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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Jeffries

The Stones and Brian Jones review – broken hearts, fatherless kids and Nazi regalia

Brian Jones at the Stones’ All Night Rave at Alexandra Palace, 26 June 1964.
Brian Jones plays with his back to the audience at the Stones’ All Night Rave at Alexandra Palace, 26 June 1964. Photograph: John 'Hoppy’ Hopkins

‘Being a Catholic,” says Dawn Molloy, the mother of Brian Jones’s fifth child, “I was very inhibited. He kind of got that out of me – not to be ashamed of my body and what I could do. He was very, very sexy. Yeah. The way he made love was insatiable. He made me feel amazing. He made me feel loved and special. He was an amazing teacher of how to make love to a woman.”

Nick Broomfield’s biography of the Rolling Stone whose drug- and booze-ravaged 27-year-old body was pulled from his swimming pool on 3 July 1969 is at its best when telling his life story through the women who loved him – and whom he, at least temporarily, loved.

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