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Brian Jones
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British multi-instrumentalist, founder of The Rolling Stones (1942–1969)
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Brian Jones (1942–1969) was a British musician and member of The Rolling Stones. Born in Cheltenham, he performed on the harmonica, guitar, clarinet, and acoustic guitar. His musical output spanned rock music, rock and roll, blues rock, and psychedelic rock. Jones began his professional work period in 1961 and recorded for Decca, Atco Records, and London Records. He also used the pseudonym Elmo Lewis.
Jones died on July 3, 1969, from drowning. He is listed as part of the 27 Club. While some sources associate the name Brian Jones with various authors and actors, this passage refers to the musician associated with The Rolling Stones.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 214
Top works
- El síntoma Trump
- Black History Is for Everyone
- Over 50? Start Your Business!
- Yearbook of Astronomy 2026
- Pioneers in Business Education. European Business Review, Volume 19, Issue 2
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and composer, best known as the founder and original leader of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, Jones went on to play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts, including rhythm guitar, lead guitar, sitar, dulcimer, various keyboard instruments such as piano and…
Known for
- The Stones and Brian Jones — Self - Founder of the Rolling Stones (archive footage)2024
- Zappa — Self (archive footage)2020
- The Short Life of Brian Jones2020
- No Expectations: The Murder of Brian Jones — Self2019
- The Quiet One — Self2019
- Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones — Self2019
- The UnXplained — Self (archive footage)2019
- Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars — Self (archive footage)2018
- 27: Gone Too Soon — Self (archive footage)2018
- Året var 1965 — Self (archive footage)2015
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1942
- Active to
- 1969
Member of
- The Rolling Stones1962–1969
- Nanker Phelge
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,128
- Total plays
- 25,100
Tags
Brian Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was a founding member of The Rolling Stones. He came up with the name, "Rolling Stones" from Muddy waters' signature tune, "Rollin' Stone." He was a musical prodigy and could play every instrument he ever picked up. Brian Jones' long time drug use forced the Stones to kick him out of the band, right before his tragic death at the age of 27. Brian was found dead in the pool of his East Sussex country house, Cotchford Farm. <a href="https://www.last.f
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
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- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
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· 2003 · cited 21,254x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,385x
via Crossref · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals and play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts.
After he founded the Rolling Stones as a British blues outfit in 1962 and gave the band its name, Jones's fellow band members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger began to take over the band's musical direction, especially after they became a successful songwriting team.
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