The Stones & Brian Jones – 6

It’s surprising that it takes a documentary to introduce the founder of the Rolling Stones and lead/rhythm guitarist until he was fired and died shortly thereafter in 1969, well after the Stones were world phenomena. Similarly surprising is that after watching the documentary he is still pretty much a cipher in my consciousness. Bill Wyman says a few interesting things, but otherwise Jones doesn’t emerge from the huge shadow of Jagger and Richards. Jones wrote no songs but fathered children with five different girlfriends, not what we’re looking for. Instead, we get a lot of screaming fans, which could be for anyone. Oh, yes, and his parents didn’t approve.