The Rolling Stones recently marked their 50th anniversary with a new round of interviews and concerts, but largely left out of the celebration was the band’s founder.
Brian Jones has mostly been scrubbed from the group’s official mythology — his legacy reduced to a tabloid-ready death and decades of conspiracy theories.
But as author Paul Trynka argues in his new biography, despite his too short, often unhappy life, Brian Jones deserves a better fate in rock history. Trynka is the author of Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones.
