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BeachGirl
A member of the Brian Jones Fan Club contacted me and told me Brian's parents are in a retirement home in Wales. And Brian's sister Barbara has a son and is divorced.
Thanks for passing it on. Wales is next door to the town of Cheltenham, so that figures.
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crumbling_mice
The world has moved on since the heady days of the 1960's - these were different times with different norms, social values...measured by today's standards it looks really bad, everybody @#$%& everybody, contraception was basic to say the least and responsibiltiy was not high on peoples' agendas. Brian did only what every other pop/rock musician was doing at the time. due to his good looks etc he has many girls at his call...but they had a responsibility as well as he, maybe more so since it is they who were the ones to end up alone and pregnant.
Thank god these days aren't as bad, although I think it's still pretty bad in some circles. Anyway, the point I'm making is that we shouldn't judge Brian too harshly, Mick, a someone, pointed out did just about as bad, but due to him having the money and conscience to support his misdemeanors it's kinda more socially acceptable.
Brian's father has spoken about Brian after his death at one occassion at least. But no words from his mother or sister AFAIK.Quote
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I think there's a curiosity about Brian's parents because so little seems to be known about how they felt about Brian, and as far as I know they refused interviews after he died. Silence is what drives the interest. If they'd come out at one point and said, "He was a good boy, except for all those tramps he knocked up. Didn't care for his music much, or that German girl, but what can you do? More tea?", then that would have been it.
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tonterapi
Brian seem to have loved and cared for his kids but had a hard time to be there for them as he lived for the band and the lifestyle that came with it.
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BeachGirl
A member of the Brian Jones Fan Club contacted me and told me Brian's parents are in a retirement home in Wales. And Brian's sister Barbara has a son and is divorced.
Thanks for passing it on. Wales is next door to the town of Cheltenham, so that figures.
It also makes sense as they're both Welsh. The added convenience of "Wales being next door to Cheltenham" is just a bonus!!!
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tonterapi
Brian seem to have loved and cared for his kids but had a hard time to be there for them as he lived for the band and the lifestyle that came with it.
Joke of the day!
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originalstones
They are both still alive.
Rob
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Redhotcarpet
How did his infant sister die? Accident?
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2000 LYFH
BackstreetGirl - do you or anyone else know what the finding's of Trevor Hobley investigation into Brian's death was?
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2000 LYFH
BackstreetGirl - do you or anyone else know what the finding's of Trevor Hobley investigation into Brian's death was?
Would sure love to know!
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I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together....
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2000 LYFH
BackstreetGirl - do you or anyone else know what the finding's of Trevor Hobley investigation into Brian's death was?
Would sure love to know!
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BackstreetGirl - do you or anyone else know what the finding's of Trevor Hobley investigation into Brian's death was?
Would sure love to know!
This is what Mock Jogger had to say:
In January 2009 Trevor/his lawyer/his detectives presented a 83 page dossier (obviously an abstract of more material) to the Sussex police. A few weeks before he stated on a Q&A thread on a (shortlived) Brian Jones fanboard: "Not only am I completely satisfied with our results but the team I have around me are too." Trevor's answers may give an impression of the issues Trevor and his team were concerned with and how they dealt with them. Here's the link: [www.createforum.com] (Trevor's user name is "editorbjfc"; he shows up after a first round of questions.)
There was a gigantic international media response in late August 2009, when a former member of Trevor's team, former BBC-producer Scott Jones, announced there'd be a reinvestigation, suggesting he had just stepped into the police office presenting the material - when that had been done seven months before, and not by him. That proved at least one thing: when people say nobody would be interested in the Brian Jones death case that's obviously dead wrong. However, finally Sussex police declined to reopen the case and let Trevor's lawyer, John Latham, know in December 2009.
Three years later Trevor's material is not publicly available. I would have thought the next logical step would be to release it. If any such plans still exist (and if not: why not), I don't know.
From what Trevor said in that Q&A thread and from some material leaked by former members of his team you can get an idea of the direction the investigation took. For example, there had been an attack on Brian's minicab driver Joan Fitzsimons ca. three weeks after Brian's death, resulting in her being blinded. Trevor said he could prove she was a witness on 2 July 1969 and was silenced after she talked about what she had seen. On the internet I saw a local newspaper article from July 1969 about the attack and a police photograph of Frank Thorogood (that infamous builder on the Rolling Stones' payroll that was - after his death in 1993 - accused by Tom Keylock to be responsible for Brian's death). Frank was interrogated over the Fitzsimons assault.