With Nico (at right, with head turned away) at Monterey.

.............................................................................................. Photo Terry O'Neill



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(larger duplicate) - Brian and his buddy Tom - Redlands 1967/8?

1968

Utterly fantastic! DiamondDog7 (and everybody else), thank you!

He was a good looking guy no doubt! Maybe that had something to do with his sociopathic type of behavior later on in his life though ,you know? Women would sweat just at the sight of him and he knew it. Caused him to treat people like shit and feel nothing about it afterwards. He apperently beat up his women and loved to cause other men pain. Not a nice person by many accounts and it's really too bad in a person that had so much more to offer.

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This looks like Brian before drugs. He looks determined, focused and capable of being the bands leader/spokesman. Which he was for a while

Yes. Though so does Keith in that picture.

I think it was inevitable that Jagger would become the spokesman--to this day, people look to the singer to speak for the band, on stage it's usually the singer who talks to the audience, etc. Brian didn't occupy a position in the public's perception of the band that would have made him an obvious spokesman, really. Equally, once they started making records and appearing on TV, etc., if you didn't know who the band's leader was, you probably wouldn't guess Brian. I was a humongous fan, and I didn't realize that particular dynamic for a long time.

Sorry, just musing. Here's a couple I really like--

Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones and Stash Klossowski De Rola at Cannes Film Festival, May 6, 1967. (Photo credit: Hulton Archive)

Brian, Stash, Anita Pallenberg and film director Volker Shlondorff at Cannes, May 6, 1967. (Photo credit: Hulton Archive)

"Brian Jones and I would visit a store on the King's Road owned by Ola Hudson, the mother or Slash, who was then a toddler, and grew up to become a famous contemporary guitar player (of Guns n' Roses fame). There we would buy antique women's clothes that we would fashion as tunics. We referred to it as 'scoring chick's clothes'. The late great decorator Ben Willis presented me with the famous Arab velvet jacket embroidered with gold, which I wore on countless photoshoots, and that Brian Jones also wore on several occasions. I was also partial to wonderful psychedelic Nehru jackets designed by Chris Jagger and frequently exchanged clothes with Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Brian and Keith Richards."

--Stash Klossowski De Rola, 2010