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The most cherished item I have is a picture taken of a drawing of Brian on the mantelpiece of his parents’ home. That’s how they remembered Brian. Very touching.
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Mathijs writes Ziyadeh was the legal partner of Fitzsimons. Wrong. She divorced Harry Fitzsimons in 1968 and was single in 1969. Ziyadeh wasn’t sent to prison as Mathijs writes, but to an asylum. Furthermore he wasn’t sent back to Jordan, he never lived there and originated from Jerusalem. He was sent to another country within the common wealth community. So much for Mathijs’ wrong information. Or, as he likes to put it according to his limited choice of words: bollocks.
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paulspendel
My love for the Stones didn’t turn into hate. A wrong assumption from retired_dog. I just collect documents regarding Brian’s death. Why would that make me hostile towards the Stones?
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paulspendel
I am a researcher with an open mind. I look at the stuff. Meanwhile I play the guitar in a Dutch cover band, imitating all of Keith's/Brian's parts! It's possible! look! [www.facebook.com]
and don't you guys start moaning i play The Last Time wrong!
I do apologize playing the Last Time on an Ibanez guitar, tasteless!
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I am a researcher with an open mind. I look at the stuff. Meanwhile I play the guitar in a Dutch cover band, imitating all of Keith's/Brian's parts! It's possible! look! [www.facebook.com]
and don't you guys start moaning i play The Last Time wrong!
I do apologize playing the Last Time on an Ibanez guitar, tasteless!
An admittedly eloquent, but nevertheless transparent strategy to laugh a serious discussion off - looks like you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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Kennedy was shot dead by a lone wolf, Brian drowned after taking too many drugs.
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Agreed, on both counts!
... Regarding Brian, I see similarities all the time w/ Kurt Cobain, an obvious suicide, and he left a note. And he even tried to kill himself a couple months earlier - so far more proof there than in Brian's case. Yet somehow there are so many out to prove it was murder: "Courtney did it", "Police covered it up", "Police are hiding facts", "Person X or Y had it in for Cobain", "Drug dealers were after him", "Police bundled the crime scene" ... it never ends!
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and subliminally try to establish "some kinda Stones connection" with it.
Hey yeah ... like those words ...
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paulspendel
I am a researcher with an open mind. I look at the stuff. Meanwhile I play the guitar in a Dutch cover band, imitating all of Keith's/Brian's parts! It's possible! look! [www.facebook.com]
and don't you guys start moaning i play The Last Time wrong!
I do apologize playing the Last Time on an Ibanez guitar, tasteless!
An admittedly eloquent, but nevertheless transparent strategy to laugh a serious discussion off - looks like you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Good lord man, your like a retired dog with a bone! Let the guy be already.
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Kennedy was shot dead by a lone wolf, Brian drowned after taking too many drugs.
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Agreed, on both counts!
... Regarding Brian, I see similarities all the time w/ Kurt Cobain, an obvious suicide, and he left a note. And he even tried to kill himself a couple months earlier - so far more proof there than in Brian's case. Yet somehow there are so many out to prove it was murder: "Courtney did it", "Police covered it up", "Police are hiding facts", "Person X or Y had it in for Cobain", "Drug dealers were after him", "Police bundled the crime scene" ... it never ends!
A lot of what causes conspiracy around certain deaths, Jones’s, Morrison’s, Cobain’s as examples, is caused by the drug use of the people surrounding them preceding their deaths. Back in 1969 one of the ways a builder a nurse and rockstar could be connected was drug usage.
There was 3-4 people in Cobain's house during the last week of his life, all drug users and possibly there when he killed himself. Some fled just a day before the body was found. One person said they saw someone in the greenhouse, but thought it was a mannequin
Morrison’s death went down as a heart attack but looks increasingly like an accidental heroin OD. Pamela Courson was an addict and her behaviour helped cover up a lot. No autopsy was her decision as in France there was an option, it wasn’t done by due course (I’m sure it’s changed.
Jones’s death is similar I feel, lot of boozing, people on stuff... I can imagine a scenario where Brian & Frank had a row and it ended in death. Brian could be nasty. Frank might have wanted to scare him, pushing his head underwater, too long or one too many times, all fueled by whatever they were on. The people there that night might have had their own concerns about the law and their place in it due to their hobbies....
Things are always sketchy around this types of deaths, sometimes for the most banal reason.
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Mathijs writes Ziyadeh was the legal partner of Fitzsimons. Wrong. She divorced Harry Fitzsimons in 1968 and was single in 1969. Ziyadeh wasn’t sent to prison as Mathijs writes, but to an asylum. Furthermore he wasn’t sent back to Jordan, he never lived there and originated from Jerusalem. He was sent to another country within the common wealth community. So much for Mathijs’ wrong information. Or, as he likes to put it according to his limited choice of words: bollocks.
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Yes Georgie 48, I follow your reasoning but on the issue of any doubts about a successful Hyde Park concert I think, for once, you are off the mark.
The Stones were very big at that point. They had Jumping Jack Flash, Beggars Banquet and pent up demand for a live appearance behind them. There was no way Hyde Park was going to fail. Young people flocked from all parts of the UK to see them on 5th July. At that point it may have the biggest UK concert crowd ever. The Stones may have been nervous but it was never going to fail and unfortunately the death of BJ just about 48 hours before the concert turned it into a memorial event that could not fail.....even with The Stones playing out of tune!
The things you mention are all in place (correct), but the Stones were very uncertain. BB is a great album, but at the time it didn't sell "as expected" (look at f.i. GasLightStreet's data). Especially Mick was concerned. Brian was (even though he had messed up his life) still very popular among Stones fans (diehard countries like Germany and Holland among others). Let It Bleed's cover is a clear example. It's Mick T., but could be Brian ...
For you and me off course the Stones "couldn't fail", but the band themselves felt very uncertain.
I dare to say that Hyde Park was "bigger" than big due to Brian's death (even though I decided last minute not to go out of sadness ..)
But let's be happy. The Stones are still there and Brian rolls along with them ...
I can only underline that. Of course the Stones must have felt very uncertain. Back then, it was not the Mick'n'Keith show yet. Brian was tremendously popular amongst Stones fans and I'm not making things up to suggest that they lost a sizable amount of fans after the split with Brian. To what degree even the Stones themselves could not be sure at the time.
In the early 70's, I witnessed more often than not people claiming: "I don't listen to the Stones anymore because of how they treated Brian." My rationale that the Stones sacked Brian to get functional again and to save the band's future didn't always gain friendly replies to say the least!
What you see today with people like Paul Spendel and others from LARS (like Doxa already mentioned) are just the remnants of the iceberg that once existed of people whose love for the Stones turned into hate.
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For the record: I never, ever expressed the opinion Jagger/Richards had anything to do with Brian’s death. What I do, is post stuff I unearthed,like the builder’s letter suggesting the Glimmer twins where there on the day Brian died. So, I show you sources without my opinion. That approach seems very hard to understand for some of you.They shoot the messenger and think: a published source = my opinion. That’s not the case. I give you a chance to form an opinion yourself. Just like Mathijs, who defends his nonsense regarding Joan Fitzsimons with an article from the Daily Mail. Now, there’s a source, hahaha! One of the readers on this forum is monitoring on behalf of a London libel law firm working for The Stones. I mean, they have got their sticky fingers anywhere, make no mistake. Together we have a lot of fun with some of the posts here.
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Just like Mathijs, who defends his nonsense regarding Joan Fitzsimons with an article from the Daily Mail. Now, there’s a source, hahaha!
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For the record: I never, ever expressed the opinion Jagger/Richards had anything to do with Brian’s death. What I do, is post stuff I unearthed,like the builder’s letter suggesting the Glimmer twins where there on the day Brian died. So, I show you sources without my opinion. That approach seems very hard to understand for some of you.They shoot the messenger and think: a published source = my opinion. That’s not the case. I give you a chance to form an opinion yourself. Just like
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For the record: I never, ever expressed the opinion Jagger/Richards had anything to do with Brian’s death. What I do, is post stuff I unearthed,like the builder’s letter suggesting the Glimmer twins where there on the day Brian died. So, I show you sources without my opinion. That approach seems very hard to understand for some of you.They shoot the messenger and think: a published source = my opinion. That’s not the case. I give you a chance to form an opinion yourself. Just like
And this is total bullshit as well, and you know it. It's exactly he same method all those lunatics and crazies on Covid do: posting all kind of bullshit, lies, misinformation and false 'truths', and when you confront them with this they say 'oh but that is not my opinion, I am just showing you all information so you can make up your mind. I am just curious and I want to investigate'.
I would believe you if you would also post all the information available that proofs there was no foul play, that nothing was stolen, the various police investigations clearly showing it was just an accident. But that you will never post here, right?
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