Okay, now that I am happily blogging on four sites I can suspend my verbal diarrhea for a few moments to announce that my ebook, Brian Jones’ Diary, is only weeks away from release. Not having used cyber-publishing before I feel I am missing out on a lot of steps (and I am) because the physical print part is missing.
I have been intrigued by Brian Jones from my first Rolling Stones album, Got Live If You Want It, a very raw stage production where the tuning is bad and the songs are fast but the energy is amazing. Following his career I saw that he was, in fact, the stereotypical Anti-Christ that church leaders were expecting but never thought would show up during their lifetimes. He was the first rock star, adored by women, harranged by police and drinking and drugging himself into oblivion for long periods of time. His dressing habits influenced a generation of clothiers and set the style for the late 1960’s.
And he never disappointed his public in his death: sudden and shrouded by mystery. He was the first rock fixture to die and it was at the beginning of a summer of the first moon landing, Woodstock and the bloodletting by Charles Manson’s “family.”
Brian Jones’ Diary is part biography, part mystery and a lot of fantasy. But I had fun with it and had to research a lot of material to see if his death was natural causes or murder. My friend, Babs Walker, is doing the cover for me.
