1 00:00:17,257 --> 00:00:21,355 "Brian was a casualty of war beetween two generation" STANLEY BOOTH, BIOGRAPHER 2 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:27,848 THE STONES & BRIAN JONES 3 00:00:27,883 --> 00:00:29,621 A child is a thing to be loved. 4 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,399 A child is the manifestations of both parents, 5 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,160 and both parents see themselves in the child. 6 00:00:36,572 --> 00:00:37,825 VOICE OF BRIAN JONES FOUNDER OF THE ROLLING STONES 7 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:41,759 The child is part of them. He is their flesh and blood. 8 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:46,332 And for good many years, he is a reflection of their personality. 9 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,359 So when he grows up, one day he's going to assert his own personality, 10 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,039 which might very well differ from the personalities 11 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:56,959 and outlooks of his parents. 12 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,639 Immediately, his parents feel very upset. 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,559 You know, they don't see themselves in him any more. 14 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,474 And when these parents don't see themselves in him, they feel they've lost him. 15 00:01:06,474 --> 00:01:08,053 HISTORICAL CONSULTANT BILL WYMAN 16 00:01:08,088 --> 00:01:10,520 But really, he's become a human being in his own right. 17 00:01:10,694 --> 00:01:11,521 HISTORICAL CO.PRODUCERS SUZANNE ACCOSTA WYMAN IAN GRENFELL 18 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,119 Brian's troubled relationship with his parents 19 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,011 would affect him throughout his life. 20 00:01:19,385 --> 00:01:20,867 BRIAN JONES' VOICE RECREATED BY FREDDIE FOX 21 00:01:20,902 --> 00:01:22,800 His parents disapproved of his lifestyle. 22 00:01:23,382 --> 00:01:24,388 ADDITION MUSIC BY NICK LAIRD - CLOWES 23 00:01:24,423 --> 00:01:27,320 They wanted Brian to have a proper job like his father. 24 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,880 At the age of just 19, he formed the Rolling Stones. 25 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,762 They were the first of their kind and drove people crazy 26 00:01:38,797 --> 00:01:42,693 with their long hair and their contempt for convention and authority. 27 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,039 Let's introduce you Stone by Stone to the Rolling Stones. 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,799 Hello, I'm Mick Jagger. 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,510 Charlie Watts. - Who? - Charlie Watts. 30 00:01:51,545 --> 00:01:52,889 Brian Jones. 31 00:01:52,924 --> 00:01:55,684 Keith Richard. - Bill Wyman. 32 00:01:55,719 --> 00:01:58,862 On the question of hair, boys, you're pretty long in the hair. 33 00:01:58,897 --> 00:02:01,021 What's the point of long hair these days? 34 00:02:01,056 --> 00:02:03,118 I believe it's going out in England and it's going out in Australia. 35 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,589 .... ? - You thought of anything different, 36 00:02:05,624 --> 00:02:07,436 like plaiting your hair or anything like this? 37 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,318 Ha, ha, ha. - We've got a comedian here, I see. 38 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,758 I believe some of the Eastern States groups have even suggested that you're effeminate. 39 00:02:14,793 --> 00:02:18,839 What have you got to say about this? - Well, darling... - Well, we're not, you know. 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,959 I met Brian on a train as a schoolboy, aged 14. 41 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,119 I was surprised how open and friendly he was, 42 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,999 with a soft spoken middle class accent. 43 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,239 He said he was a train spotter and this was his favourite line, 44 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,119 The Great Western. 45 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,279 I remember the shock when hearing he had died tragically 46 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,174 just six years later. 47 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,971 He seemed at the time to have the world at his feet. 48 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,530 Thank you very much. 49 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,399 # Everybody wants somebody 50 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,959 # Everybody wants somebody 51 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:03,258 # Everybody needs somebody 52 00:03:03,293 --> 00:03:04,546 # Everybody... 53 00:03:04,581 --> 00:03:05,920 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE I loved Mick and Keith. 54 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,739 BRIAN'S GIRLFREND 1962 - 1964 And Mick always was in awe of Brian. 55 00:03:09,774 --> 00:03:13,350 He absolutely loved him and I think he wanted to be Brian. 56 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,559 # Everybody wants somebody 57 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,729 BRIAN # Everybody 58 00:03:17,764 --> 00:03:18,999 # needs somebody... 59 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,052 Cos he had all the girls and he had all the fan mail. 60 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,817 # Someone to love 61 00:03:25,395 --> 00:03:26,418 # Someone to kiss... 62 00:03:26,453 --> 00:03:27,928 And Mick was trying really hard... 63 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,239 to get girlfriends, I think, at that time. 64 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,039 # Someone to please 65 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,084 # Sometimes a squeeze... 66 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,999 That was what I remember, that he was very impressed 67 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,772 with the way that Brian could just draw women to him. 68 00:03:43,807 --> 00:03:45,359 # I need you, you, you... 69 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,539 To Brian and Keith, it was like a brother relationship. 70 00:03:49,574 --> 00:03:52,663 I saw Keith so fascinated with the way Brian played 71 00:03:52,698 --> 00:03:56,699 and Brian showing him certain guitar things. 72 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,225 # I need you 73 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,086 # Yes, I do... 74 00:04:03,322 --> 00:04:05,170 And so they were very close. They were all... 75 00:04:05,205 --> 00:04:08,491 rowing together in this musical journey. 76 00:04:08,526 --> 00:04:10,124 Ladies and gentlemen, 77 00:04:10,146 --> 00:04:12,479 LONDON it's all about to happen. 78 00:04:12,514 --> 00:04:15,528 LONDON Let's hear it for the fantastic Rolling Stones! 79 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,799 # I'm all right 80 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,399 # I'm all right 81 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,160 # I'm all right 82 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,959 # I'm all right 83 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:29,759 # I'm all right 84 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,279 # Whoa, whoa, whoa 85 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:32,799 # Come on down 86 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,719 # Come on down 87 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:36,400 # Come on down... 88 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,540 Brian then, was as popular and famous as Mick. 89 00:04:49,575 --> 00:04:52,014 He was the heart and soul of the early Stones. 90 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,388 Yet most people today haven't even heard of him. 91 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,280 Brian answered most of the fan mail. 92 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,079 "Dear Doreen, many thanks for your letter 93 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,999 "and the great interest you've shown in the band. 94 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,039 "The band is really an amalgamation of two bands, 95 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,399 "the one being an R&B band I formed the year ago 96 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,039 "and the other being a group run by Mick and Keith in South East London. 97 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,679 "We have, I might add, a habit of breaking audience attendance records." 98 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,799 VOICE OF BILL WYMAN In the early days, who got all the fan mail? 99 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,439 BASS PLAYER Brian. 100 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,759 The secretaries told me, "Well, we get about 100 letters. 101 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,079 "About 60 of them are for Brian, 102 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:46,239 "about 25 are for Mick, about 10 for Charlie and Keith. 103 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,414 "And there's about the same for you, 104 00:05:48,449 --> 00:05:51,351 you know, and that's it, you know? "But Brian gets all the fan mail." 105 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,338 He was brilliant, a brilliant musician. 106 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,931 He shocked everybody with the quality of his playing. 107 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,829 We all dedicated ourselves to the band 108 00:06:02,864 --> 00:06:07,544 and Brian more so than anybody else, because it was his band in the beginning. 109 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,760 So it meant the world to him more than it did to the rest of us. 110 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,359 Brian did everything. He wrote in the music papers. 111 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:21,677 He discussed things about the origins of what is actually the blues and what is R&B. 112 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,496 There's all those letters and things. I've got copies of them. 113 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,319 When Brian advertised for a band, 114 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,642 he chose every single person to come into his band. 115 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,679 Let's recap on the Rolling Stones. 116 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,319 How did you all get together in the first place? 117 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,119 Actually, I answered an advert for a bass player, so... 118 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,142 But the rest of them got together individually, 119 00:06:45,177 --> 00:06:47,419 in jazz clubs and formed a sort of a group. 120 00:06:47,454 --> 00:06:49,039 How long ago was that? - Two years. 121 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,143 And what were you doing when you answered the advertisement? 122 00:06:51,974 --> 00:06:53,226 Engineering, actually. 123 00:06:53,261 --> 00:06:55,541 And we'll move on now to Brian. 124 00:06:55,576 --> 00:06:58,971 How long have you been with the Rolling Stones? Are you one of the original members? 125 00:06:59,006 --> 00:07:02,346 Yes, one of the original members. - What were you doing before you joined? 126 00:07:04,363 --> 00:07:06,436 Well, just sort of bumming around, waiting for something to happen, really. 127 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,458 I had quite a few jobs and I was trying to get a band going, 128 00:07:10,493 --> 00:07:13,175 but it was unsuccessful until I met up with Mick and Keith 129 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,683 and then that was a successful band. 130 00:07:15,718 --> 00:07:18,178 Well, can you think back to your first engagement? Where was that? 131 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,131 Erm... 132 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,586 Marquee, Oxford Street, London. 133 00:07:22,621 --> 00:07:25,238 And may I ask how much you got paid for that assignment? 134 00:07:25,273 --> 00:07:29,399 20 quid, which was good, because u months later, we were still working for 10 quid. 135 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,279 # It's all right 136 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,119 # It's all right, children 137 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,039 # It's all right 138 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,959 # It's all right, children 139 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,680 # It's all right 140 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,719 # Come on around, baby 141 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,839 # Come on around, baby 142 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,759 # Come on around, baby 143 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:48,639 # Come on around, baby 144 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,359 # Come on around, baby... 145 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,519 Mick used to stand in front of us. 146 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,519 Mick's got the maracas 147 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,995 and the audience just joining in and all that. 148 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,039 # Do you feel it, baby 149 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,799 # Yeah, yeah, yeah 150 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,599 # Do you feel it now 151 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,039 # My, my, my... 152 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,780 It just got right into your body and it was like a tribal gathering. 153 00:08:15,815 --> 00:08:17,679 # All right, all right, all right 154 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,879 # All right, all right, all right 155 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,039 # All right, all right, all right 156 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,679 # All right, all right, all right 157 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,880 # All right, all right, all right. 158 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,119 The blues were everything to Brian. 159 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,719 He saw the Stones as promoting unknown black blues music. 160 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:45,719 "Dear Doreen, you raised the point in your letter about blues material. 161 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:51,157 "You must appreciate that blues are not easy to put over to the average club audience. 162 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,531 "They prefer something more in the twisting and jumping run. 163 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,779 "Once again, thank you for your interest in rhythm and blues and ourselves. 164 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,959 "It's wonderful music and deserves more recognition. 165 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,945 "Yours sincerely, Brian Jones for Rolling Stones." 166 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,279 EDITH GROVE, THE STONES FIRST FLAT Mick and Keith moved into the flat that Brian had. 167 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,879 And Brian and Keith slept in a double bed in the front room 168 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,909 and Mick slept in a very single, single bed in the middle room. 169 00:09:21,944 --> 00:09:24,109 And then there was a kitchen, which was a disaster. 170 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,839 And it was a very severe winter that year, '62, 171 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,891 and we used to give him shillings to put in the bloody meter 172 00:09:31,926 --> 00:09:34,372 for the one little electric fire. 173 00:09:34,407 --> 00:09:36,919 Brian used to say, "What's the point of getting out of bed 174 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,511 "when it's so fucking cold? We might as well stay in bed!" 175 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,492 So they used to get the guitars and stay in bed and play guitar in bed. 176 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,534 VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS Luckily, we had nothing else to do. 177 00:09:48,569 --> 00:09:52,464 And since we were down to thieving potatoes out of supermarkets anyway 178 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,225 and selling beer bottles back to the off-licence, 179 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,959 there was nothing else to do except push on, you know, and just... 180 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,439 I mean, it had to get better, even if it didn't get fantastic. 181 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,372 You know, it was difficult. 182 00:10:04,407 --> 00:10:07,279 But I mean, it was fun too, since we were determined 183 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,159 that we were going to stick together and play. 184 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,759 Despite everything, 185 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,359 Brian was always tried to keep his parents' approval. 186 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,799 "Dear Mum and Dad, many thanks for your letters 187 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,119 "and a thousand apologies for not writing back before now. 188 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:26,180 "Being leader and spokesman for the Stones means I'm always busy and tied up. 189 00:10:26,215 --> 00:10:29,679 "If it's possible, I would like to see you next Monday or Tuesday. 190 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:33,400 "But I warn you, my hair is pretty long, although not untidy." 191 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,119 "Success seems to be on its way, 192 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,028 "though none of us are too happy about 'Come On'." 193 00:10:41,121 --> 00:10:45,588 "COME ON" Composition: Chuck Berry THE ROLLING STONES' FIRST SINGL 194 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,239 # Everything is wrong since me and my baby parted 195 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,159 # All day long I'm walking cos I couldn't get my car started 196 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,199 # Laid off from my job and... 197 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,559 "This record does not do justice to the group." 198 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:59,959 Brian would invite his mother and father to the Stones concerts. 199 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:01,800 But they never came. 200 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,039 And Brian taught Keith to play with him. 201 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,035 You know, all the linking notes. 202 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,879 "BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY" Composition: Jimmy Reed There they go. 203 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:13,714 See, one's going up and the other one's coming down. 204 00:11:13,749 --> 00:11:15,400 When one's coming down, he's going up. 205 00:11:15,401 --> 00:11:17,430 BILL WYMAN ROLING STONES BASSIST 206 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,200 And it's so beautiful. It's so perfect what they're doing. 207 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:28,002 We did a song called Mona, which is a Bo Diddley song. 208 00:11:28,037 --> 00:11:31,245 And you got... You'll have to excuse me, that's my bloody... 209 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,960 It's switched itself off now, thank goodness. 210 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,559 He learned to play along with the tremolo. 211 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,559 You know, the - doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. 212 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,319 And in time. 213 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,880 And so you'll hear it on Mona here. 214 00:11:48,397 --> 00:11:50,387 "MONA" Composition: Bo Diddley 215 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,440 # Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. 216 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,366 See? No-one was doing that then. 217 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,080 # Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. 218 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,524 But, he was a fucker, you know. He would be really horrible sometimes. 219 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,011 He had one side of him, which I have to say was really, 220 00:12:17,046 --> 00:12:21,400 I wouldn't say evil, but he was really cruel sometimes. 221 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,599 There's photos of us being photographed 222 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,365 and Brian's over the top of me dropping cigarette ash on my head. 223 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,399 But he used to do things like that. 224 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,199 And not only to me, but to everybody. 225 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,040 He always had to prove himself. He was embarrassed about his size. 226 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,719 And if he didn't get his way, he kind of used to get very aggressive 227 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,239 and then he'd be all apologetic and, "Sorry, man, I didn't mean it." 228 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,629 He'd stubbed that cigarette out on the back of your hand in the car... 229 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,320 and you'd always forgive him because he was such a nice, sweet guy. 230 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,160 Brian had immense opposition from his father. 231 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,663 His dad didn't like him trying to be a musician. 232 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:13,344 They just thought, get a proper job. You know, the same old thing. 233 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,079 Up to a certain point, 234 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,916 LEWIS JONES Brian was a perfectly normal, 235 00:13:17,917 --> 00:13:19,119 BRIAN'S FATHER conventional boy, 236 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,479 LEWIS JONES JET ENGINEER who was well behaved and was well liked. 237 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,688 Liked, I suppose, because he was well behaved. 238 00:13:26,723 --> 00:13:32,314 He did his studies and he was quite a model schoolboy. 239 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,239 And then there came this peculiar change in his early teens, 240 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,079 at the time, I suppose, he began to become a man, 241 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,445 where he began to get some resentment of authority. 242 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,879 It was a rebellion against parental authority 243 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,537 and it was certainly a rebellion against the school authority. 244 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:59,039 He often used to say, why should he do something he was told 245 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,157 just because the person who was telling him was older? 246 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,999 From being an A grade student, Brian rebelled. 247 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,508 BRIAN JONES He failed in his studies, 248 00:14:08,509 --> 00:14:10,679 and put all his energy into music 249 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:12,679 CHELTENHAM GRAMMARY SCHOOL and picking up girls. 250 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:15,599 VOICE OF ROGER LIMB He played occasionally clarinet in the school orchestra, 251 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,394 BRIAN'S SCHOOLMATE but Brian was not really interested in anything else at the school. 252 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,930 Not in athletics. Not in any sports. 253 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,559 Not in the cadet force, 254 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,203 not in debating societies or anything like that. 255 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,200 He kept himself to himself quite a bit at school, I would say. 256 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,279 In the beginning of the '60s, it was one society, 257 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,962 just this mono culture, and it was our generation who went beyond that. 258 00:14:48,406 --> 00:14:49,782 VOICE OF BARRY MILES BRIAN'S FRIEND 259 00:14:49,817 --> 00:14:53,285 It's a level of sort of middle class tightness, 260 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,666 which you don't possibly see so much any more. 261 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,239 He had a pretty bad relationship with his parents, 262 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,378 who were very respectable, very straight, very posh. 263 00:15:03,413 --> 00:15:05,736 But he used to say he just couldn't stand it. 264 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,334 The problem with Brian was that he came from a very, very bourgeois family... 265 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,559 who saw themselves as better than the neighbours 266 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,031 and better than this and better than that. 267 00:15:24,710 --> 00:15:27,149 BRIAN'S MOTHER WAS A PIANO TEACHER 268 00:15:27,184 --> 00:15:31,059 Brian's parents, his mother, was a Welsh Baptist. 269 00:15:31,777 --> 00:15:32,861 VOICE OF PAT ANDREWS The mother was very rigit. 270 00:15:34,198 --> 00:15:35,745 GIRLFRIEND 1961 - 1962 MOTHER TO BRIAN'S SON MARK There was no fun, no laughter. 271 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:39,248 I'm sure his mother loved him. 272 00:15:40,431 --> 00:15:43,844 But I just think that... she didn't know how. 273 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,352 VOICE OF LEWIS JONES All the time, his fanaticism for 274 00:15:51,353 --> 00:15:54,359 jazz music was coming to the fore. 275 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,319 It was a great disappointment to us and a source of considerable anxiety 276 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:04,530 when he became so wrapped up in his love of jazz music, that 277 00:16:04,565 --> 00:16:10,239 in spite of everything we could do or say... he went off and did it. 278 00:16:10,274 --> 00:16:12,519 # Wop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bom-bom 279 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,599 FILBY'S JAZZ CLUB # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 280 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,199 BRIAN AGED 16 WORKED THE DOOR # Tutti frutti, woo 281 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,639 # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 282 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,359 # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 283 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,919 # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 284 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,097 # Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bom-bom... 285 00:16:27,995 --> 00:16:29,686 According to Brian, his parents 286 00:16:30,337 --> 00:16:31,961 VOICE OF GRAHAM RIDE they didn't like him playing jazz. 287 00:16:32,201 --> 00:16:34,165 BRIAN'S FRIEND They thought it was, you know 288 00:16:34,583 --> 00:16:35,954 a degraded form of music. 289 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:39,752 The fact that things were becoming more rebellious. 290 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:43,372 We favored Black music. We favored the underdog. 291 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,452 # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 292 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,610 BRIAN MET HIS FIRST GIRLFRIEND # Tutti frutti, woo 293 00:16:49,645 --> 00:16:51,868 VALERIE CORBETT, AT THE CLUB # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 294 00:16:51,903 --> 00:16:54,381 # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti 295 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,008 # Tutti frutti, oh Rutti... 296 00:16:57,043 --> 00:16:59,359 Frustrated by his parents' disapproval, 297 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,021 Brian adopted Val's family 298 00:17:01,022 --> 00:17:03,959 VAL CORBETT and spent all his time playing blues music. 299 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,421 GIRLFRIEND, MOTHER BRIAN'S FIRST CHILD Val Corbett, yes, I knew her very well. 300 00:17:06,561 --> 00:17:08,662 BRIAN AND VALERIE BOTH AGE 16 301 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,036 VOICE OF ROGER LIMB She was rather stylish 302 00:17:12,037 --> 00:17:15,007 BRIAN'S SCHOOLMATE and I thought she was rather nice. 303 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,507 Brian was quite besotted with her 304 00:17:18,542 --> 00:17:20,770 and she, of course, was besotted with him. 305 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,886 Anyway, they were obviously made for each other. 306 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,679 The next thing we heard was that Val was pregnant 307 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,959 and she at first was terribly pleased 308 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,079 because she and Brian were going to leave Cheltenham, 309 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,927 go and live in London and get a place together. 310 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,983 And suddenly it dawned on her that wasn't going to happen. 311 00:17:51,269 --> 00:17:53,006 VOICE OF GRAHAM RIDE He did offer to marry her. 312 00:17:53,007 --> 00:17:54,007 BRIAN'S FRIEND He did offer to marry her. 313 00:17:57,139 --> 00:17:58,480 But her parents, her mother in particular, 314 00:17:59,057 --> 00:18:00,490 wouldn't allow it to happen. 315 00:18:00,525 --> 00:18:05,695 We know, those days... the parents ruled the roost, didn't they? 316 00:18:06,936 --> 00:18:08,560 They sent you iff to a nursing home somewhere. 317 00:18:11,309 --> 00:18:15,661 VAL AND BRIAN'S CHILD WAS GIVEN UP FOR ADOPTION 318 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,929 BRIAN'S HOUSE On December the 22nd, 1960, 319 00:18:20,964 --> 00:18:23,675 Brian, aged 17, was kicked out of his home. 320 00:18:23,710 --> 00:18:26,119 His father would later refer to this as 321 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:28,578 "my most drastic of all actions, 322 00:18:28,613 --> 00:18:31,835 "which I shall never forget or cease to worry over." 323 00:18:33,142 --> 00:18:35,416 VOICE OF PAT ANDREWS And there was Brian's suitcase in the driveway. 324 00:18:35,451 --> 00:18:37,892 GIRLFRIEND 1961 - 1962 It was really sad night. 325 00:18:38,689 --> 00:18:42,414 He had asked me to help him to get his clothes and stuff out. 326 00:18:44,982 --> 00:18:46,074 But lucky I got, as I said - 327 00:18:46,074 --> 00:18:49,553 My sister at that particular time had a spare room. 328 00:18:51,366 --> 00:18:52,948 He had a grear time at my sister's. 329 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,359 Brian, now rejected by his parents, 330 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,879 PAT ANDREWS, AGE 20 moved in with Pat and her sister, Betty, 331 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,376 WITH BRIAN'S SON JULIAN MARK and was looked after by their parents. 332 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,279 This became a pattern of Brian's behaviour - 333 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,302 adopting other families, getting the daughters pregnant and then leaving. 334 00:19:08,337 --> 00:19:10,939 This would happen at least five times. 335 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:13,410 Do you feel bitter at all? 336 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,519 I'm not actually bitter. 337 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,599 I feel quite sorry for Brian in a way, 338 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,599 because the kind of person he is, 339 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,839 you can never be happy, could never have true friends. 340 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,359 The only friends he has probably like him because of what he is. 341 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:32,658 I think if he was turned out on to the streets, nobody would want to know Brian. 342 00:19:32,693 --> 00:19:35,479 He's not the kind of person that you take to 343 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,439 because he's so cynical. 344 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,439 He's got no feelings for anybody. 345 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,039 He just uses people for his own good. 346 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,275 And when he's finished, he throws them aside. 347 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,702 So I just feel sorry for him. 348 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,399 Brian's own life mirrored the rebellious spirit of the Stones 349 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,350 more than any other member. 350 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,559 Expelled from two schools. Thrown out of his home. 351 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,960 A reckless personal life. The blues was Brian's salvation. 352 00:20:01,961 --> 00:20:05,185 It was probably his flaws... 353 00:20:05,186 --> 00:20:07,834 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA that were driving him 354 00:20:07,835 --> 00:20:08,835 AUTHOR "SYMPATTHY FOR THE DEVIL" to escape from Cheltenham, family life, wherever 355 00:20:11,944 --> 00:20:13,602 And then that music is going to be his vehiclw. 356 00:20:14,194 --> 00:20:15,595 The toughest Chicago music. 357 00:20:16,597 --> 00:20:18,772 Elmore James. Robert Johnson. 358 00:20:19,714 --> 00:20:20,624 Muddy Waters. 359 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:22,999 MUDDY WATERS # Oh, a child's coming 360 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,679 # He's going to be, going to be a rollin' stone 361 00:20:27,106 --> 00:20:29,381 "ROLLIN' STONE" INSPIRED BRIAN'S NAMING OF THE GROUP # He's going to be a rollin' stone... 362 00:20:31,149 --> 00:20:36,247 So that atonal, bluesy, harmonic structure if all the Stones, in fact 363 00:20:36,805 --> 00:20:37,806 that came from Brian. 364 00:20:39,101 --> 00:20:40,935 And then the edginess of the sound, that was Brian. 365 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,599 # Well, I feel 366 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,800 # Yes, I feel. 367 00:20:51,636 --> 00:20:54,700 It certainly is true that for loada and loads of American teenagers 368 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:57,073 they didn't really kniw about the blues before the Stones. 369 00:21:03,561 --> 00:21:06,736 That was a really key moment in Brian's trajectory. 370 00:21:08,092 --> 00:21:10,012 Introducing that stuff to Americans. 371 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:11,839 Tell us something about him, Brian. 372 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,439 When we started playing together, 373 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,088 we started playing because we wanted to play rhythm and blues. 374 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,679 And Howlin' Wolf was one of our greatest idols. 375 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,799 And it's a great pleasure to finally be booked on this show tonight... - Thanks to Howlin' Wolf. 376 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,201 So I think it's about time you shut up and we had Howlin' Wolf onstage. 377 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,464 I agree! Let's get him on. Howlin' Wolf! 378 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,284 It was a huge deal for those guys 379 00:21:31,319 --> 00:21:33,719 because they'd just never really been on TV. 380 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:39,149 To be there are peak time in America, that was an incredibly big deal. 381 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,360 # How many more years 382 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,400 # Have I got to let you dog me around? 383 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,865 # How many more years 384 00:21:55,446 --> 00:21:58,443 # Have I got to let you dog me around? 385 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,239 It's an incredible moment and there are still people 386 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,560 who put it as one of the greatest TV moments of the 1960s. 387 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,439 There's a great period in the first couple of years 388 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,799 where he seemed to have real insight. 389 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,159 And I'm talking about 1961, 1962. 390 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,866 # I'll try to show it if you're driving me back 391 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,520 # Your love for me has got to be real 392 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,200 # For you to know just how I feel 393 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,960 # Love for real and not fade away... 394 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,759 So you worked out both the keys of open tunings of blues, 395 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,359 which is D slash E, which is open D or E, 396 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:48,159 which is Elmore James, and he was open G, 397 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,880 which is Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. 398 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,487 # I'm going to tell you how it's going to be 399 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,200 # You're going to give your love to me 400 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,599 # Love to last more than one day... 401 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,119 So what did we do for the 5th single? 402 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,679 We wanted to do a blues and everybody said, 403 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,975 "Don't do it because you'll destroy your career. 404 00:23:19,010 --> 00:23:23,006 "No-one's ever done a blues record for a single in England." 405 00:23:23,041 --> 00:23:26,040 You know, it's the worst thing. Like they said to Ray Charles, 406 00:23:26,084 --> 00:23:29,208 "Don't do a country album because it will destroy you." 407 00:23:29,243 --> 00:23:31,079 And it was the greatest thing he ever did. 408 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,375 Well, when we did Little Red Rooster... 409 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,039 they said, you know, "You're going to kill yourself." 410 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,439 It came out on the Friday and on the Monday it was number 1. 411 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,960 And Brian... 412 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,968 controlled the whole band. I'll start again. 413 00:23:50,295 --> 00:23:51,468 That's Brian with a slide. 414 00:23:51,503 --> 00:23:54,674 "LITTLE RED ROOSTER" Composition: Willie Dixon 415 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,009 See, he's doing it. 416 00:23:58,044 --> 00:24:00,114 # I am the little red rooster... 417 00:24:00,466 --> 00:24:02,182 What is anybody else doing? 418 00:24:02,246 --> 00:24:04,459 # Too lazy to crow for day 419 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,455 See, he's making the song. 420 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,799 # Everybody wants somebody 421 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,359 # Everybody needs somebody 422 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,919 # To love... 423 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,960 So we were completely unique. 424 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,999 # Someone to kiss 425 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,439 # Oh, yeah 426 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,239 # Sometimes a miss 427 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,160 # Someone to please 428 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,120 # And sometimes a squeeze 429 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,679 # I need you, you, you 430 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,439 # I need you, you, you 431 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,279 # I need you... 432 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,839 Bo Diddley couldn't believe how good we were. 433 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,640 # You, you, you 434 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,799 # Sometimes I feel like 435 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,199 # I get a little sad inside 436 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,519 # When my baby mistreats me 437 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,039 # I kind of get a little bit mad 438 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,839 # I need you... 439 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,920 Rolling Stones! Rolling Stones! Rolling Stones! 440 00:25:02,850 --> 00:25:04,317 We were in a bloody tornado all the time. 441 00:25:04,603 --> 00:25:08,963 The band in 1963 played over 300 gigs. 442 00:25:09,811 --> 00:25:13,575 When you'd come on stage, the whole crowd would just pour forward. 443 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,920 # Oh, Carol, don't let him steal your heart away 444 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,992 # I'm going to learn to dance if it takes me all night and day 445 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,960 # Climb into my machine so we can groove on out 446 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,808 # I know some swinging little joint where we can jump and shout 447 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:39,279 # It's not too far back... 448 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,050 There was rioting whenever the Stones played. 449 00:25:45,277 --> 00:25:45,277 It was an outpouring of emotion against the authorities 450 00:25:45,312 --> 00:25:47,340 and the traditional ways of doing things. 451 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,599 # A little cutie takes your hat and you can thank her ma'am... 452 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,439 The way the Stones looked and dressed, 453 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,005 their hair and sexuality, was a whole new feeling. 454 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,787 Everyone fancied both Brian and Mick, both male and female. 455 00:26:05,822 --> 00:26:08,810 They had this extraordinary androgynous quality. 456 00:26:08,845 --> 00:26:11,442 # I'm going to learn to dance if it takes me all night and day... 457 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,959 Brian met Linda Lawrence in 1962 and was adopted into her family. 458 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,783 I only saw him. 459 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,479 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE Yeah, and heard him. 460 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,479 GIRLFRIEND 1962 - 1964, MOTHER OF BRIAN'S SON JULIAN The sound was what I was connecting to 461 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,399 and it was the harmonica and the slide guitar. 462 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,439 The first time I'd ever heard that kind of music 463 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,659 or felt that kind of feeling, it was just... just amazing. 464 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,447 Yeah, a whole feeling came over me that I'd never felt before. 465 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,799 # My days are pretty rough 466 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,479 # I want you to come back, come back, come back... 467 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,359 LINDA AND BRIAN IN 1963 It was instant. 468 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,559 BRIAN 21, LINDA 17 Like, if you can call it love. 469 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:35,065 At the time, I wouldn't have known what that was, but now I do. 470 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,479 There was a point that came where he said, 471 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,559 "Can I come stay with you in Windsor with your parents?" 472 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,759 And I said, "Yeah." 473 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,000 Yeah, my parents loved him. 474 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,720 # Somebody stop this pain in my heart 475 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,599 # My, my, my, my, my, my 476 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,640 # Don't you know, one day 477 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,439 # My days are pretty rough 478 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,239 # Won't you love me? 479 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,760 # Love me. 480 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,079 Most of the time it was all about music 481 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,719 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE and what records he's going to get. 482 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,119 And how he was going to play this and, you know... 483 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:33,599 And I would often put the records on over and over again 484 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,487 so that he could get the riffs and things. 485 00:28:36,522 --> 00:28:40,888 Put it back on and have a listen and get the sound. 486 00:28:48,308 --> 00:28:49,497 AUSTRALIAN TOUR 487 00:28:49,532 --> 00:28:51,279 Seeing them get more and more popular 488 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,606 and more and more people coming to see them... it was very exciting. 489 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,644 And we got very, very much in love. 490 00:29:18,645 --> 00:29:24,025 How do you feel, when you ger all these girls 491 00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:26,388 screaming and shouting? - It's great. 492 00:29:27,193 --> 00:29:29,323 VOICE OF BRIAN JONES Girls screamibg at a concert and not somebody else. 493 00:29:33,725 --> 00:29:34,669 You feel a personal pride. 494 00:29:36,061 --> 00:29:38,008 When we toched down in Sydney, we had a riot at the airport. 495 00:29:43,178 --> 00:29:44,695 There were about 10.000 kids there. 496 00:29:44,695 --> 00:29:46,813 And they just went mad, and they wrecked the airport building. 497 00:29:54,327 --> 00:29:57,191 Brian! Brian! 498 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,399 He was loved by so many people. I didn't mind that. 499 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,358 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE I knew he loved me, so I didn't care. 500 00:30:06,393 --> 00:30:09,919 And I knew we were young. I just knew he loved me. 501 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,519 And I... I felt like it's Ok. 502 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,839 You know, he'll be back. 503 00:30:27,941 --> 00:30:29,405 We were excited, because we didn't think, raelly 504 00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:34,961 we didn't know much about Australia. How big we were, or how small we were. 505 00:30:34,961 --> 00:30:37,240 I was knocked out. I mean, the girls, lisren to that, they're wild. 506 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,014 You know, we're knocked out, we really are. 507 00:30:39,446 --> 00:30:40,865 Are you used to this kind of reception, then? 508 00:30:40,929 --> 00:30:43,595 Yeah, we're used to it, but we're not... you know, we weren't expecting it in Australia 509 00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:44,939 because we didn't think we were very well-known. 510 00:30:45,732 --> 00:30:47,513 Well, apparently, you're rather well-known 511 00:30:47,513 --> 00:30:49,101 First of all, let's go with somw of the numbers. 512 00:30:49,439 --> 00:30:50,291 How did all this start? 513 00:30:50,909 --> 00:30:52,794 Uh, well, we just met each other in jazz clubs in London, 3 years ago. 514 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,982 Brian's rivalry with Mick for leadership of the Stones was growing. 515 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,999 Mick was the natural frontman 516 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,085 and Brian's insecurity played into this. 517 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,879 A visible friction grew up between them. 518 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,761 It began to dominate Brian's thinking. 519 00:31:11,047 --> 00:31:13,329 You know, we're not traying to create anything, you know 520 00:31:13,765 --> 00:31:15,773 We're just acting like we always have done. 521 00:31:15,773 --> 00:31:17,593 How would you describe the type of music you play? 522 00:31:18,046 --> 00:31:20,957 Many people have tried to describe it, how do you describe it yourself? 523 00:31:20,958 --> 00:31:21,958 Well, I suppose it's rhythm and blues, if you want to call in anything, you know 524 00:31:21,959 --> 00:31:25,402 Rhythm and blues or blues. 525 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,486 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE Brian sent me to a modelling course 526 00:31:29,521 --> 00:31:30,799 LINDA MODELING IN 1963 for a little while in London 527 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,159 and I had taken the hairdressing course. 528 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,722 So I was really into hair and I was saying, 529 00:31:37,757 --> 00:31:40,374 "Just grow your hair, don't cut it", you know. 530 00:31:40,409 --> 00:31:44,519 And then when it did get quite long, I would trim it, 531 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,879 but not cut it, and make that shape. 532 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,959 He was like a gentleman. 533 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,559 He was all dressed in his white shirt and his jacket 534 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,679 and he was open doors. 535 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,200 It was that kind of... very gentlemanly and gentle spoken. 536 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,079 He had a family, obviously. 537 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:08,646 And after a while, we drove down. He wanted me to meet his parents. 538 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,279 And I know he didn't take many people down to meet his parents, 539 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,764 so I knew it was something special. 540 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,439 Did you feel that Brian cared a lot what his parents thought? 541 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,159 Oh, very much. 542 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,919 That was the whole thing, that he really did want them 543 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,745 to like what he was doing and, you know, be proud of him. 544 00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:31,282 That was the whole point, I think, of us going there. 545 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,540 They wanted him to have a different career. 546 00:32:35,575 --> 00:32:40,576 Something more like what his father had been doing - a good paying job. 547 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:47,440 But Brian kind of saw that and he kind of rebelled and stepped out of it. 548 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,119 # I warned you baby from time to time 549 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,599 # You don't listen so pay me no mind 550 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,479 # About moving on 551 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,520 # Yeah, I'm moving on... 552 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,119 We became the love generation 553 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,591 and the music was going to be the opening. 554 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,599 # Mister Engineer with your throttle in hand 555 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,079 # Take me back to that Southern land 556 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,799 # It's called moving 557 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,200 # Keep a rolling on 558 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,239 # You're flying too high 559 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,551 # For my old sky I'll move on. 560 00:33:29,804 --> 00:33:32,410 VOICE OF MELISSA NORTH We were just coming out of this 1950s thing. 561 00:33:32,768 --> 00:33:36,414 ARTIST AND ASSISTANT TI JIMI HENDRIX You know? We were excited about everything. 562 00:33:38,458 --> 00:33:41,965 The bands came to London, and the girls came for the bands 563 00:33:41,965 --> 00:33:44,754 and then they were getting away from their parents. 564 00:33:46,266 --> 00:33:48,809 Everything their parents said they should do they wanted to do the opposite 565 00:33:49,457 --> 00:33:50,289 Quite right, too. 566 00:33:50,290 --> 00:33:53,811 They'd all use to hang out at the... what is called? 567 00:33:53,811 --> 00:33:56,941 The cafe on Denmark Street where all the musicians went. 568 00:33:57,619 --> 00:34:00,535 Just standing around waiting for Brian Jones, you know, whoever. 569 00:34:02,054 --> 00:34:03,846 It was awful, these probation offixers. 570 00:34:03,846 --> 00:34:06,742 I'm not saying, one probation officer, there had ro be flocks of them. 571 00:34:06,742 --> 00:34:11,172 I had to kind od deal with them. They' say, "Her parents are very worried and she..." 572 00:34:12,019 --> 00:34:15,893 "Her parents say she left in a pink miniskirt," 573 00:34:16,488 --> 00:34:17,669 and "have you seen her?" 574 00:34:18,725 --> 00:34:20,629 But i wasn't going to tell the probation officers 575 00:34:20,629 --> 00:34:24,053 and tell their parents, because you know, they wanted a different life. 576 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,807 Dawn Molloy was the mother of Brian's 5th child. 577 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,039 DAWN MOLLOY I was 18. 578 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,119 GIRLFRIEND 1964, MOTHER OF BRIAN'S SON JOHN I don't think I'd ever been in love before. 579 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,839 Every time I saw him, my heart skipped a beat. 580 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,720 And every time we saw me, he... It was obvious that he wanted me. 581 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,799 Being a Catholic, I was very... inhibited. 582 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,039 He kind of got that out of me. 583 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,800 Not to be ashamed of my body and what I could do. 584 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,075 He was very, very sexy. 585 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,199 Yeah, the way he made love, he just was insatiable. 586 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,160 WHEN DAWN WAS 18, BRIAN WAS 22 He made me feel... 587 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,679 ..amazing. 588 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,440 He just made me feel... 589 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,477 ..loved and special. 590 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,919 He was an amazing teacher 591 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,093 of how you should make love to a woman. 592 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,055 My parents, they had such a thing against... 593 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,974 long-haired pop stars. 594 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,039 "Oh, this music's no good." 595 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,570 You know how it is. They didn't want any of it. 596 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,305 I never dreamed he'd come to our apartment. 597 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,838 There he was, on the doorstep. 598 00:35:44,873 --> 00:35:48,519 "Good evening, Mrs Malloy." And kissed her hand. 599 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,518 I mean, who does that? 600 00:35:50,553 --> 00:35:51,910 It's just... 601 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,349 He had suave. 602 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,240 They liked him in the end. 603 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,503 Then my mum said, "Well, why don't you go down to your bedroom? 604 00:36:02,538 --> 00:36:04,507 "Show Brian your bedroom." 605 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,839 # I'm going to tell you how it's going to be... 606 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,319 And then he turned around and asked my parents if he could take me on tour. 607 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,165 There's no way my dad is going to let me go. 608 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:17,559 But my dad said, 609 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,626 "Well, you know, as long as you're in a different room 610 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,120 "and you take care of her, it's Ok." 611 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,919 The security wasn't around, 612 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,209 so you could just walk into a hotel and the girls were everywhere. 613 00:36:40,244 --> 00:36:44,522 We went to our room and there's this girl there 614 00:36:44,557 --> 00:36:47,145 and she's just sitting on the bed stark naked. 615 00:36:47,180 --> 00:36:49,727 And then we went into the bathroom and there's another one. 616 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,310 And they're willing to give everything to them. 617 00:36:55,530 --> 00:37:00,086 The police had no idea what hit them. They were completely taken by surprise. 618 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,986 And it was terrifying. 619 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,159 I could see all their feet, trampling on people in stiletto heels, 620 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,279 going for his arms and stuff. I thought I was going to die. 621 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,928 It was like being in a tube train and you can't move. 622 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,279 I think Mick lost some hair. 623 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,468 They pulled... Literally pulled hair out of his head. 624 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:32,395 And I started to fall back and I fell back and Mick caught me. 625 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,816 Brian was looking for me, so he came around the corner 626 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,639 and saw me in the arms of Mick. 627 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,120 And then... 628 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,719 ..Brian lost it. 629 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:46,559 "Keep your hands off my fucking girl! You're not having all my girlfriends!" 630 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:47,634 And all that kind of stuff. 631 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,265 Mick said, "Hey, I'm just holding her, you know. She just fell. 632 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,833 "Don't be a dick", you know? 633 00:37:53,868 --> 00:37:56,590 And then Bill said, "Yeah, sometimes you get like that. 634 00:37:56,625 --> 00:37:59,008 "You just have to leave him, he'll be fine." 635 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,762 Everybody went through their... 636 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,688 VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS star trip, you know. 637 00:38:05,723 --> 00:38:11,788 And I think Brian was the only one that it changed 638 00:38:11,823 --> 00:38:15,479 in a really deep way, and probably not for the better. 639 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,399 It was very difficult for him, you know, 640 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,439 and not made any easier probably by the rest of us, you know, 641 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,159 because nobody had the time to look after somebody else. 642 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:31,879 If one of them isn't quite strong enough to deal with that situation 643 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,720 there's very little you can do to help him. 644 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,759 They were all a little wary, I think, of Brian 645 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,839 VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY because he could be kind of moody. 646 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,119 But I think they put that on him 647 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,559 because he was supposed to be the leader 648 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,880 and he was no longer the leader. 649 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,821 Mick ruled the roost as far as what they were going to play 650 00:39:02,856 --> 00:39:06,485 and the fact that he could write music and Brian couldn't. 651 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,559 I think there may have been a little jealousy there. 652 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,840 The fact that Mick and Keith were so close. 653 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,759 # Yeah, yeah, yeah 654 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,006 # I feel all right 655 00:39:18,077 --> 00:39:19,556 # I feel all right, children... 656 00:39:19,898 --> 00:39:21,791 ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM MANAGER 657 00:39:21,826 --> 00:39:25,126 I think they were a little bit lost until Andrew came along. 658 00:39:25,161 --> 00:39:26,719 And then Andrew kind of laid down the law 659 00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,679 and said what he wanted to do, which was all very well. 660 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,399 And I thought that was a good idea to have a manager, 661 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,559 but I don't think Brian realised 662 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,843 that he would be handing everything over to him. 663 00:39:43,603 --> 00:39:46,043 "LITLLE RED ROOSTER" BRIAN JONES PLAY SLIDE GUITAR 664 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,919 They had two different ideas of what they wanted to do. 665 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,532 Brian loved Howlin' Wolf and he wanted to stay as a blues group. 666 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,441 Andrew wanted them to be pop. 667 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,799 And I think Andrew and Brian just didn't hit it off. 668 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,999 And I think they just got into loggerheads. 669 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,519 Pop sold. 670 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,959 And obviously Andrew wanted to make money. 671 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,479 Thank you. 672 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,159 "Dear Melinda, 673 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,079 "Mick is the head of the group. 674 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,639 "At one time I was, but Mick took over. 675 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,279 "Don't ask me why. We just thought it would be better, 676 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,842 "as he is a good leader. 677 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,199 "Mick's birthday was on the 26th of July. 678 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,168 "I must rush, dear, honestly. 679 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,027 "Brian Jones." 680 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,519 I guess he was a little jealous of Mick because he was... 681 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,159 VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY He had all the fame sort of thing. 682 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,040 But I don't think Brian realised that he had just as much too. 683 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,719 # Oh, Carol 684 00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:16,040 # Don't let him steal your heart away 685 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,359 # I'm gonna learn to dance 686 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,040 # If it takes me all night and day 687 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,280 # Climb into my machine so we can groove on out... 688 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,359 I think he would've liked to have been like Mick, 689 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:44,879 VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY but then no-one's like Mick. 690 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,519 He has this charisma about him, he has amazing energy. 691 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,285 # A little cutie takes your hat and you can thank her, ma'am... 692 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,160 I understand, Brian, because I think he was a lost person. 693 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,799 The success of the Stones was unbelievable. 694 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,663 But at a time when Brian could have celebrated 695 00:42:17,698 --> 00:42:19,849 the success of the band he had founded, 696 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,547 he was locked in conflict with problems of his own creation. 697 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,999 The reason I found out about Linda was because I was told 698 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,479 VOICE OF DAWN MOLLOY to go to Torquay. 699 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,999 And then Stu told me, no, I couldn't go in and see him 700 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,999 because Linda was there with the baby. 701 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,999 I'm like, "What... whose baby?", you know? He said, "Well, Brian's." 702 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,479 # Well, you know my lovin' not fade away... 703 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,853 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE Fame is a very strange thing. 704 00:42:44,255 --> 00:42:45,277 WITH BRIAN'S SON JULIAN 705 00:42:45,312 --> 00:42:46,721 And he wanted that as well. 706 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,041 And so that was the choice he had to make. 707 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,794 And... and he did. 708 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,039 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE I was at all the gigs. 709 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,999 The other girlfriends weren't allowed to come, 710 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,156 but I would always be at the gig. 711 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,439 The last one that I was at before I had Julian 712 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,319 was the Bo Diddley concert. 713 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,359 # Hey, Bo Diddley - Hey, Bo Diddley 714 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,119 # Hey, Bo Diddley - Hey, Bo Diddley 715 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:26,159 # Hey, Bo Diddley - Hey, Bo Diddley 716 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,039 # Hey, Bo Diddley - Hey, Bo Diddley 717 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,344 # I got a girl lived on a hill - Hey, Bo Diddley... 718 00:43:34,379 --> 00:43:37,184 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE I bonded so well with Bo Diddley 719 00:43:37,219 --> 00:43:38,833 and it was all fantastic. 720 00:43:38,868 --> 00:43:40,943 They thought that Brian and I were getting married. 721 00:43:41,406 --> 00:43:42,909 I thought we were getting married. 722 00:43:43,384 --> 00:43:44,381 LINDA AND BO DIDDLEY 723 00:43:44,416 --> 00:43:47,039 So it was a bit of a shock when Andrew Oldham came in and said, 724 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,439 "You can't have girlfriends and wives and, you know, it's..." 725 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,399 Because I knew that he loved me and it was really hard to understand. 726 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,679 And I kept saying to myself, "Well, I have to let go 727 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,800 "and he'll be back." 728 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,199 And my dad, when he left, said, 729 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,040 "And there's no-one to look after him now." 730 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,879 Brian tormented himself because he couldn't write songs like Mick and Keith, 731 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,287 whose compositions had moved the band on to a whole new level. 732 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,639 Say hi to Brian. 733 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,383 Brian is one of the writers of most of the things, right? 734 00:44:25,418 --> 00:44:27,592 No, I'm not, actually... Well, I'm not really a writer. 735 00:44:27,627 --> 00:44:29,319 Ah, we do write a lot of stuff together - 736 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,279 it comes out under the Nanker Phelge pseudonym - 737 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,879 but Mick and Keith write more... many - Thank you, Bill. 738 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,799 They're a little more industrious than we are. 739 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,719 In writing the songs that you write, do you sometimes think that you have 740 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,599 a special inspiration for the way that you... 741 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,359 Well, you'd better ask - about writing songs - better address those 742 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,039 questions to Mick and Keith because they'll tell me more about it. 743 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,426 But the ones we've written together 744 00:44:47,765 --> 00:44:49,171 are just things we've worked out together in the studio, 745 00:44:49,499 --> 00:44:51,280 with somebody, you know, anyone had right idea. 746 00:44:51,315 --> 00:44:53,759 If you had to do it all over again, do you think 747 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,239 you'd go the same route again? As far as, you know, now that you 748 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,222 realise the demands that are put on you as a tremendous success? 749 00:44:58,562 --> 00:45:00,566 I'd do it 100 times over, if I could. I love it. 750 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:01,719 Good. Thank you so much. 751 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:04,784 Let me swing over here and talk to Keith and to Mick. 752 00:45:04,819 --> 00:45:07,881 These are the two that are supposed to be all the writing talent. 753 00:45:07,916 --> 00:45:09,799 You fellows get together and do most of the writing, right? 754 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,217 Yeah, that's right. A lot of it. You know, some of it. 755 00:45:12,252 --> 00:45:15,159 Do you have a particular inspiration for some of your songs that seem 756 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:16,348 to springboard them out? 757 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,834 Well, I don't know. Ask Keith. 758 00:45:18,869 --> 00:45:21,347 I don't really think so, no. 759 00:45:21,382 --> 00:45:23,520 It just happens, you know? It just happens. 760 00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:31,559 VOICE OF MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG Mick and Keith are wonderful songwriters. 761 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:32,919 CREATOR OF READY STEDY GO I mean, they're just great. 762 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,279 Extraordinary. 763 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,079 I mean, I couldn't admire them more. 764 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,518 They tended to write more about sex. 765 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,119 So from '64, '84... 766 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,829 Like, for 20 years they were just turning them out. 767 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,081 I mean, they're classic rock and roll songs. 768 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,787 I'd rate it as extraordinary. 769 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,079 VOICE OF BILL WYMAN You see, the trouble was by 1963, 770 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,159 when Mick and Keith were writing the songs and all that, 771 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,199 Andrew was trying to promote Keith 772 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,759 and kind of dismiss Brian, get Brian out of the way. 773 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:14,759 And so what he did was he stopped me, Charlie and Brian 774 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:19,213 from doing any interviews with any of the newspapers, any interviews at all, 775 00:46:19,248 --> 00:46:21,353 and gave them all to Mick and Keith. 776 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,155 And I think when we talked on the phone ages ago, 777 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,011 you mentioned that he did something with Jimi Hendrix. 778 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,255 Yes. - Some play. - Yeah. 779 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:36,840 No-one knows that. 780 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,200 What do I say? 781 00:46:48,269 --> 00:46:51,673 BRIAN AND JIM PLAYING 782 00:46:54,894 --> 00:46:58,954 BRIAN AND JIMI OFTEN PLAYED TOGETHER 783 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,877 And I got Brian trying to write a song with that guy, 784 00:47:20,912 --> 00:47:24,067 Michael Aldred, of Ready Steady Go! 785 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,340 But they're unique things that I just happened to get, and... 786 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,342 they shouldn't be... - Was the song good? 787 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,810 Yeah, they were putting a song together. It was OK, yeah. 788 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,893 But he never had the courage to record it. 789 00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:44,763 BRIAN RECORDING WITH MICHAEL ALDRED Oh, fucking hell, turn it off! 790 00:47:45,505 --> 00:47:48,165 # So far away 791 00:47:48,938 --> 00:47:52,159 # like an angel 792 00:47:52,853 --> 00:47:57,539 # drifting through the halls of stars unknown 793 00:48:03,906 --> 00:48:09,673 # I know all her likes and dislikes, her story of succes 794 00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:14,039 No. It's difficult... - Oh, let's get... 795 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:15,760 Bleurgh! 796 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,358 He never played me a song he'd written, 797 00:48:20,966 --> 00:48:22,387 so it was quite hard to know 798 00:48:22,823 --> 00:48:26,150 VOICE OF MICK JAGGER really if he wanted to do songs with us that he'd written. 799 00:48:26,185 --> 00:48:29,086 I think he did, but he was very shy and all that, 800 00:48:29,258 --> 00:48:32,380 I think he found it rather hard to lay it down to us, you know, 801 00:48:32,415 --> 00:48:34,140 that "This was a song and "it went like this." 802 00:48:34,175 --> 00:48:38,111 And we probably sort of didn't even think - because he didn't do it, 803 00:48:38,146 --> 00:48:41,452 we didn't try and bring it out of him, probably, 804 00:48:41,487 --> 00:48:46,165 which was... I suppose a bit insensitive of us. 805 00:48:54,389 --> 00:48:58,188 ZOUZOU GIRLFRIEND 1965 806 00:48:58,823 --> 00:49:00,525 I arrived to New Year's Eve 807 00:49:01,412 --> 00:49:06,418 it was awful because his girlfriend, Linda Lawrence, was still there. 808 00:49:07,019 --> 00:49:08,496 And that's how it started. 809 00:49:08,531 --> 00:49:12,585 Yeah. I think we we look good together, yeah. 810 00:49:12,603 --> 00:49:17,310 And I think he always tried to have girls who look a bit like him. 811 00:49:17,852 --> 00:49:19,088 You know. 812 00:49:19,695 --> 00:49:22,022 I had my hair cut like him, you know. 813 00:49:23,405 --> 00:49:25,872 He didn't like himself, and at the same time he wanted 814 00:49:26,308 --> 00:49:28,866 to have people who looked like himself. 815 00:49:29,534 --> 00:49:31,972 Which is quite strange, again. 816 00:49:39,049 --> 00:49:41,226 He was playing guitar at home, 817 00:49:42,403 --> 00:49:47,130 but he was not really composing, because I think he was not sure of himself. 818 00:49:47,870 --> 00:49:49,485 He wasn't sure that it was right 819 00:49:49,970 --> 00:49:53,926 He wasn't sure that what he was doing was good. 820 00:49:54,951 --> 00:49:58,612 And jet he had nobody around to tell him to do it. 821 00:50:01,352 --> 00:50:06,340 I thought it was really funny I never listened to obe album 822 00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:09,929 of the Rolling Stones in Brian's place. Never. 823 00:50:10,713 --> 00:50:14,749 You know, Brian was completely fan of the Beatles. 824 00:50:16,095 --> 00:50:19,109 I mean, all day long we were listenig the Beatles. 825 00:50:19,851 --> 00:50:21,617 Or the Righteous Brothers. 826 00:50:22,586 --> 00:50:26,312 But, never, never, never The Rolling Stones. 827 00:50:27,699 --> 00:50:31,253 BRIAN PLAYED ON THE BEATLES' "YOU KNOW MY NAME" Composition: John Lennon / Paul McCaetney 828 00:50:36,942 --> 00:50:40,606 Brian was really nervous that night, 'cause he's walking in on Beatles session. 829 00:50:41,926 --> 00:50:43,534 And I kinda though he'd bring a guitar, you know 830 00:50:43,856 --> 00:50:45,200 VOICE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY But no, he brought his saxophone. 831 00:50:46,193 --> 00:50:48,298 He wad nervous to the point of ahaking a little bit. 832 00:50:49,176 --> 00:50:50,563 He was like a topey sax player. 833 00:50:51,217 --> 00:50:53,175 So I go, "Aha! We've got just the tune." 834 00:50:56,490 --> 00:50:57,401 He was very nice. 835 00:50:58,409 --> 00:50:59,847 Brian was a very nice guy. 836 00:51:01,295 --> 00:51:03,786 I remember sort of laughing a lot with him, you know, giggling a lot. 837 00:51:07,442 --> 00:51:09,624 VOICE OF ZOUZOU The only person of the group 838 00:51:09,963 --> 00:51:12,114 who came to visit him was Bill. 839 00:51:14,894 --> 00:51:20,282 I never, never, never see Mick or Keith coming to visit him. 840 00:51:20,328 --> 00:51:22,067 Never, never, never. 841 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,479 VOICE OF BARRY MILES Each member of the band had a had a court. 842 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,439 And the way the hierarchy worked was the Stones would always 843 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,349 have to go to the Beatles' places. 844 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,655 So the Beatles would never go to their house. 845 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,999 You know, that was the order of things, 846 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,719 a very strict class system at work. 847 00:51:49,462 --> 00:51:51,432 in his big chauffeur-driven car 848 00:51:51,768 --> 00:51:54,700 where we had a loudspeaker mounted underneatg the car, 849 00:51:56,982 --> 00:51:59,925 And aheas of us was Brian's Austin Princess. 850 00:52:00,810 --> 00:52:04,241 John got on the mic, "Pull over now, you're under arrest." 851 00:52:04,825 --> 00:52:06,779 "Brian Jones, pull ocer, now!" 852 00:52:07,273 --> 00:52:09,997 "Oh my god!! Shitting gimself, you know. - "Oh, holy shit." 853 00:52:10,353 --> 00:52:12,191 And we'rw going, "Ohhh, fuck off! 854 00:52:14,133 --> 00:52:16,367 Brian was a very nice guy, he was very nervous. 855 00:52:17,619 --> 00:52:19,663 Had always a sort of pleasent word. 856 00:52:29,654 --> 00:52:33,932 He was doing so many stupid things all the time. 857 00:52:34,327 --> 00:52:38,582 And I was also taking the same shut with him, you know. Speed. 858 00:52:40,308 --> 00:52:43,543 And we didn't sleep for days and says and says 859 00:52:44,001 --> 00:52:46,812 and once a week we were sleeping one night 860 00:52:47,333 --> 00:52:51,910 and then again and again and again, clubs and everything, you know. 861 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,188 You know, all night long, all day long. 862 00:52:56,024 --> 00:52:59,443 He was also having breakdowns very often, 863 00:52:59,886 --> 00:53:01,874 he was craying at night, he was... 864 00:53:02,327 --> 00:53:03,609 I mean, yeah. He was really... 865 00:53:04,288 --> 00:53:09,897 He was, uh... he wonted to have, uh, his, uh... 866 00:53:10,393 --> 00:53:12,305 things, you know, here. To.... 867 00:53:13,167 --> 00:53:16,339 He wanted to go to a clinic to be... 868 00:53:16,965 --> 00:53:20,772 yeah, and I was... - Trayed to have a facelift? - Yeah. 869 00:53:22,337 --> 00:53:27,338 I was telling Brian, "You're only 24 years old, yoz're not going to start now", you know. 870 00:53:28,076 --> 00:53:30,975 "It's ridiculous, you shoud just drink a little bir less." 871 00:53:31,695 --> 00:53:33,428 Because he was drinking from the 872 00:53:34,516 --> 00:53:39,027 morning to the last minute in the night. 873 00:53:39,666 --> 00:53:41,433 He was drinking scotch Coke. 874 00:53:43,373 --> 00:53:47,573 Scotch Coke all day, all night. All the time, you know. 875 00:53:48,139 --> 00:53:51,982 He was never drunk, because with the speed, you know, didn't make him drunk. 876 00:53:52,418 --> 00:53:57,570 Bur he was really doing every stupid thing you can imagine. 877 00:54:04,887 --> 00:54:06,231 I think he was not so happy. 878 00:54:07,378 --> 00:54:12,544 I think he was sort of sad, and I think also that when he was crying at night 879 00:54:13,247 --> 00:54:16,720 and that all those things were only symptoms. 880 00:54:27,524 --> 00:54:32,246 He was worried of so many people looking at him. 881 00:54:34,228 --> 00:54:37,900 You know, Brian was much more happy when he was alone. 882 00:54:43,524 --> 00:54:46,338 I think he liked drinking and I think he liked drugs but they weren't very good for him. 883 00:54:46,681 --> 00:54:47,936 VOICE OF CHARLIE WATTS 884 00:54:47,971 --> 00:54:51,264 I don't think they're good for anyone, but he didn't... 885 00:54:51,609 --> 00:54:54,421 He wasn't strong enough, mentally or physically, to take any of it. 886 00:54:54,700 --> 00:54:55,959 And of course he did everything... 887 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,665 Brian was one of those people that did everything to excess. 888 00:55:01,047 --> 00:55:02,462 VOICE OF BILL WYMAN We were in Clearwater, Florida. 889 00:55:03,421 --> 00:55:06,693 Me and Brian picked up these two girls in the coctail ba. 890 00:55:07,331 --> 00:55:09,625 Cute, two cute girls. We went to bed with them. 891 00:55:12,268 --> 00:55:16,378 Strange as it was, the very same night Keith wrote the basics of "Satisfaction" 892 00:55:16,415 --> 00:55:18,714 he says, in Clearwater, Florida. 893 00:55:18,823 --> 00:55:19,823 You know, at nighttime he woke up with that 894 00:55:21,921 --> 00:55:25,943 with the idea of "Satisfaction". Can't get no - da, da, da, Satisfaction 895 00:55:27,310 --> 00:55:30,974 And when he woke up in the morning, and listened to it and all that 896 00:55:30,974 --> 00:55:31,907 him and Mick 897 00:55:32,961 --> 00:55:36,831 thought it was a pretty okey song for an album. 898 00:55:40,292 --> 00:55:44,175 And then it became this classic fucking track, you know. 899 00:55:45,889 --> 00:55:47,459 They're going da-da, da-da-daaa 900 00:55:47,863 --> 00:55:50,300 and I'm going dun-dun dee-deedle-eeee-dee 901 00:55:50,613 --> 00:55:52,672 So Brian just played the walking rhythm behind him. 902 00:55:53,479 --> 00:55:54,385 And it kinda worked. 903 00:55:54,548 --> 00:56:00,439 And remember, no matter what anyone says... rock on. 904 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:06,159 # I can't get no satisfaction 905 00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,855 # I can't get no satisfaction... 906 00:56:12,144 --> 00:56:14,197 Whenever he put "Satisfaction" 907 00:56:14,582 --> 00:56:16,475 VOICE OF ZOUZOU he was going mad. Mad man. 908 00:56:17,868 --> 00:56:21,022 He was telling that Mick and Keith writing shit 909 00:56:21,022 --> 00:56:23,972 and he couldn't stand the music they were doing. 910 00:56:25,064 --> 00:56:27,520 He said, "It's not the music I wanted to do". 911 00:56:27,849 --> 00:56:32,808 "I made a group to do some blues and rock & roll". 912 00:56:33,368 --> 00:56:35,188 And, you know, he said 913 00:56:35,541 --> 00:56:41,341 "Look at this, it's vulgar, it's awful, it's out of tune, it's nothing." 914 00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:43,706 The trouble with Brian was 915 00:56:43,707 --> 00:56:45,490 VOICE OF BILL WYMAN he wasn't very well a lot of the time. 916 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,826 So he was often ill. 917 00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:52,999 We'd be on tour and Brian would get sick, and he'd be in 918 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,559 hospital for five days and we had to play without him. 919 00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,437 Just the four of us, you know. 920 00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,350 Bass, drum, guitar. 921 00:57:01,385 --> 00:57:04,755 And you're playing all them songs that need more than one guitar, 922 00:57:04,790 --> 00:57:06,169 and you've only got one guitar. 923 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,048 So I had to double-up on bass, the bass playing, 924 00:57:11,083 --> 00:57:12,159 and help Keith out, you know, 925 00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,090 and Keith had to play a bit more than he would normally play, 926 00:57:15,125 --> 00:57:17,062 playing partly rhythm, partly lead. 927 00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,270 It was tough, you know. 928 00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:25,739 So he was very unreliable at times in the later period of his life. 929 00:57:25,774 --> 00:57:27,907 You know, the last... maybe three years. 930 00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,605 Brian used to get very paranoid about being made fun of. 931 00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:36,899 You know, he always said, "They're talking about me and they're..." 932 00:57:36,934 --> 00:57:38,967 You know, when we were waiting in a... 933 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,815 When we were staying over in a hotel or something. 934 00:57:45,063 --> 00:57:47,131 Mick and Keith would always tease him 935 00:57:48,134 --> 00:57:49,806 It was like any group of guys. 936 00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:54,279 RONNI SCHNEIDER, US TOUR MANAGER The classic example that I had of that was at the hotel in New York 937 00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,319 when Dylan was coming to visit him. 938 00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:57,981 You know, he was very friendly with Dylan. 939 00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,075 So Mick and Keith - Brian's room was next to mine, 940 00:58:01,110 --> 00:58:02,737 so Mick and Keith came into my room. 941 00:58:02,772 --> 00:58:04,680 They said, "Oh...", and they were very devilish. 942 00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:08,197 And Keith goes over and grabs a water glass that I had, 943 00:58:08,232 --> 00:58:11,393 and he puts it against the wall so he could listen in to Brian's room. 944 00:58:11,428 --> 00:58:14,510 And Mick goes over to the house telephone, my phone in the room, 945 00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,419 and calls Brian's room. 946 00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,207 And then immediately he says, "Hello, Mr Jones. 947 00:58:19,242 --> 00:58:21,508 "You have Mr Zimmerman for Mr Jones." 948 00:58:21,543 --> 00:58:24,363 And he was imitating putting Dylan on the phone. 949 00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,919 And then when he was on the phone, he says, "Oh, Brian, I think 950 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,239 "you're the best guy in the group," that kind of... 951 00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,639 And Brian's like, "Shut up, you guys! I know you're..." 952 00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,464 And that was the kind of stuff that was going on. 953 00:58:36,391 --> 00:58:38,302 MARIANNE FAITHFULL MICK'S GIRLFRIEND 954 00:58:38,337 --> 00:58:41,079 # Show me the train... 955 00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,365 Already there had been shit going on. 956 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,959 VOICE OF MARIANNE FAITHFULL You know, Brian was in very bad shape. 957 00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,999 He couldn't get into the States. 958 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,639 And they didn't know what to do, and this and that and the other, 959 00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,239 you know, of just scrambling all the way along. 960 00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,639 It wasn't as bad as it was going to get later. 961 00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,199 TALKING WITH HER BIOGRAPHER DAVID DALTON Well, I read an interesting thing Keith said about this, 962 00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:03,018 that they started making fun of Brian so as not to get mad at him. 963 00:59:03,053 --> 00:59:04,839 Ah! - Because it was a way... 964 00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,319 But I mean, of course, for somebody who's paranoid, 965 00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,799 this is just about the worst thing you can do. 966 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:13,479 But I mean that was Mick and Keith's, apparently, 967 00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,039 attitude to this thing, you know? 968 00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,493 Well, because, you know, I mean if anybody had really let their feelings go, 969 00:59:18,528 --> 00:59:19,847 they would've kill him. - Mm-hm. 970 00:59:21,857 --> 00:59:24,494 And you would kill them too. I mean, it was that bad. 971 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,479 VOICE OF DAVID DALTON I think Marianne sympathised with Brian. 972 00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:35,319 MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S BIOGRAPHER And Marianne of course was not in much better shape because of drugs. 973 00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:39,959 She knew him very well and had, you know, had an affair with him. 974 00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:45,109 Marianne felt that she had become a real drag on Mick. 975 00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:51,759 And there's a horrible conversation where she overhears Ahmet Ertegun 976 00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:56,799 AHMET ERTEGUN saying to Mick, "You've got to get rid of Marianne, 977 00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,079 PRESIDENT ATLANTIC RECORDS THE STONES' LABEL "you know, if the band is going to function. 978 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:04,039 "It's having a really negative effect." 979 01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:08,217 And so in that sense I think she absolutely identified with Brian. 980 01:00:11,723 --> 01:00:13,741 ANITA PALLENBERG GIRLFRIEND 1965 - 1967 981 01:00:14,524 --> 01:00:16,442 Anita Pallenberg was a massive influence on Brian. 982 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,723 She was credited with transforming both Brian and the Stones. 983 01:00:22,412 --> 01:00:25,293 I was with Brian the first time when he met Anita 984 01:00:26,419 --> 01:00:27,360 VOICE OF ZOUZOU 985 01:00:27,737 --> 01:00:29,622 She was traying to grab Brian, you know 986 01:00:30,921 --> 01:00:33,643 Brian was holding my hand, we were sitting on the couch 987 01:00:34,095 --> 01:00:36,807 two of us, and she was traying to grab him, you know 988 01:00:38,248 --> 01:00:40,630 and turning down the light and everything, 989 01:00:41,255 --> 01:00:45,283 and starting to almost take clothes off, you know 990 01:00:47,030 --> 01:00:53,669 I knew she would take him through the sex adventure. 991 01:00:55,531 --> 01:01:01,336 I knew Brian waa on a bad, bad, bad trip, you know. 992 01:01:03,723 --> 01:01:05,852 And she was really powerful with him, you know. 993 01:01:06,524 --> 01:01:08,246 She was the one who would decide everything. 994 01:01:09,324 --> 01:01:13,093 But she had... she was the man in the relation, you know. 995 01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:18,079 She was an incredibly interesting person, who'd done a lot, 996 01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,559 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA and was on the make, in the way that he was. 997 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:26,839 And she craved new experiences, you know, in the way that he was. 998 01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,679 But I think he was thinking of leaving the band. 999 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,279 I think he probably could have and probably should have left 1000 01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,439 the band for his own, you know, health and sanity. 1001 01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,519 But I think, by teaming up with Anita, he knew they'd be 1002 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:40,479 a real phenomenon, which they were. 1003 01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:45,840 And that really launched his kind of last great... last great ride. 1004 01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,475 Oui, oui, je le comprends. 1005 01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:55,519 There was such sort of... erotic power to their pairing 1006 01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,559 and such glamour. 1007 01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,959 And also, you know, he wants to be glamorous. 1008 01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:03,359 He wanted to be seen as a main player in the Stones, 1009 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,599 and she'd helped that happen. 1010 01:02:06,867 --> 01:02:08,953 BRIAN AND ANITA BOTH 24 you know, like a little unit, 1011 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,643 whispering, talking to each other, giggling, 1012 01:02:13,452 --> 01:02:16,389 speaking in sort of a code that, you know, 1013 01:02:16,389 --> 01:02:18,763 VOICE OF GERED MANKOWITZ intimate couples can have sometimes. 1014 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:20,381 ROLLING STONE'S PHOTOGRAPHER And I think they were doing 1015 01:02:20,552 --> 01:02:22,714 a lot of acid and just hanging out. 1016 01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,017 She was staggeringly beautiful, 1017 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:33,136 had extraordinary physical and sexual confidence. 1018 01:02:33,171 --> 01:02:37,932 You know, when she walked in a room, you know, guys' eyes popped out 1019 01:02:37,967 --> 01:02:40,561 and tongues rolled out, like in a cartoon. 1020 01:02:48,222 --> 01:02:50,497 Succes and fame, I don't think it is very important. 1021 01:02:51,883 --> 01:02:53,764 I mean, in England I was always with the Rolling Stones. 1022 01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,710 And more fame and succes than that, I mean, nobody could dream about. 1023 01:02:58,521 --> 01:03:03,134 So, I don't really aim for succes. I just try to have a good time. 1024 01:03:06,027 --> 01:03:06,922 Make a bit of money. 1025 01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:10,945 VOICE OF DAVID DALTON The Rolling Stones, they were, 1026 01:03:10,946 --> 01:03:14,079 MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S BIOGRAPHER as Marianne would put it, were a bunch of yobs. 1027 01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:18,960 They were very talented, but they weren't educated or sophisticated. 1028 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:26,199 Marianne and Anita connected them with all the European intellectuals 1029 01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,079 ROBERT FRASER GALLERY OPENING and film-makers. 1030 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,325 VOICE OF MARIANNE FAITHFULL We were the right women for that time 1031 01:03:30,737 --> 01:03:33,001 to enable whatever had to happen to happen. 1032 01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:39,159 And probably the same is true of Brian and Anita and Keith and Anita. 1033 01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,639 They seemed to be a proto-aristocracy. 1034 01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,879 MICK AND PRINCESS MARGARET Mick at one point said, 1035 01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:48,040 "Well, the only thing left is me and the Queen." 1036 01:03:51,830 --> 01:03:53,179 LUGALLA ESTATE, IRELAND 1037 01:03:53,214 --> 01:03:57,077 Brian and Anita would spend time at the vast Guinness estate in Ireland. 1038 01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:04,839 This is Mick go-karting at Leslie Castle, 1039 01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:09,445 a massive Irish estate that has been in the Leslie family for 1.000 years. 1040 01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,800 A whole new world opened up to them. 1041 01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,509 I think it was the great changing of the old order, wasn't it? 1042 01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:23,999 LADY JANE ORMSBY GORE I loved the sort of mixture, 1043 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,479 the juxtaposition then of the Stones and the Beatles 1044 01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,999 <b>INSPIRATION FOR "LADY JANE" (JAGGER / RICHARDS) and the royals and the thing, you know? 1045 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,079 It suddenly was all... 1046 01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:35,199 Everybody and anybody were part, part of the same thing. 1047 01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:36,478 It was excellent. 1048 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,159 It was my sister Victoria's birthday, and that was a sort of 1049 01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:47,879 wonderful melting pot with the Kennedys and Princess Margaret 1050 01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:52,795 and the Beatles and the Stones and then all my relations. 1051 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:55,618 Brian definitely came. 1052 01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,199 Brian was the most sort of sociable at that time. 1053 01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,839 He was much the most sort of gregarious. 1054 01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:05,559 So it was it was the informality, I think, of it that was part of 1055 01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,850 the whole thing of the '60s. 1056 01:05:07,885 --> 01:05:13,599 Never mind who was there, whether it was rock stars or royalty 1057 01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:18,399 or scrubbers from... the East End. 1058 01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,399 It really didn't make any difference. 1059 01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:27,119 Brian's best friend at the time was Tara Browne. 1060 01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,959 TARA BROWNE He was the Guinness heir and owner of Dandie Fashions 1061 01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:31,520 FRIEND OF BRIAN'S on the King's Road. 1062 01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,841 The so-called Swinging London was actually a very small group of people, 1063 01:05:38,876 --> 01:05:41,625 and Brian and Tara were right at the centre. 1064 01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:49,239 Tara was immortalised in the Beatles song A Day in the Life 1065 01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,559 when he had a tragic car accident. 1066 01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:56,040 "A DAY IN THE LIFE" Composition: John Lennon / Paul McCartney # He blew his mind out in a car 1067 01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:02,239 # He didn't notice that the lights had changed 1068 01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:07,045 # A crowd of people stood and stared... 1069 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:14,200 Brian was devastated by Tara's death, the first of that intimate circle. 1070 01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,839 Brian would later date his girlfriend, Suki Poitier, 1071 01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:24,280 who was with Tara in the accident but miraculously survived. 1072 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,479 And we all wore the Dandie Fashions look, 1073 01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,120 which was so much the spirit of the time. 1074 01:06:35,354 --> 01:06:36,799 BRIAN'S FLAT AT COURTFIELD ROAD 1075 01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:42,639 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA Anita was pushing him to dress more outrageously. 1076 01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:49,621 He was the archetypal dandy, more than anyone, you know, in '66, '67. 1077 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,519 At that point you can see the power dynamics shift 1078 01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,817 within the band, where Keith is coming back to Brian again. 1079 01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,759 So for a period, yeah, he was back with Keith, because he was cool 1080 01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:20,045 and happening, and obviously at that time they did Ruby Tuesday. 1081 01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,839 VOICE OF BILL WYMAN He was doing all that stuff without asking anyone. 1082 01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:30,079 He'd pick up a flute or just anything that was handy 1083 01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:34,999 and just create something out of it which wasn't there originally. 1084 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:39,480 And it embellished the song so much that it became the catch. 1085 01:07:41,978 --> 01:07:43,849 "RUBY TUESDAY" Composition: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards 1086 01:07:43,884 --> 01:07:46,439 # Or in the darkest night 1087 01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,399 # No-one knows... 1088 01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,039 # Do, doo! Can you hear him? 1089 01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,959 # She comes and goes... 1090 01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,719 # Do, do, do... 1091 01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:58,799 # Goodbye, Ruby... 1092 01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:00,319 He just finds a flute, 1093 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,968 and he finds a little thing he can play on it. 1094 01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:08,959 Brian's self-loathing came out in the way he treated other people. 1095 01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,148 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA He and Anita particularly were known 1096 01:08:11,339 --> 01:08:13,069 for spiking people's drinks. 1097 01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:17,279 Anita would encourage him for that kind of outrageous behaviour. 1098 01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:19,599 They would just mock people who hadn't... 1099 01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:22,199 Who weren't turned on in the same way that they were. 1100 01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:26,379 So that was a thing - "We're the hip kids - we can make fun "of other people." 1101 01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:28,560 LINDA LAWRENCE For instance, 1102 01:08:28,595 --> 01:08:30,181 WITH BRIAN'S SON, JULIAN Linda Lawrence came. 1103 01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:34,415 I think she was short of money for young Julian. 1104 01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,959 I think they were up in the flat, Brian and Anita, 1105 01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:42,720 and they just laughed at her and wouldn't let her come in. 1106 01:08:43,644 --> 01:08:44,753 I felt devastated. 1107 01:08:45,348 --> 01:08:46,457 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE They looked out the window at me 1108 01:08:46,492 --> 01:08:49,256 and they just didn't came down and open the door. 1109 01:08:50,174 --> 01:08:53,819 That was a horrible feeling that I wasn't being let in. 1110 01:08:54,188 --> 01:08:54,966 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA Did you, I mean you... 1111 01:08:55,482 --> 01:08:58,168 because up 'till now you've been very sympathetic towards him. 1112 01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:00,806 There must have been a point where you just said, "You bastard". 1113 01:09:01,420 --> 01:09:03,578 I was very depressed, but I never thought he was a bastard. 1114 01:09:04,586 --> 01:09:06,124 So, way do you think he acted like that, then? 1115 01:09:06,938 --> 01:09:07,827 What was the explanation? 1116 01:09:08,605 --> 01:09:10,633 As far as I'm concerned that was Anita's influence. 1117 01:09:11,028 --> 01:09:13,364 That's as simple as I can say it, because that's what they had. 1118 01:09:14,964 --> 01:09:18,552 Brian, when I was with him, didn't have any of those... ways of thinking. 1119 01:09:19,768 --> 01:09:23,044 When he started hanging out with her, his dark side came out. 1120 01:09:23,618 --> 01:09:26,066 Which would only be natural, because I know what that is. 1121 01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:29,552 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA So whilst he could still 1122 01:09:29,553 --> 01:09:32,119 make things happen in the studio, 1123 01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:35,410 he still was holding some power even whilst he was 1124 01:09:35,934 --> 01:09:37,670 this kind of liability at the same time. 1125 01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:42,399 You know, he was pretty dominant in terms of the sounds. 1126 01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:46,719 You know, they needed to get a bit more exotic. 1127 01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,005 Paint It Black, he's embellished it again. 1128 01:09:49,587 --> 01:09:51,260 "PAINT IT, BLACK" Bass pedals. 1129 01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:54,680 Composition: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards There's Brian. 1130 01:09:56,280 --> 01:10:01,920 # I see a line of cars and they're all painted black... 1131 01:10:04,922 --> 01:10:06,222 ERIC BURDON THE ANIMALS 1132 01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,799 Your head goes into, like... 1133 01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,374 You're suddenly in the Middle East 1134 01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,302 or Far East... 1135 01:10:14,337 --> 01:10:19,399 That made me realise that there was a very inventive guy there. 1136 01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:22,039 ERIC BURDON AND BRIAN I mean, he was really a... 1137 01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:23,560 bit of a genius. 1138 01:10:25,148 --> 01:10:26,882 DEGREE OF MURDER - 1967 FILM MUSIC COMPOSED BY BRIAN 1139 01:10:26,985 --> 01:10:27,985 Are you sure about that? (?) 1140 01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:33,422 The Volker Schlondorff film "Mord und Totschlag" was a big deal 1141 01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:35,359 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA for Anita and for Brian. 1142 01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:40,039 It was a starring role for Anita, with a really good director, 1143 01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:44,239 and it was really pretty like their own - Brian and Anita's - 1144 01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,279 relationship, where there was this constant provocation 1145 01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,440 and escalation of provocation. 1146 01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:58,840 Hau ab jetzt. 1147 01:11:03,666 --> 01:11:08,704 With Anita, Brian found a partner, a match up to his level. 1148 01:11:10,771 --> 01:11:13,076 VOLKER SCHL�NDORFF So, I guess they got a lot of 1149 01:11:19,559 --> 01:11:22,816 I mean, it certainly was never tender relationship. 1150 01:11:24,762 --> 01:11:26,482 Even though, I mean I was not in the bedroom. 1151 01:11:27,285 --> 01:11:32,814 But sometimes you couldn't help overhearing or whatever. 1152 01:11:34,882 --> 01:11:38,722 The rwo of them were in this frenzy. They were crazed out. 1153 01:11:39,505 --> 01:11:44,172 Which also always start with the way they behave in hotels, and I mean 1154 01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:50,509 why the hell would you, you know, whatever they did... turn down curtains 1155 01:11:50,827 --> 01:11:53,511 when they felt they needed more daylight. 1156 01:11:55,774 --> 01:12:02,122 Or spill red wine or whatnot all over stuff. It's... 1157 01:12:04,267 --> 01:12:08,043 It was beyond me to understand such bahaviors. 1158 01:12:08,725 --> 01:12:12,411 Anita, you are 22 years old, where are you from? 1159 01:12:14,089 --> 01:12:19,611 I'm German by blood, but Italian forever. 1160 01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,946 And Anita was also kind of putting oil on the flames. 1161 01:12:24,661 --> 01:12:27,869 If there were people who were scandalized by their behavior 1162 01:12:28,188 --> 01:12:29,576 she'd shout back at them, 1163 01:12:30,023 --> 01:12:34,763 "You're all backward bourgeois, this is the new lifestyle." 1164 01:12:35,704 --> 01:12:38,500 "Get lost." "Go home and die." 1165 01:12:43,468 --> 01:12:45,874 He was the one who asked to do the music for the film. 1166 01:12:46,668 --> 01:12:50,414 Couple of months later, when I came to London to actually do the recording 1167 01:12:50,414 --> 01:12:52,824 I found out that he didn't prepared anything. 1168 01:12:55,066 --> 01:12:58,234 He was not in his proper mind anymore 1169 01:12:58,591 --> 01:13:03,027 Anita said it was because of the drugs he was taking. 1170 01:13:03,686 --> 01:13:06,185 He was experimenting with anytihing. 1171 01:13:07,946 --> 01:13:11,980 So, yeah, ultimately something come together, but it's not... 1172 01:13:12,390 --> 01:13:13,790 it's nothing memorable. 1173 01:13:17,181 --> 01:13:21,026 1967 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL I think the drugs destroyed his already failing discipline. 1174 01:13:21,762 --> 01:13:24,483 And you can't be an artist without discipline. 1175 01:13:25,943 --> 01:13:29,325 He probably knew that this could only lead ultimately 1176 01:13:29,919 --> 01:13:31,583 to self-destruction. 1177 01:13:38,401 --> 01:13:39,335 Ultimately, 1178 01:13:41,119 --> 01:13:44,187 when she was not able to control him any longer, 1179 01:13:46,739 --> 01:13:47,803 to the next Stone. 1180 01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:50,192 Wasn't very far. 1181 01:13:51,841 --> 01:13:55,261 Actually, in the Cannes hotel it was from one room to the othwr. 1182 01:13:56,280 --> 01:14:00,135 And, uh, I... that's what happened because 1183 01:14:00,135 --> 01:14:03,667 one morning I came into Keith's room 1184 01:14:04,048 --> 01:14:07,693 and he had breakfast on his bed and, uh, 1185 01:14:08,012 --> 01:14:09,529 and Anita was next to him now. 1186 01:14:11,268 --> 01:14:18,058 She arrived with Brian, and couple of days later left with Keith. 1187 01:14:18,802 --> 01:14:19,788 So, it's, a... 1188 01:14:21,463 --> 01:14:24,267 an envious position to be in for a woman. 1189 01:14:28,143 --> 01:14:31,599 Of course, Anita didn't have a credit card of her own 1190 01:14:32,145 --> 01:14:33,165 or a checkbook. 1191 01:14:33,689 --> 01:14:37,607 I think she always had to go to Brian to get a bundle of money. 1192 01:14:38,569 --> 01:14:41,028 Because she lived the lifestyle of the Stones. 1193 01:14:42,543 --> 01:14:44,971 And I think she got hooked on that lifestyle 1194 01:14:45,641 --> 01:14:47,025 so she did not just 1195 01:14:48,165 --> 01:14:52,538 leave Brian and walk off and work as a secretary 1196 01:14:53,351 --> 01:14:57,884 but she swirched over to another one who was just as rich. 1197 01:14:59,833 --> 01:15:01,702 VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS Back in London there's this sort of tearful scene 1198 01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,930 and Anita said no, you're just too much of an arsehole to live with. 1199 01:15:07,773 --> 01:15:08,891 Keith and I got something goin'. 1200 01:15:10,039 --> 01:15:13,069 But that kind of was the final nail in the coffin with me and Brian, you kniw. 1201 01:15:13,545 --> 01:15:15,919 He'd never forgive me for that, and I don't blame him. 1202 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:20,456 BRIAN AND LINDA KEITH When Keith went with Anita, 1203 01:15:20,491 --> 01:15:21,999 Brian decided to start going out 1204 01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,680 with Linda Keith, who used to be Keith's girlfriend. 1205 01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:28,359 KEITH AND LINDA KEITH All their relationships were 1206 01:15:28,360 --> 01:15:30,746 always slightly incestuous. 1207 01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,559 Marianne, you know, 1208 01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:37,160 when she gave up with Mick, she went with Brian... 1209 01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,079 and then she went with Keith. 1210 01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:42,744 So she went with three of them. 1211 01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:48,519 Anita went with Brian, she went with Mick, she went with Keith. 1212 01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:51,039 It was all very mixed up, you know? 1213 01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:55,423 Girls would end up being with another member of the band. 1214 01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,359 Seeing the state of Brian, 1215 01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:02,004 his parents finally reached out to help him. 1216 01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:04,865 VOICE OF LEWIS JONES What I firmly believe 1217 01:16:04,866 --> 01:16:07,959 BRIAN'S FA4HER was the turning point in Brian's life... 1218 01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:12,460 was when he lost the only girl he ever really loved. 1219 01:16:13,520 --> 01:16:17,799 When his mother and I saw him for the first time for some months 1220 01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:22,719 after this happening, we were quite shocked by the changes 1221 01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:26,799 of his appearance, and in our opinion he was never the same boy again. 1222 01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:31,439 He changed suddenly and alarmingly 1223 01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:37,999 from a bright, enthusiastic young man to a quiet and morose 1224 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,600 and inward-looking young man. 1225 01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:48,039 Brian and Linda Keith's relationship was tempestuous and drug-fuelled, 1226 01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,920 with Brian recovering from Anita and Linda from Keith. 1227 01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:58,919 Linda ended up taking an overdose in Brian's flat, which she survived. 1228 01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:01,319 Brian wrote this to her... 1229 01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,920 "Dearest darling Linda, I'm presently very smashed. 1230 01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,239 "Please be with me. 1231 01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:09,952 "I'm so lonely by myself. 1232 01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,679 "I need you so badly and I love you so much. 1233 01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:15,999 "Please understand what fucked us up before, 1234 01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:18,622 "a terrible combination of events. 1235 01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:20,494 "Please let's start again. 1236 01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:24,814 "Please marry me. Please, please, please. 1237 01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:28,160 "All my love, Brian." 1238 01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:36,960 VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS It was a painful year, you know? 1239 01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:41,639 '67 was a year of change for everybody. 1240 01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:45,562 I mean, '67 was the explosion of the drug culture. 1241 01:17:47,970 --> 01:17:50,284 DRUGS and POP STARS Facts that will SHOCK you 1242 01:17:50,931 --> 01:17:51,929 1967 1243 01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:58,723 VOICE OF PAUL TRYNKA The whole infamous Stones drug bust 1244 01:17:59,129 --> 01:18:01,717 MPs ASK: WHY HANDCUFFS? all followed in the wake of News Of The World stories 1245 01:18:01,745 --> 01:18:04,743 that prided themselves in actually busting Mick Jagger 1246 01:18:04,778 --> 01:18:06,702 and proclaiming him a drug user. 1247 01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,334 The problem was it wasn't Mick. It was Brian. 1248 01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:13,924 He was hanging in a nightclub called Blazing 1249 01:18:13,925 --> 01:18:16,694 and boasting about being a druggy hipster. 1250 01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:20,590 He actually told the reporter he didn't do LSD much these days 1251 01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,923 now that everybody had taken it up and, you know, 1252 01:18:23,958 --> 01:18:25,604 he was doing it before anybody else. 1253 01:18:26,855 --> 01:18:27,717 MICK AND MARIANNE AT MICK'S COURT APPEARENCE 1254 01:18:27,752 --> 01:18:29,808 For Mick, Brian was the villain of the piece. 1255 01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:38,479 VOICE OF MARIANE FAITHFULL The only person who was really, really out of it on drugs was Brian. 1256 01:18:38,480 --> 01:18:39,999 This was like the last straw, 1257 01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,759 the straw that broke the camel's back with Brian. 1258 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,639 And I think it brought up a lot of bad feelings that were already 1259 01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:47,919 there about Brian. 1260 01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,839 Mick didn't know he'd end up in prison. 1261 01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:52,547 It was just dreadful. 1262 01:18:52,582 --> 01:18:55,359 But it was very frightening, because you saw the sort of the power 1263 01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,439 of the state, the power of the status quo, 1264 01:18:57,440 --> 01:19:01,176 the whole thing coming down on them - for nothing. 1265 01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:06,799 Mick was very, very, very desperate and just in... 1266 01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:08,919 It was a horrible thing. 1267 01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:10,959 I don't think he ever thought this sort of thing 1268 01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:13,839 would ever happen to him in his life. 1269 01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:19,119 And I must say, to my shame, I wasn't very compassionate at all. 1270 01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,971 If you need to cry, you cry. 1271 01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:25,161 It was a real moment of truth and vulnerability. 1272 01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:29,292 Needless to say, he never, ever showed it again. 1273 01:19:34,205 --> 01:19:36,092 VOIS OF PRINCE STASH KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA Brian and I were vusted. 1274 01:19:36,399 --> 01:19:38,990 They thought that if they could get Mick and Keith 1275 01:19:39,415 --> 01:19:42,452 then if they could get Brian that would be the end of the band. 1276 01:19:47,620 --> 01:19:53,645 PRINCE STASH AND BRIAN He was teribbly worried that his folks would think of him. 1277 01:19:54,759 --> 01:19:59,680 Because he'd been a bad boy throughout his teenage years 1278 01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:05,474 and now he was this successful musician and suddenly there was this disgrace. 1279 01:20:06,714 --> 01:20:09,962 You know, it was mortifying to be dragged into this thing. 1280 01:20:11,898 --> 01:20:14,927 He was very worried about what his parents might think. 1281 01:20:19,831 --> 01:20:23,618 He went behind the scenes to contact his parents. 1282 01:20:23,961 --> 01:20:26,923 He said, "Please don't think badly about me, and so far go. 1283 01:20:29,233 --> 01:20:31,794 I was at Robert Fraser's Mount St apartment 1284 01:20:32,843 --> 01:20:38,189 and he knocked like a ping-pong ball, everything as he crossed the room. 1285 01:20:38,619 --> 01:20:42,220 You know, he sort of bounced. He was in horrid state. 1286 01:20:43,416 --> 01:20:47,094 He came to see me at Paul McCartney's, Way he was in a horrid state, and 1287 01:20:47,614 --> 01:20:52,643 he was convinced Mick and Keith were picking on him and so on and so fort. 1288 01:20:56,949 --> 01:20:59,344 1968 THE ROLING STONES ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS 1289 01:20:59,617 --> 01:21:00,625 The phone rings and it's Brian. 1290 01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:02,930 VOICE OF MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG And he said, 1291 01:21:02,931 --> 01:21:05,799 DIRECTOR THE ROLLING STONES ROCK AND ROL CIRCUS "I'm not going... I'm not going to come tomorrow." 1292 01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:08,719 And I said... I said, "Huh? Why?" 1293 01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:10,959 And he said, "Because they are so mean to me." 1294 01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:13,119 And I said, "Who's so mean?" 1295 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:16,487 He said, "Mick and Keith, they are making my life hell." 1296 01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:20,724 Naively, I said, "Well, what would the Rolling Stones be without you?" 1297 01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:22,470 And anyway, I'm thinking, 1298 01:21:22,471 --> 01:21:23,839 MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG "What the fuck do we do with four 1299 01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:27,284 "Rolling Stones if we really are looking at five Rolling Stones?" 1300 01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:31,039 And so then he stopped, 1301 01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:34,258 he listened and he stopped crying, 1302 01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:36,999 and he said, "It's just been a hard day." 1303 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:40,719 And also, you don't know how much he's... I think he was drinking a lot. 1304 01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:44,199 I convinced him to come the next day. 1305 01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:46,719 There was something kind of childlike about him, 1306 01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:49,559 because then he had dressed kind of like a wizard. 1307 01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:54,719 Then when they got onstage at two in the morning, he was... 1308 01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:58,399 I would say he was drunk because he looked it, 1309 01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:04,360 and he could play the maracas and he could play the slide... 1310 01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:09,080 he could hardly play the guitar in the regular way. 1311 01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:14,679 He looked dreadful, really. 1312 01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,519 His big bags under his eyes. 1313 01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:19,560 I mean, really, bags under his eyes for a guy of 26. 1314 01:22:22,685 --> 01:22:24,065 BRIAN'S LAST APPEARANCE WITH THE ROLLING STONES 1315 01:22:24,100 --> 01:22:25,799 He was just gone. 1316 01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:27,639 Well, he wouldn't turn up half the time. 1317 01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:29,919 When he did turn up, he was not in any condition 1318 01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:31,959 to do anything, had to baby him. 1319 01:22:31,960 --> 01:22:33,894 And it was very sad. 1320 01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:39,199 VOICE OF MARIANNE FAITHFULL I saw him as another person with incredibly low self-esteem 1321 01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:43,759 who needed help not to be destroyed and ground underfoot. 1322 01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:47,599 And that's when I kind of realised what was going on 1323 01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,080 and how it was going to affect me. 1324 01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:57,439 That kind of ruthlessness, you know, the bit where they would pretend 1325 01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:00,679 to be recording Brian and not have him plugged in, 1326 01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:02,561 that was really terrible. 1327 01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:27,359 VOICE OF DAVID DALTON Both Marianne and Brian, they were victims of the Stones. 1328 01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:29,713 She realised she was no longer useful... 1329 01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:33,731 JUNE 9, 1969 and he was especially horrified 1330 01:23:33,732 --> 01:23:37,246 BRIAN KICKED OUT OF THE STONES to be ostracised from his band. 1331 01:23:39,942 --> 01:23:43,259 There was no serious way that we could consider going on the road with Brian. 1332 01:23:43,552 --> 01:23:44,724 VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS 1333 01:23:44,725 --> 01:23:48,374 So Mick and I had to go down and sort of tell Brian virtualy like, 1334 01:23:48,374 --> 01:23:49,426 "Hey you cock, you're fired." 1335 01:23:50,907 --> 01:23:54,206 The fact that he was expecting it made it kind of easier, I guess. 1336 01:23:54,596 --> 01:23:56,121 You know, he wasn't surprised. 1337 01:23:56,443 --> 01:23:59,044 I don't really even think he took it al in, he was already... 1338 01:24:01,541 --> 01:24:02,563 up in the stratosphere. 1339 01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:07,814 VOICE OF DAVID DALTON A rock group is sort of like a, 1340 01:24:07,815 --> 01:24:09,879 you know, a primitive tribe. 1341 01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:14,544 People are often killed in tribes, psychically, if they're expelled. 1342 01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,879 And a rock group is sort of like that. 1343 01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:21,759 I mean, their whole lifeblood comes from that bond. 1344 01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:27,120 Once they're of no use, that is... oddly fatal. 1345 01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,559 Like, nobody wants to talk to them or deal with them. 1346 01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:34,440 They just go off into the woods and die. 1347 01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:39,799 VOICE OF PENELOPE TREE I felt like he was very much the underdog. 1348 01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:44,679 He was lost and, you know, I just felt for him. 1349 01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:46,400 I felt that he had been... 1350 01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:50,759 badly treated. 1351 01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:53,454 I remember he had a dog. 1352 01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:56,789 She was a spaniel. Such a sweet dog. 1353 01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:01,838 She was maybe about 5 years old, and she looked about 20 1354 01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:06,924 because she'd eaten a cake with acid and she'd gone on a trip 1355 01:25:06,959 --> 01:25:10,679 that had lasted sort of months and months. 1356 01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:14,082 You know, sad things that happen. 1357 01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:18,283 JULY 3, 1969 Charlie phoned me up, 1358 01:25:18,284 --> 01:25:20,879 COTCHFORD FARM BRIAN'S HOME phone went about three in the morning 1359 01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:24,160 VOICE OF BILL WYMAN and he just said, "Brian died." 1360 01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:28,919 I couldn't believe it, you know? 1361 01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:34,177 It was such a blow that, you know, you just don't accept it for weeks. 1362 01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:36,679 You can't really believe it's true. 1363 01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:38,079 And I mean, I don't... 1364 01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:41,920 I don't think we slept after that, we just laid and talked and... 1365 01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:45,040 Just couldn't understand it. 1366 01:25:48,440 --> 01:25:51,999 I think he'd been doing what he always used to do, 1367 01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:56,159 and that was taken downers and doing heavy alcohol, 1368 01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,482 and fell asleep in the pool. 1369 01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:00,800 It was basically that simple. 1370 01:26:04,480 --> 01:26:06,199 VOICE OF CHARLIE WATTS He got much nicer to... 1371 01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:09,839 Just before he died, you know, the last few years of his life, 1372 01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,848 BRIAN DIED 3 WEEKS I felt even sorrier for him 1373 01:26:11,849 --> 01:26:14,079 AFTER LEAVING THE BAND for what we did to him then. 1374 01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:17,530 We took his one thing away, which was being in a band. 1375 01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:24,679 VOICE OF KEITH RICHARDS It really knocked us back. 1376 01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:29,648 I mean, been with that cat for seven or eight years nonstop, you know? 1377 01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:33,640 To have him suddenly removed completely. 1378 01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,919 Although it was a shock when it actually happened, 1379 01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,599 nobody was really that surprised too. 1380 01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:45,359 There are people... I'm sure that everybody's got those things 1381 01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:47,639 about certain people everybody knows people that... 1382 01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:50,239 you just have that feeling that they're not going to be... 1383 01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:53,240 they're not going to be 70 years old ever, you know? 1384 01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:55,600 Not everybody makes it. 1385 01:27:03,763 --> 01:27:05,622 JULY 1969 HYDE PARK CONCERT FOR BRIAN 1386 01:27:07,136 --> 01:27:08,492 JULY 1969 500.000 PEOPLE ATTEND 1387 01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:17,559 I was just 20, 1388 01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:21,879 and we were all incredibly shocked by Brian's death. 1389 01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:25,732 It was the first drug-alcohol casualty of our generation. 1390 01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,919 We felt his death marked the end of the '60s, and the concert 1391 01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:34,799 in the park which we all went to was very much the end of the '60s 1392 01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:39,514 and a sort of mass funeral for everything that had gone before. 1393 01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:42,679 You just knew there was going to be a massive change, 1394 01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:46,681 and Brian's death somehow was an emblem for that. 1395 01:27:53,480 --> 01:27:56,330 VOICE OF VOLKER SCHL�NDORFF I flew to London immediately from Munich 1396 01:27:56,331 --> 01:27:58,040 when I heard about it. 1397 01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:03,480 I was there, and stayed with Anita and Keith in their house. 1398 01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:09,840 We were talking and sitting and hugging. 1399 01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:17,934 There was a mourning and sadness around all of them. 1400 01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:25,079 It was a very emotional thing, the way they organised 1401 01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:30,703 this farewell and goodbye, as if to say, 1402 01:28:30,738 --> 01:28:33,913 "Now you're still - or again - one of us." 1403 01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:39,999 And Mick was very upset. 1404 01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:48,162 I just want to say something that was written by Shelley, 1405 01:28:48,197 --> 01:28:50,827 and I think it goes with what happened to Brian. 1406 01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:58,279 Peace, peace! He is not dead, he does not sleep. 1407 01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:01,160 He has awakened from the dreams of life. 1408 01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:06,239 Brian was so sensitive, really, 1409 01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:10,559 VOICE OF MICK JAGGER because Brian was so sensitive to everything, you know what I mean? 1410 01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:14,359 I suppose there was a kind of feeling that I knew that Brian would... 1411 01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:17,302 If anyone was going to die, Brian was going to die. 1412 01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:24,640 I mean, I always knew that Brian wouldn't really live that long. 1413 01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:29,800 But he just... he lived his life very fast. 1414 01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:39,920 He was... he was kind of like a butterfly. 1415 01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:55,919 40 years after Brian died, a box of old letters addressed to Brian 1416 01:29:55,920 --> 01:30:00,079 were discovered in the attic of Linda Lawrence's family house. 1417 01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:03,120 In it was this letter from Brian's father. 1418 01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,205 "My dear Brian, 1419 01:30:07,753 --> 01:30:09,986 VOICE OF LINDA LAWRENCE we have had unhappy times 1420 01:30:10,021 --> 01:30:15,508 "and I have been a very poor and intolerant father in so many ways. 1421 01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:20,319 "You grew up in such a different way from that 1422 01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:22,319 "in which I expected you to. 1423 01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:25,559 "I was quite out of my depth. 1424 01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:29,679 "In my most drastic of all actions, 1425 01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:33,999 "which I shall never forget or cease to worry over, 1426 01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:37,719 "I felt it was the only way to save my home 1427 01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,640 "and bring you to terms with yourself. 1428 01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:46,119 "I don't suppose you will ever forgive me, but all I ask 1429 01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:50,822 "is just a little of that affection I think you once had for me. 1430 01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:56,359 "This is a very private and personal note. 1431 01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:58,157 "Don't trouble to reply. 1432 01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:04,440 "Love, Dad." 1433 01:31:12,178 --> 01:31:14,251 THE BAND BRIAN PUT TOGETHER WENT ON TO BECOME 1434 01:31:14,683 --> 01:31:17,809 THE GREATEST ROCK & ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD 1435 01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:24,279 # I'll be a rollin' stone 1436 01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:26,480 # You gonna be a rollin' stone 1437 01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:29,965 # You gonna be a rollin' stone 1438 01:31:31,440 --> 01:31:33,320 # Oh, darn 1439 01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:36,800 # Sure 'nough, he gon' 1440 01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:39,760 # Oh, yeah 1441 01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:52,479 # Well, I feel 1442 01:31:52,480 --> 01:31:55,719 # Yes, I feel 1443 01:31:55,720 --> 01:32:01,360 # Feel that I could lay down, oh, time ain't long 1444 01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:06,479 # I'ma catch the first thing smokin' back 1445 01:32:06,480 --> 01:32:08,520 # Back down the road I'm goin' 1446 01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:11,765 # Back down the road I'm goin' 1447 01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:14,805 # Back down the road I'm goin' 1448 01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:19,240 # Oh, God, oh... 1449 01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:23,504 Improved by suadnovic