Murder of Brian Jones [Hardcover]

Anna Wohlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2001

In 60s London, Anna Wohlin met and fell in love with Brian Jones, the lead guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones. It was a perfect match, and after a passionate courtship, she moved into his house, Cotchford Farm. He had quit drugs, and they lived an idyllic country life together, having the house renovated by builders and preparing themselves for a future together without the divisive influence of the other Stones. But a vicious argument with the builder was to lead to Brian's tragically early death. But it was a misadventure, as so often claimed, or, as his girlfriend Anna contends, murder? The truth is revealed in this text by the woman who shared his life for a while.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Blake Pub; First Edition edition (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857823168
• ISBN-13: 978-1857823165
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,524,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Princess and The Stone...a fairy tale?, May 9, 2000

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Janis Schacht (Bronx, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder of Brian Jones (Hardcover)

No one more than I would like to believe that in the months prior to his death Brian Jones was a milk drinking, vegetable planting, happy, healthy man. I remember the morning I was told of Brian Jones death. I wept like a child...just as I had wept with joy at the sight of him onstage at the age of 16. Sadly, I believe this book was not written to validate Brian Jones life or his death, but to make Anna Wohlin feel better. No one ever speaks of her...she is merely a footnote in Brian Jones' life. No match for the powerful aura of Anita Pallenberg or Marianne Faithful, she is, in the history books, merely the woman who was there the day he died. There are no photos of Brian and Anna together in this book. There are no photos of Brian at all. So one can't help but speculate on the motives for the writing and printing of this book. Was he clean? Was he happy? Was he in love? Anna says yes. Brian's father in an interview after Brian's death only speaks of unhappiness and drugs. Anna claims that Brian's father knew of their happiness and condoned it. Real or memorex? Fact or fiction? Truth or lies? Truth: Brian Jones died in a questionable manner in the summer of 1969. Truth: he was a beautiful, talented, troubled man. No speculation will bring him back. These kind thoughts help. Rest in peace.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FASCINATING, November 15, 2005

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Dapper Dan From Dixieland - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder of Brian Jones (Hardcover)

This is a fascinating book which is very easy to read.I think its always better to hear a story from a protagonist for although there is undoutably some deviation from the truth,there is a sense of genuine involvment and that is very apparent here.
The book describes the authers romantic relationship with Jones during the last few months of his life,although interesting Wohlin does have a habbit of repeating her self and painting too much of a rosy picture of their life together.The book finds a better pace as it approaches the events surrounding the "murder",which she attributes to Frank Throgood a builder who was hired by the Stones management to renovate Jones recently aquired farm house.Another reviewer intelligently says that you have to read between the lines to see the real truth and I would agree,and equally when it comes to Wohlins involvment.She expresses how she felt scared and intimidated,fearing that if she told anyone that she believed Jones was murdered she too would meet the same fate .She very effectivly dipicts the isolated lonely position she was in being "alone in a foreign country"grief stricken and intimidated and this combined with what she perceived as genuine threats from Throgood is why she has presumably not spoken sooner.We are left with the suggestion of a huge conspiracy surrounding the death involving the Rolling Stones Inc who go to great lengths to stop Wohlin from talking,even offering her £100,000 to keep quiet,begging the question "why?"after all the stones had nothing to gain from Jones death "did they?"
Eventually some time after the inquest Wohlin finds the courage to tell the police that she is convinced Brian Jones was murdered, they agree something is amiss but advise her for her own wellbeing to leave things as they stand.
Taken to its logical conclusion this is a harrowing story of deceit, foulplay corruption and murder .Well done Anna for finding the courage to write it, perhaps your next book could fill in the blanks.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Brian Jones-A Long Time Coming, November 26, 1999

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William J. Cody - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder of Brian Jones (Hardcover)

it's been a while. i've thought over the years that i should say something, but i never knew what. and even now speculation, and psychological biographies continue to haunt, delivering immediate answers. the funny thing, the most unusual thing, the most mundane thing is lewis brian hopkin-jones never thought of himself as anything other. difficult, yes. problematical, yes. but not a whole lot more than that. just another kid who loved the blues. i should know. we corresponded for years. we hung out together in europe, early on and did music. it wasn't anything other than music and conversation. there was certainly absolutly nothing golden about it. there was nothing special about brian, unless you counted an abiding love of music and a definate proclivity with any stringed instrument. but a lot of us in the late 50s and early 60s were there and doing the same thing (robert elliot hardin, jack hardy, charlie irwin, ed krayer in america) with our poetry, music, theatre, dance, thoughts and late night walks. bri was simply another kid who really loved the blues. i'd like to say i have something to offer to the industry of his death. i don't. michael phillip and keith have had their say. bill has offered revisionism. i remember that none of us were easy or pleasant. i remember that neither bri or i thought we'd live past 25. once we did, we didn't know what to do. and so, now, i keep going back to the first 3 albums, and enjoy his vision, and a music that a white kid in england was able to make especially his own. i do miss him. i do not know what would have happened. we never talked about that.