Brian Jones

If there’s an interesting instrument on a mid-’60s Rolling Stones recording, it probably was played by the late, great Brian Jones.

He was the blues junkie and the most versatile musician in the group.

Brian Jones was a founding member of the Rolling Stones, and contributed heavily to their early success. But, as time went on, he felt pushed aside by the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and his growing drug problem also helped alienate him from his bandmates, who fired him in June of 1969...

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones died when he drowned in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969.

Brian Jones would’ve been 70 years old today (Feb. 28) had he not tragically drowned in his own swimming pool back in 1969. His mysterious death came only one month after Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sacked him from the the Rolling Stones, replacing him with Mick Taylor...