My All Time Favourite Brian’s Live Performances 2. I Just Want To Make Love To You in the NME Poll Winners Concert in 26th April 1964. Brian was “on fire” this day. Again, he uses two harmonicas - cross harping on C and F harmonicas - and the sound is nuts, infectious. I can’t really say I’m a fan of the studio version but they way it was played live is a totally different experience. Record on 10th January (according to Keno) or 13th June (according to Wikipedia), 1964 - at the Regent Studios in London.

Brian Jones time on Whiteleys  by Nathaniel Cramp -

“There is no small irony in the fact that Brian Jones was sacked for stealing when he worked as an electrical appliance salesman at Whiteleys in Queensway. This is a man who at the time was going by the name of Elmo Lewis and whose new band – soon to be christened The Rolling Stones – played music pilfered directly from his favourite American blues records.

Brian had been making frequent forays to the capital for a while, but it was meeting blues guitarist Alexis Korner that convinced him to move here in February 1962. Through Korner, Brian would get together with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and, on July 11, the Stones played their debut gig at the Marquee. After spending numerous weekends at Korner’s flat in Moscow Road W2, Brian found some digs nearby and got a job at the local department store.

The original owner William Whiteley was shot dead in 1907 by a man who claimed to be his illegitimate son. By the time Brian worked there, he himself had already fathered three illegitimate children, one of whom arrived in London soon after with his mother, who made a futile attempt to make an honest man of Brian as his career took off.

Sadly, no one remembers what Brian actually stole from Whiteleys, but a string of jobs at such places as WH Smith in Kingsway suggest it wasn’t an isolated incident. ‘He was always very good at getting out of things,’ Keith Richards recalled later. ‘He’d always chat up the manager and they’d say, “Yeah, we understand, your wife’s left you” – wasn’t his wife, but he’d always tell them it was – or “your grandmother died” and anything else he could think of.’

After Brian’s untimely death in 1969, Alexis Korner’s wife Bobbie suggested Whiteleys erect a plaque to commemorate the greatest thief they ever employed. Sadly, they never did.”

Source: Time Out London.

Artist :: Shag

Mick and Anita on the set of performance

📷 by Cecil Beaton

Anita Pallenberg with photo of Keith Richards

That first night that Brian and I spent together, he cried the entire night. We were in bed and I held him in my arms and he couldn't stop crying, like he'd been holding back all this pain and now he was able to let it go. It was all about Mick and Keith and the others.

— Anita Pallenberg.

Anita Pallenberg (cca 1966)

Brian Jones and Bill Wyman

it's a BJ Bday

Brian Jones

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Brian Jones

Brian and Keith by itsmefishbred - pinterest

Keith Richards

Keith Richards onstage