TO BRIAN JONES - ROLLING STONES - 3 July 1969
Found dead in the bottom of his swimming pool after an all night drink and drugs binge...aged 27! Again! Rumours and conspiracy theories abound that Jones was murdered, including a reasonably convincing one that it was his builder (with whom he'd been drinking that night).
Frank Thorogood was owed £8,000 by Jones who was refusing to pay and had actually sacked Thorogood as his builder (quite why he'd spend the night drinking with him seems a bit odd, but don't let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory!).
Anyway, Jones and Thorogood apparently decided to go swimming around midnight in Jones's pool. Thorogood allegedly held Jones under the water to 'frighten' him into paying up, held on too long and 'accidentally' killed him. Thorogood apparently made a deathbed confession in 1993...
see 'Checking Out Too Soon' from Friday 6th June for more great rock deaths...
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moral of the story.....If you are a rich and famous rockstar ave a rockery not a swimmin pool!
Genius! Or a shrubbery, designed buy the "knights who say Niii!"
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