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Fact #100687

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Short story:

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones visit guitarist Brian Jones at his home, Cotchford Farm, Hatfield, Sussex, England, UK, Europe, and sack him from the band.

Full article:

Mick Jagger (vocalist, Rolling Stones) : It's never pleasant, firing people. But it had to be done because we felt we needed someone, and he wasn't there. He wouldn't come to the studio. He wouldn't do anything. We felt we couldn't go on. In fact, we came to a point where we couldn't play live. We couldn't hold our heads up and play because Brian was a total liability. He wasn't playing well, wasn't playing at all, couldn't hold the guitar. It was pathetic. Of course, now I suppose we would have had him admitted to rehab clinics and so on, but those things, unfortunately, in those days were not the path. He tried lots of doctors, but they just gave him more pills.


Anna Wohlin (girlfriend of Brian Jones) : He was upset that he had left the Stones but understood, because it was like a divorce. He still loved Mick and the rest and they loved him. They weren't at war.


Mick Jagger : I do feel that I behaved in a very childish way, but we were very young, and in some ways we picked on him. But, unfortunately, he made himself a target for it; he was very, very jealous, very difficult, very manipulative, and if you do that in this kind of a group of people, you get back as good as you give, to be honest. I wasn't understanding enough about his drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

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Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) : The thing about Brian is that he was an extremely difficult person. You don't really feel like talking bad about someone that's had such a miserable time. But he did give everyone else an extremely miserable ride. Anyway, there was something very, very disturbed about him. He was very unhappy with life, very frustrated. He was very talented, but he had a very paranoid personality and not at all suited to be in show business.
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