July 3, 1969. The day Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool

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2023-07-03 01:05:00

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TO LISTEN. Is Brian the victim of a malaise or a deadly game with one of his employees? The death of England’s most drugged guitarist remains a mystery.

Frederic Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos

Published on 07/03/2019 at 01:05 – Modified on 07/03/2023 at 01:05

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For six months, Brian Jones has offered the villa of AA Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh. It was then the biggest cameo in Great Britain. What he puts on every day would be enough to make an elephant soar. Having become unable to play, he was fired from the Rolling Stones, of which he was the founder, by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. They accuse him of having become, because of drugs, unable to perform on stage as in the recording studio.

On July 2, 1969, at the end of the day, Brian Jones returned to his villa where three friends were staying with him: Frank Thorogood, a 41-year-old mason employed by the guitarist to carry out work in the villa, Anna Wohlin, Brian’s girlfriend , and a nurse friend named Janet Lawson. Forty years after the events, the latter…

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