Though the ill fated,
founding member
of the Rolling Stones
began his promising
musical career in
the footsteps of
the great American
blues artists like
Howlin' Wolf and
Muddy Waters, by
the end of his short
life he was immersed
in the assimilation
of exotic foreign
influences into
popular music.
Jones was of Welsh
descent, born in
Gloucestershire,
Great Britain. and
though he never
shared official
songwriting credits
with Mick Jagger
and Keith Richards,
it was his inspired
musicianship that
created the unique
sound of many of
their hits: the
sitar on Paint it
Black, a dulcimer
on Lady Jane and
mellotron in the
space-rock classic
2000 Light Years
from Home.
He adopted the fashion
sense of a Victorian
English dandy and
lived a life of
decadent self-indulgence
and drug use.
His self-destructive,
alienating behaviour
caused his ejection
from the band. A
few weeks later,
he was dead in the
pool of his estate.
It is alleged that
he was killed by
a man who had been
hired to do repairs
to the aging brick
mansion.
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