Raining over wet: Brian Jones: It Was Murder...

By MOJO STAFF 

THE ROLLING STONES’ BRIAN JONES was killed by builders working at his house in East Sussex, who escaped the attentions of the police after the band’s minder, Tom Keylock, orchestrated a cover-up, claims a book published on the 45th anniversary of the guitarist’s death.
The updated edition of Brian Jones: Who Killed Christopher Robin? also links Jones’ death to the attempted murder three weeks later of Joan Fitzsimons, an alleged witness to the crime.

“There was a cover-up. It’s not a crackpot theory, it’s what happened.”
Terry Rawlings

“[Brian Jones] was definitely murdered and there was a cover-up,” asserts the book’s author Terry Rawlings in the new issue of MOJO, on sale in the UK on July 29. “It’s not a crackpot theory, it’s what happened.”
Mystery has always surrounded the death of the guitarist, who drowned in the swimming pool at his Cotchford Farm country home on July 2, 1969, a month after he was sacked from the Rolling Stones. Jones had become isolated from the other band members, drinking and drugging to excess.
Several of Rawlings’ revelations follow the death in July 2009 of Tom Keylock, the band’s driver/minder, who admitted to the author in a videotaped interview a year before he passed away that he was, indeed, present at Cotchford Farm at the time Jones died. Previously he’d maintained that he had left the property earlier that evening to collect a guitar for Keith Richards.
The book – the original 1994 edition of which first identified builder Frank Thorogood as the primary murder suspect – also sheds more light on who was at Jones’ home on the day he died, and how police failed to act on information that could have brought his alleged killers to justice.
Read more in our interview with Terry Rawlings in the 250th Edition of MOJO m

Gloucestershire Echo interviews Bill Wyman ahead of summer concerts ...

Bill has given an exclusive interview to the Gloucestershire Echo talking about his life before, during and after the Rolling Stones.

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings will be performing at Cheltenham Town Hall on July 29 – and Bill has given a great interview to the Gloucestershire Echo in advance of the concert, revealing how putting together a band is a bit like creating a football team.
The article starts:

Bill Wyman’s analogy that getting a band together is a bit like naming a football team seems very topical at the moment.
Famous for being part of one of the world’s greatest rock bands, Bill spent 30 years living the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle before leaving to indulge other interests.
One of those has been forming rhythm and blues band the Rhythm Kings, who will be heading for Cheltenham Town Hall on July 29 as part of their latest tour.
Bill has a top line-up of musicians in the band, including Andy Fairweather Low, who’s played with the likes of Eric Clapton and Roger Waters, and Hamish Stuart, of the Average White Band, who’s come in to replace Albert Lee, who’s busy in the US.
“Getting a band together is like a football team; you get red cards or injuries and you have to get another player to take their place,” he said.
“We’re like a little family; everybody gives up their careers for short periods during the year to play a few gigs. It’s just a lovely thing about the band.”
Everyone has a turn at the mic, including a slightly reluctant Bill who usually sings You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry. Other old favourites they may play include Harlem Shuffle, Nutbush City Limits, Dancing in the Street and some Dylan.

You can read the full interview at the Gloucestershire Echo – and find out more about Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings future concerts and tour dates.

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Mick Jagger on James Brown: ‘He Was Very Generous and Kind With Me and He Wasn’t Kind With Everybody’...

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The Mecca of R&B music, aka Harlem’s Apollo Theater, played host to Monday’s world premiere of Universal’s James Brown biopic “Get On Up.”
“I first saw James Brown at the Apollo,” said Mick Jagger, who produced the film through his shingle Jagged Films. “A lady (sitting next to me) was smoking a big joint. I didn’t ask her for any. I just looked at it longingly.”
Before taking the stage, Jagger explained why he wanted to not only produce The Godfather of Soul’s narrative with Jagged partner Victoria Pearman, but also develop and produce Alex Gibney’s upcoming docu about the icon, “Mr. Dynamite: James Brown and the Power of Soul.”
“(James) was very generous and kind with me and he wasn’t kind with everybody,” Jagger laughed. “I really appreciated that. I always studied him and the way he moved, the way he always gave his best and always changed up his style.”
At the tented after party behind the Apollo, Jagger showed off his dance moves while Craig Robinson took it upon himself to emcee the festivities, which lasted until 1 a.m.
The film, about Brown’s rise from extreme poverty in Georgia to world famous figure of the 20th century, has been in the works for 12 years.
“(The project) fell asleep in 2006 and came awake in 2012,” co-screenwriter Jez Butterworth explained. “It was a rights issue. Everyone always wanted to make it, we just needed all of the stars to align.”
Co-scribe John-Henry Butterworth described exposing some of Brown’s less admirable traits as “amazingly easy to get approval” on.
“When James was becoming famous, you had to hide where you came from and be squeaky clean,” John-Henry said. “Whereas if he were an artist launching his career now his upbringing and what happened to him (on the road to stardom) would be right there in the press release. Everyone knows how many times 50 Cent has been shot.”
Two years ago the stars finally did align when Tate Taylor signed on to direct the biopic.
“I was en route to the airport to meet with a living legend who had asked me to do a biopic on her life,” Taylor explained. “On the way to the airport I stopped by Imagine Entertainment for an unrelated meeting and they mentioned, out of the spirit of competition, that they had the James Brown movie. I thought, ‘Well, let me read it.’ And somewhere over Vegas I thought, ‘Oh shit, I want to direct this one, not the one I was going to meet about.’”
As for Universal pushing the release date up from October to August 1, Taylor’s reaction was once again, “Oh shit.”
“We only had 49 days to make the movie and I told myself, ‘Well that’s OK. We will have this leisure post period and if there are any problems we will fix it.’ In the end it worked out and I’m happy with the release date.”

 Ronnie Wood 'up for' another child

by Bang Showbiz

Ronnie Wood is ''up for'' having another child.
The 67-year-old rocker - who already has eight grandchildren and three grown up kids Jesse, Tyrone and Leah, from past relationships - and his 36-year-old wife Sally Humphreys have been discussing starting a family of their own and the Rolling Stones guitarist thinks having a baby would keep him young.
Asked if she wants to have children of her own, Sally said: ''Yeah, I do. There's no plans but there's no non-plans, if you see what I mean. As time ticks on, I would like children. I don't know if I will but I would like them, and if not then I feel lucky to have little people around me anyway.
''Obviously [Ronnie and I have] spoken about it quite a lot, and you can ask him and his response would be, 'Well, that would be nice.' He's up for it. He's got a lot of friends that are older who have younger children and they all say it's fantastic and it keeps you young. I do think that would be wonderful, but I don't know if it will happen. I hope so.''
Sally admits she ''wishes'' there wasn't such a large age gap between herself and her spouse, but she knew she had to accept the difference if she wanted their relationship to work.
She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: ''He's on my level completely. He's a very nice and caring person. Oh God, don't use the word 'nice', it's so boring. He's very funny, kind and affectionate and welcoming.
'' I know [the age gap is] there. And I wish it wasn't, but it is. I think I had to say, 'I can't do this because of the age', or I just had to let it go and take it all on board. At no point, years ago, did I say to myself: 'I think I'll go out with someone twice my age', but that is what has happened.''

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The Rolling Stones love box sets...

by Bang Showbiz

The Rolling Stones prefer backgammon, jigsaw puzzles and TV box sets to partying these days, says Ronnie Wood.

The Rolling Stones are obsessed with TV box sets.
The veteran rockers shun wild parties for more leisurely pursuits on the road these days, including backgammon, jigsaw puzzles, and binge-watching television shows.
Guitarist Ronnie Wood said: ''Being on tour jetlags you. You wake up every night about 9pm, just at the time when you would be going on stage. So now, instead, we watch 19 murder mysteries in a row. We're on 'Above Suspicion' at the moment. Last one tonight.
''We watch loads of box sets on the road, too. Even with [Sir Mick] Jagger I go, 'Let's go and watch 'House of Cards'.' And he told us about 'Game of Thrones'. We had to send someone out at four in the morning when we were in Shanghai to get us the next series.''
The group are all big fans of 'Breaking Bad' and were delighted to meet Aaron Paul, who played troubled Jesse Pinkman, at one of their gigs.
Ronnie's wife Sally said: ''When Aaron Paul came backstage at a gig, that caused more pandemonium than even the band.''
Ronnie added to the Daily Telegraph newspaper: ''We cracked the ice with him. Keith was going, 'What are you doing here?' and Patti [Keith's wife] was like, 'Oh my God, get out of the way. It's Aaron!' ''

Mick Jagger Recalls Awkward Meeting With James Brown...

by WENN

Mick Jagger's new James Brown biopic brought back bad memories for the Rolling Stones rocker as it reminded him of a meeting he had with the Godfather of Soul at the beginning of his career.
A naive, 20-year-old Jagger was asked to help calm Brown down after he learned he wouldn't be headlining a T.A.M.I. Show special in the 1960s, and the Brit jumped at the chance to meet one of his heroes.
But Brown wasn't in the mood to meet fans.
Jagger tells Wenn, "James Brown was definitely the star but there were many others... like Marvin Gaye... and James was a bit annoyed as not being the last on the show.
"As I was the only one who had met him before, briefly, the producers of the show decided I was the fall guy. I was, like, 20, and they were like, 'You go and talk to him'.
"When you're 20 you go, 'Sure, I'll do it,' and of course that didn't work out well... He did this amazing performance and we (Rolling Stones) went on after. We had to work really hard, and maybe it was a better show because of that."
Jagger is the producer of new film Get On Up, which features 42 star Chadwick Boseman as late soul man Brown.

Mick Jagger says work helped after L'Wren Scott's death...

 

by Bang Showbiz

The Rolling Stones legend Sir Mick Jagger has opened up about L'Wren Scott's death for the first time since her passing in March, and he admitted ''working'' and ''touring'' helped him ope.

Sir Mick Jagger says ''working'' helped him through the death of L'Wren Scott.
The Rolling Stones rocker has opened up about his long-term partner's death for the first time since her suicide in March, and he has admitted that he coped by ''touring'' with his band and working on 'Get On Up', a new movie about soul icon James Brown.
Speaking on NBC, he told US TV host Matt Lauer: ''I'm doing OK. It's a difficult, very hard year, but I got back into it by working on touring with the Stones in Europe and doing other things including doing this great movie.''
It is the first time the legendary musician has broken his silence over his tragic loss, besides a statement in which he admitted he was ''struggling'' to come to terms with his partner taking her own life.
He said at the time: ''I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way.''
Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend Luciana Giminez was forced to defend him of being a national curse and causing the team to lose to Germany in one of the worst defeats of World Cup history.
She wrote: ''Mick has been successful for 50 years, he's a good friend and GOOD FATHER to my 15-year-old son.
''He is suffering cyber bullying .... and I would like to ask you guys who do this kind of bullying to think before you do it.
''Even though it only seems like a small thing, Mick is a person like us all, and he does not deserve to be treated this way by Brazilians.''

Pretty cool.!--The Rolling Stones Mike Dougles Show 1964

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Ronnie Wood's Ex-wife Defends Mick Jagger's Behaviour Following Girlfriend's Death...

by WENN

Rocker Ronnie Wood's ex-wife Jo has spoken out to defend the behaviour of Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger following the death of his girlfriend L'wren Scott.
Scott committed suicide at her New York home in March (14) and last month (Jun14), Jagger sparked speculation he had moved on from his partner of 13 years after he was photographed on a hotel balcony in Switzerland with 27-year-old American ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick.
The images drew harsh criticism from Scott's sister Jan Shane, but the late designer's brother, Randy Bambrough, defended Jagger, insisting there was no reason to doubt the love he had for Scott.
Now Jo Wood, who split from Jagger's bandmate in 2008, has also defended the rocker's behaviour, insisting the singer is simply carrying on with his life the only way he knows how.
She tells Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper, "This is the only life Mick knows after all these years. He's the epitome of rock and roll. He will always have a wild streak, but I say good luck to him. He should grow old disgracefully. When I am 70, I hope I will still be going out with guys. I am sure most men would say, 'How fantastic'. He's 70, go for it. What do people want him to be doing? Sitting in a rocking chair?"

Mick Jagger called a jinx by World Cup fans; his Brazilian baby mama defends him...

Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger has been the target of angry World Cup fans who have called him a "jinx" because they think every time Jagger shows support for a World Cup team, that team loses. According to Time magazine, the backlash against Jagger intensified on July 8, 2014, when Brazil was eliminated from the World Cup after losing to Germany in a 7-1 match held in Rio de Janeiro. Jagger was at the game with his son Lucas, whose mother is Jagger's ex-lover Luciana Gimenez Morad, a Brazilian former model. Lucas was born in 1999, the year that Jerry Hall (the mother of four of Jagger's children) ended her 22-year relationship with Jagger when news of Gimenez Morad's pregnancy went public.
World Cup fans began theorizing about a so-called "Mick Jagger jinx" in May 2014, when on May 29, Jagger said during the Rolling Stones' Rock in Rio concert in Lisbon that Portugal would win the World Cup. But by the end of the month, Portgual was knocked out of the World Cup after a series of defeats.

6 July 1969: Mick Jagger pays poetic tribute to Brian Jones...

At the Hyde Park concert, Mick Jagger reads Shelley's Adonais in memory of guitarist Brian Jones, who had died only days before. Photograph: Chris Walter/WireImage

By : John Galefrom from the guardian

Before the Rolling Stones played in Hyde Park yesterday, Mick Jagger paid a tribute to the group's former guitarist, Brian Jones, who died in the swimming pool of his home last week.
He asked the multitude in the Cockpit, a grassy bowl above the Serpentine, to "cool it for a minute because I would really like to say something about Brian. I don't know how to do this thing, but I'm going to try… I'm just going to say something that was written by Shelley."
And he began: "Peace, peace! he is not dead, he does not sleep/He has awakened from the dream of life…"
The mighty throng heard the poem in silence and the dust of the day rose into the sultry air amid the oaks and elms and beeches. From far off, you might have supposed that this great gathering had come to hear a religious leader or some eastern mystic.
The thousands looked like a great dish of confetti and the atmosphere was strangely peaceful. Could there really have been half a million? Some perched like birds in the trees; others stood on piles of tins or upturned litter baskets; girls climbed on the boys' shoulders. And the concert was free.
When Jagger had finished reading, the Stones began to blast the air and thousands of butterflies were released from cardboard boxes. Why the butterflies? "Because," said an organiser, "we thought it would be nice."
Girls and boys wore ornate Chinese robes and smocks in coloured silk with wide purple or orange trousers. Some carried children on their backs. A girl slept using a small black and white dog as a pillow. Others collected for Biafran relief. An old man wore rectangular purple glasses. There were even Scots Guardsmen.
A group of toughs in boots and jeans with their hair shorn drew the attention of a police car. There were kaftans on girls and boys wearing coloured headbands; Damascus robes and gilt Dutch bonnets; there were Indians, Negroes and Chinese.
There were any number of delectable girls with their bra-less breasts bobbing beneath their white vests, confidently aware of their appeal. One wore a lacy transparent dress with nothing at all beneath.
In the musicians' enclosure, rockers and Hells Angels acted as stewards. They wore black leather jackets, Nazi steel helmets and swastikas and crucifixes swinging from neck-chains.
Most were gentle and unmilitary and kept order well. Many in the enclosure were camp followers: beautiful girlfriends and wives, feeding grubby, healthy children. Others were swarthy, wearing rings and handled whippets. Julie Felix was here in jeans. Marianne Faithfull carried a small child and wore a long white dress. A girl official had small nipples peeking from her string dress.
"It's nicer than I expected," said a middle-aged man.

MORE THAN A BASS: Bill Wyman’s detecting discoveries: historic buckles gallery...

Bill Wyman is more than a musician and photographer – the lifelong metal detectorist has also made some beautiful discoveries such as this buckle gallery.

Bill has sent through a collection of some of his buckle finds, presented below as a close-up gallery of buckles that Bill has discovered. Bill has send through 36 close-up photos of his buckle finds, which Bill says were all discovered on his land or in fields in the local area.
Bill says the buckles date from 1100-1700, and were all made from copper alloys. Bill says the buckles are a wide selection from his bigger buckle collection, and would have been used for strap ends, belts, sword belts and shoes.
The dates shown with each buckle in the slideshow below detail the historical period the buckle originated.
His wider collection includes later buckles from horse harnesses or ‘hat and shoe buckles’ from the 18th to 20th centuries, which are not shown here.
Bill has a long history in detecting – and has even created his own Bill Wyman Signature metal detector. You can find out all about Bill Wyman’s metal detector here.
“Metal detecting is not just for anoraks or eccentrics; it’s probably the best and most enjoyable way of learning about our history,” says ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman. So much so, that Bill Wyman has designed the metal detector with a unique appeal to children that has won praise from the likes of Richard And Judy

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