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Date Posted: 21:05:15 04/13/03 Sun
Author: me
Subject: Brian Movie

Film paints Stones black
By Alison George
14apr03

THE Rolling Stones are fighting to stop a controversial new film about their early days which focuses on the suspected murder of founder member Brian Jones.

They fear the reputations of singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards will be trashed – and the blame for Jones' descent from angelic pop icon to dissolute junkie will be laid at their door.

The movie's producer Steve Woolley said the sensational revelations will force the police to reopen their inquiry into guitar hero Jones's mysterious death.

Paul Bettany, working with Nicole Kidman in Dogville, is expected to play the troubled musician.

Woolley produced Scandal, the hit film about the Profumo affair of the 1960s, and Backbeat, the story of the Beatles' time in Hamburg.








He has spent hundreds of
thousands of pounds and eight years researching the Stone's life for The Wicked World of Brian Jones.

But it is believed the Stones have instructed former manager Allan Klein, who holds the rights to their pre-1972 hits, not to grant Woolley permission to use their music.

Jones, the son of a middle- class English family, died aged 27, in July, 1969. He was found drowned in the swimming pool at his picturesque Suffolk country cottage.

The verdict was accidental death but dark rumours suggest his head was held underwater by a local builder who had come to do odd jobs but fell out with Jones.

By this time Jones was a heroin and cocaine addict. He was unable to record or write and had been fired by Jagger and Richards.

Friends say his descent from the creative mainspring who forged the band's original rhythm-and-blues style was the result of Mick and Keith dispossessing him first as leader of the group, and then stealing his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, whose favours they both enjoyed.

With Jagger, 59, knighted, about to receive his investiture from the Queen and squeaky clean, he won't want to revisit his dark past.

Yesterday Woolley said: "I'm convinced the police will have to reopen the case. Much of [the film] is about the murder of Brian Jones because the real motivation for the murder has never been clearly stated.

"Some of the people I've found the police weren't able to find . . . people who haven't spoken about Brian publicly for 30 years."

All of which is likely to embarrass Jagger and Richards as they get ready for their first concerts in Britain for four years.

The Wicked World of Brian Jones is set to be one of the most compelling British films of the year.

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