should have left

the band for his own,
you know, health and sanity.

But I think, by teaming up
with Anita, he knew they'd be

a real phenomenon, which they were.

And that really launched his
kind of last great... last great ride.

Oui, oui, je le comprends.

There was such sort of...
erotic power to their pairing

and such glamour.

And also, you know,
he wants to be glamorous.

He wanted to be seen as
a main player in the Stones,

and she'd helped that happen.

BRIAN AND ANITA BOTH 24
you know, like a little unit,

whispering, talking to
each other, giggling,

speaking in sort of
a code that, you know,

VOICE OF GERED MANKOWITZ
intimate couples can have sometimes.

ROLLING STONE'S PHOTOGRAPHER
And I think they were doing

a lot of acid and just hanging out.

She was staggeringly beautiful,

had extraordinary physical
and sexual confidence.

You know, when she walked in a room,
you know, guys' eyes popped out

and tongues rolled
out, like in a cartoon.

Succes and fame, I don't
think it is very important.

I mean, in England I was
always with the Rolling Stones.

And more fame and succes than
that, I mean, nobody could dream about.

So, I don't really aim for succes.
I just try to have a good time.

Make a bit of money.

VOICE OF DAVID DALTON
The Rolling Stones, they were,

MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S BIOGRAPHER
as Marianne would put
it, were a bunch of yobs.

They were very talented, but they
weren't educated or sophisticated.

Marianne and Anita connected them
with all the European intellectuals

ROBERT FRASER GALLERY OPENING
and film-makers.

VOICE OF MARIANNE FAITHFULL
We were the right women for that time

to enable whatever
had to happen to happen.

And probably the same is true
of Brian and Anita and Keith and Anita.

They seemed to be a proto-aristocracy.

MICK AND PRINCESS MARGARET
Mick at one point said,

"Well, the only thing
left is me and the Queen."

LUGALLA ESTATE, IRELAND

Brian and Anita would spend time
at the vast Guinness estate in Ireland.

This is Mick go-karting at Leslie Castle,

a massive Irish estate that has been
in the Leslie family for 1.000 years.

A whole new world opened up to them.

I think it was the great changing
of the old order, wasn't it?

LADY JANE ORMSBY GORE
I loved the sort of mixture,

the juxtaposition then
of the Stones and the Beatles

<b>INSPIRATION FOR "LADY JANE" (JAGGER / RICHARDS)
and the royals and the thing, you know?

It suddenly was all...

Everybody and anybody were
part, part of the same thing.

It was excellent.

It was my sister Victoria's
birthday, and that was a sort of

wonderful melting pot with
the Kennedys and Princess Margaret

and the Beatles and the Stones
and then all my relations.

Brian definitely came.

Brian was the most sort
of sociable at that time.

He was much the
most sort of gregarious.

So it was it was the informality,
I think, of it that was part of

the whole thing of the '60s.

Never mind who was there,
whether it was rock stars or royalty

or scrubbers from... the East End.

It really didn't make any difference.

Brian's best friend at
the time was Tara Browne.

TARA BROWNE
He was the Guinness heir
and owner of Dandie Fashions

FRIEND OF BRIAN'S
on the King's Road.

The so-called Swinging London was
actually a very small group of people,

and Brian and Tara
were right at the centre.

Tara was immortalised in
the Beatles song A Day in the Life

when he had a tragic car accident.

"A DAY IN THE LIFE"
Composition: John Lennon / Paul McCartney
# He blew his mind out in a car

# He didn't notice that
the lights had changed

# A crowd of people
stood and stared...

Brian was devastated by Tara's
death, the first of that intimate circle.

Brian would later date
his girlfriend, Suki Poitier,

who was with Tara in the
accident but miraculously survived.

And we all wore
the Dandie Fashions look,

which was so much
the spirit of the time.

BRIAN'S FLAT AT
COURTFIELD ROAD

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
Anita was pushing him to
dress more outrageously.

He was the archetypal dandy, more
than anyone, you know, in '66, '67.

At that point you can see
the power dynamics shift

within the band, where
Keith is coming back to Brian again.

So for a period, yeah, he was back
with Keith, because he was cool

and happening, and obviously
at that time they did Ruby Tuesday.

VOICE OF BILL WYMAN
He was doing all that
stuff without asking anyone.

He'd pick up a flute or just
anything that was handy

and just create something out
of it which wasn't there originally.

And it embellished the song so
much that it became the catch.

"RUBY TUESDAY"
Composition: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards

# Or in the darkest night

# No-one knows...

# Do, doo!
Can you hear him?

# She comes and goes...

# Do, do, do...

# Goodbye, Ruby...

He just finds a flute,

and he finds a little
thing he can play on it.

Brian's self-loathing came out
in the way he treated other people.

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
He and Anita particularly were known

for spiking people's drinks.

Anita would encourage him for
that kind of outrageous behaviour.

They would just mock
people who hadn't...

Who weren't turned on in
the same way that they were.

So that was a thing - "We're the hip
kids - we can make fun "of other people."

LINDA LAWRENCE
For instance,

WITH BRIAN'S SON, JULIAN
Linda Lawrence came.

I think she was short
of money for young Julian.

I think they were up
in the flat, Brian and Anita,

and they just laughed at her
and wouldn't let her come in.

I felt devastated.

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
They looked out the window at me

and they just didn't came
down and open the door.

That was a horrible feeling
that I wasn't being let in.

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
Did you, I mean you...

because up 'till now you've been
very sympathetic towards him.

There must have been a point
where you just said, "You bastard".

I was very depressed, but
I never thought he was a bastard.

So, way do you think
he acted like that, then?

What was the explanation?

As far as I'm concerned
that was Anita's influence.

That's as simple as I can say
it, because that's what they had.

Brian, when I was with him, didn't
have any of those... ways of thinking.

When he started hanging out
with her, his dark side came out.

Which would only be natural,
because I know what that is.

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
So whilst he could still

make things happen in the studio,

he still was holding some
power even whilst he was

this kind of liability
at the same time.

You know, he was pretty
dominant in terms of the sounds.

You know, they needed
to get a bit more exotic.

Paint It Black, he's
embellished it again.

"PAINT IT, BLACK"
Bass pedals.

Composition: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards
There's Brian.

# I see a line of cars and
they're all painted black...

ERIC BURDON
THE ANIMALS

Your head goes into, like...

You're suddenly in the Middle East

or Far East...

That made me realise that there
was a very inventive guy there.

ERIC BURDON AND BRIAN
I mean, he was really a...

bit of a genius.

DEGREE OF MURDER - 1967 FILM
MUSIC COMPOSED BY BRIAN

Are you sure about that? (?)

The Volker Schlondorff film "Mord
und Totschlag" was a big deal

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
for Anita and for Brian.

It was a starring role for Anita,
with a really good director,

and it was really pretty
like their own - Brian and Anita's -

relationship, where there was
this constant provocation

and escalation of provocation.

Hau ab jetzt.

With Anita, Brian found a
partner, a match up to his level.

VOLKER SCHL�NDORFF
So, I guess they got a lot of

I mean, it certainly was
never tender relationship.

Even though, I mean
I was not in the bedroom.

But sometimes you couldn't
help overhearing or whatever.

The rwo of them were in
this frenzy. They were crazed out.

Which also always start with the way
they behave in hotels, and I mean

why the hell would you, you know,
whatever they did... turn down curtains

when they felt they
needed more daylight.

Or spill red wine or
whatnot all over stuff. It's...

It was beyond me to
understand such bahaviors.

Anita, you are 22 years old,
where are you from?

I'm German by blood,
but Italian forever.

And Anita was also kind of
putting oil on the flames.

If there were people who were
scandalized by their behavior

she'd shout back at them,

"You're all backward bourgeois,
this is the new lifestyle."

"Get lost."
"Go home and die."

He was the one who asked
to do the music for the film.

Couple of months later, when I came
to London to actually do the recording

I found out that he
didn't prepared anything.

He was not in his
proper mind anymore

Anita said it was because
of the drugs he was taking.

He was experimenting with anytihing.

So, yeah, ultimately something
come together, but it's not...

it's nothing memorable.

1967 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
I think the drugs destroyed
his already failing discipline.

And you can't be an
artist without discipline.

He probably knew that this
could only lead ultimately

to self-destruction.

Ultimately,

when she was not able
to control him any longer,

to the next Stone.

Wasn't very far.

Actually, in the Cannes hotel it
was from one room to the othwr.

And, uh, I... that's
what happened because

one morning I came
into Keith's room

and he had breakfast
on his bed and, uh,

and Anita was
next to him now.

She arrived with Brian, and
couple of days later left with Keith.

So, it's, a...

an envious position
to be in for a woman.

Of course, Anita didn't have
a credit card of her own

or a checkbook.

I think she always had to go
to Brian to get a bundle of money.

Because she lived the
lifestyle of the Stones.

And I think she got
hooked on that lifestyle

so she did not just

leave Brian and walk off
and work as a secretary

but she swirched over to
another one who was just as rich.

VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS
Back in London there's
this sort of tearful scene

and Anita said no, you're just
too much of an arsehole to live with.

Keith and I got something goin'.

But that kind of was the final nail in
the coffin with me and Brian, you kniw.

He'd never forgive me for
that, and I don't blame him.

BRIAN AND LINDA KEITH
When Keith went with Anita,

Brian decided to start going out

with Linda Keith, who used
to be Keith's girlfriend.

KEITH AND LINDA KEITH
All their relationships were

always slightly incestuous.

Marianne, you know,

when she gave up with Mick,
she went with Brian...

and then she went with Keith.

So she went with three of them.

Anita went with Brian, she
went with Mick, she went with Keith.

It was all very
mixed up, you know?

Girls would end up being with
another member of the band.

Seeing the state of Brian,

his parents finally
reached out to help him.

VOICE OF LEWIS JONES
What I firmly believe

BRIAN'S FA4HER
was the turning point in Brian's life...

was when he lost the only
girl he ever really loved.

When his mother and I saw him
for the first time for some months

after this happening, we were
quite shocked by the changes

of his appearance, and in our opinion
he was never the same boy again.

He changed suddenly and alarmingly

from a bright, enthusiastic young
man to a quiet and morose

and inward-looking young man.

Brian and Linda Keith's relationship
was tempestuous and drug-fuelled,

with Brian recovering from
Anita and Linda from Keith.

Linda ended up taking an overdose
in Brian's flat, which she survived.

Brian wrote this to her...

"Dearest darling Linda,
I'm presently very smashed.

"Please be with me.

"I'm so lonely by myself.

"I need you so badly
and I love you so much.

"Please understand
what fucked us up before,

"a terrible combination of events.

"Please let's start again.

"Please marry me.
Please, please, please.

"All my love, Brian."

VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS
It was a painful year, you know?

'67 was a year of
change for everybody.

I mean, '67 was the explosion
of the drug culture.

DRUGS and POP STARS
Facts that will SHOCK you

1967

VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA
The whole infamous Stones drug bust

MPs ASK: WHY HANDCUFFS?
all followed in the wake of
News Of The World stories

that prided themselves in
actually busting Mick Jagger

and proclaiming him a drug user.

The problem was it
wasn't Mick. It was Brian.

He was hanging in a
nightclub called Blazing

and boasting about
being a druggy hipster.

He actually told the reporter he
didn't do LSD much these days

now that everybody had
taken it up and, you know,

he was doing it
before anybody else.

MICK AND MARIANNE AT
MICK'S COURT APPEARENCE

For Mick, Brian was
the villain of the piece.

VOICE OF MARIANE FAITHFULL
The only person who was really,
really out of it on drugs was Brian.

This was like the last straw,

the straw that broke
the camel's back with Brian.

And I think it brought up a lot
of bad feelings that were already

there about Brian.

Mick didn't know
he'd end up in prison.

It was just dreadful.

But it was very frightening, because
you saw the sort of the power

of the state, the power of the status quo,

the whole thing coming
down on them - for nothing.

Mick was very, very,
very desperate and just in...

It was a horrible thing.

I don't think he ever
thought this sort of thing

would ever happen
to him in his life.

And I must say, to my shame,
I wasn't very compassionate at all.

If you need to cry, you cry.

It was a real moment
of truth and vulnerability.

Needless to say, he never,
ever showed it again.

VOIS OF PRINCE STASH KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA
Brian and I were vusted.

They thought that if they
could get Mick and Keith

then if they could get Brian
that would be the end of the band.

PRINCE STASH AND BRIAN
He was teribbly worried
that his folks would think of him.

Because he'd been a bad boy
throughout his teenage years

and now he was this successful musician
and suddenly there was this disgrace.

You know, it was mortifying
to be dragged into this thing.

He was very worried about
what his parents might think.

He went behind the scenes
to contact his parents.

He said, "Please don't think
badly about me, and so far go.

I was at Robert Fraser's
Mount St apartment

and he knocked like a ping-pong ball,
everything as he crossed the room.

You know, he sort of bounced.
He was in horrid state.

He came to see me at Paul McCartney's,
Way he was in a horrid state, and

he was convinced Mick and Keith were
picking on him and so on and so fort.

1968
THE ROLING STONES
ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS

The phone rings and it's Brian.

VOICE OF MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG
And he said,

DIRECTOR THE ROLLING STONES
ROCK AND ROL CIRCUS
"I'm not going... I'm not
going to come tomorrow."

And I said... I said, "Huh? Why?"

And he said, "Because
they are so mean to me."

And I said, "Who's so mean?"

He said, "Mick and Keith,
they are making my life hell."

Naively, I said, "Well, what would
the Rolling Stones be without you?"

And anyway, I'm thinking,

MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG
"What the fuck do we do with four

"Rolling Stones if we really are
looking at five Rolling Stones?"

And so then he stopped,

he listened and he stopped crying,

and he said, "It's
just been a hard day."

And also, you don't know how much
he's... I think he was drinking a lot.

I convinced him to
come the next day.

There was something kind
of childlike about him,

because then he had dressed
kind of like a wizard.

Then when they got onstage
at two in the morning, he was...

I would say he was
drunk because he looked it,

and he could play the maracas
and he could play the slide...

he could hardly play the
guitar in the regular way.

He looked dreadful, really.

His big bags under his eyes.

I mean, really, bags under
his eyes for a guy of 26.

BRIAN'S LAST APPEARANCE
WITH THE ROLLING STONES

He was just gone.

Well, he wouldn't
turn up half the time.

When he did turn up, he
was not in any condition

to do anything, had to baby him.

And it was very sad.

VOICE OF MARIANNE FAITHFULL
I saw him as another person
with incredibly low self-esteem

who needed help not to be
destroyed and ground underfoot.

And that's when I kind of
realised what was going on

and how it was going to affect me.

That kind of ruthlessness, you know,
the bit where they would pretend

to be recording Brian
and not have him plugged in,

that was really terrible.

VOICE OF DAVID DALTON
Both Marianne and Brian,
they were victims of the Stones.

She realised she
was no longer useful...

JUNE 9, 1969
and he was especially horrified

BRIAN KICKED OUT OF THE STONES
to be ostracised from his band.

There was no serious way that we
could consider going on the road with Brian.

VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS

So Mick and I had to go down
and sort of tell Brian virtualy like,

"Hey you cock, you're fired."

The fact that he was expecting it
made it kind of easier, I guess.

You know, he wasn't surprised.

I don't really even think he
took it al in, he was already...

up in the stratosphere.

VOICE OF DAVID DALTON
A rock group is sort of like a,

you know, a primitive tribe.

People are often killed in tribes,
psychically, if they're expelled.

And a rock group is sort of like that.

I mean, their whole lifeblood
comes from that bond.

Once they're of no
use, that is... oddly fatal.

Like, nobody wants to talk
to them or deal with them.

They just go off into
the woods and die.

VOICE OF PENELOPE TREE
I felt like he was very
much the underdog.

He was lost and, you
know, I just felt for him.

I felt that he had been...

badly treated.

I remember he had a dog.

She was a spaniel.
Such a sweet dog.

She was maybe about 5 years
old, and she looked about 20

because she'd eaten a cake
with acid and she'd gone on a trip

that had lasted sort
of months and months.

You know, sad things that happen.

JULY 3, 1969
Charlie phoned me up,

COTCHFORD FARM BRIAN'S HOME
phone went about three in the morning

VOICE OF BILL WYMAN
and he just said, "Brian died."

I couldn't believe it, you know?

It was such a blow that, you know,
you just don't accept it for weeks.

You can't really believe it's true.

And I mean, I don't...

I don't think we slept after
that, we just laid and talked and...

Just couldn't understand it.

I think he'd been doing
what he always used to do,

and that was taken
downers and doing heavy alcohol,

and fell asleep in the pool.

It was basically that simple.

VOICE OF CHARLIE WATTS
He got much nicer to...

Just before he died, you know,
the last few years of his life,

BRIAN DIED 3 WEEKS
I felt even sorrier for him

AFTER LEAVING THE BAND
for what we did to him then.

We took his one thing away,
which was being in a band.

VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS
It really knocked us back.

I mean, been with that cat for seven
or eight years nonstop, you know?

To have him suddenly
removed completely.

Although it was a shock
when it actually happened,

nobody was really
that surprised too.

There are people... I'm sure
that everybody's got those things

about certain people everybody
knows people that...

you just have that feeling
that they're not going to be...

they're not going to be 70
years old ever, you know?

Not everybody makes it.

JULY 1969
HYDE PARK CONCERT FOR BRIAN

JULY 1969
500.000 PEOPLE ATTEND

I was just 20,

and we were all incredibly
shocked by Brian's death.

It was the first drug-alcohol
casualty of our generation.

We felt his death marked the end
of the '60s, and the concert

in the park which we all went to
was very much the end of the '60s

and a sort of mass funeral for
everything that had gone before.

You just knew there was
going to be a massive change,

and Brian's death somehow
was an emblem for that.

VOICE OF VOLKER SCHL�NDORFF
I flew to London immediately from Munich

when I heard about it.

I was there, and stayed with
Anita and Keith in their house.

We were talking and
sitting and hugging.

There was a mourning and
sadness around all of them.

It was a very emotional
thing, the way they organised

this farewell and
goodbye, as if to say,

"Now you're still - or again -
one of us."

And Mick was very upset.

I just want to say something
that was written by Shelley,

and I think it goes with
what happened to Brian.

Peace, peace! He is not
dead, he does not sleep.

He has awakened
from the dreams of life.

Brian was so sensitive, really,

VOICE OF MICK JAGGER
because Brian was so sensitive
to everything, you know what I mean?

I suppose there was a kind of
feeling that I knew that Brian would...

If anyone was going to
die, Brian was going to die.

I mean, I always knew that
Brian wouldn't really live that long.

But he just... he lived
his life very fast.

He was... he was
kind of like a butterfly.

40 years after Brian died, a box
of old letters addressed to Brian

were discovered in the attic
of Linda Lawrence's family house.

In it was this letter
from Brian's father.

"My dear Brian,

VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE
we have had unhappy times

"and I have been a very poor and
intolerant father in so many ways.

"You grew up in such a
different way from that

"in which I expected you to.

"I was quite out of my depth.

"In my most drastic of all actions,

"which I shall never forget
or cease to worry over,

"I felt it was the only
way to save my home

"and bring you to
terms with yourself.

"I don't suppose you will
ever forgive me, but all I ask

"is just a little of that affection
I think you once had for me.

"This is a very
private and personal note.

"Don't trouble to reply.

"Love, Dad."

THE BAND BRIAN PUT TOGETHER
WENT ON TO BECOME

THE GREATEST ROCK & ROLL
BAND IN THE WORLD

# I'll be a rollin' stone

# You gonna be a rollin' stone

# You gonna be a rollin' stone

# Oh, darn

# Sure 'nough, he gon'

# Oh, yeah

# Well, I feel

# Yes, I feel

# Feel that I could lay down, oh,
time ain't long

# I'ma catch the first thing smokin' back

# Back down the road I'm goin'

# Back down the road I'm goin'

# Back down the road I'm goin'

# Oh, God, oh...

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