Episode #18 | 8.28.18

Brian Jones: To Be on Your Own Like a Sinking Stone

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In this episode

Brian Jones invented “The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N Roll Band”, The Rolling Stones but would find himself kicked out of that band just a few years after helping rocket him and his bandmates to international success. He was ousted because of his excessive drug use and his abuse of women and shortly after bottoming out, Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool under somewhat mysterious circumstances.

Sources

Brian Jones - Who Killed Christopher Robin? The Truth Behind The Murder of a Rolling Stone by Terry Rawlings

Mojo: Brian Jones, It was Murder

Slate: Please Allow Me To Correct a Few Things by Bill Wyman

Daily Mail: Was Brian Jones Murdered by Keith Dovankts

Daily Mail: Has the Riddle of Brian Jones’ Death Been Solved?

Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

Music

Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.

Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

This episode featured the songs, "Winnie The Pool" by the Disgraceland Players. Written and produced by Jake Brennan, Adam Taylor and Tony Goddess and recorded at Bang A Gong Studios.

*illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivak