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Summary: A misguided woman's fantasy
Review: As a long time Stones archivist and fan, I have read every book written about the band and the late Brian Jones, and this is probably the worst. One can only conclude that Ms. Wohlin is living in a fantasy world because much of what she writes is nonsense, contradicted by virtually everyone and everything I've ever read. The entire book reads like a badly written romance novel. This poor woman rates only brief mentions in the numerous biographies about Brian because she really only knew him for a couple of months before he died, and unbelievably, there are no pictures of her with "the man she will love forever" in her own book! And finally, she is unable to provide proof of her allegations that Brian was murdered, her testimony remaining unchanged since that terrible night. Avoid this like the plague.
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Summary: truth at last
Review: Brian Jones' mysterious death in July 1969 has haunted the whole Sixties generation, and now at last Anna Wohlin tells us what really happened.Her tale suits well with all the facts known. On top of that, she provides a shocking insight in the workings of the Rolling Stones management back then. That alone makes it quite imaginable why Anna wants to speak out after thirty years of forced silence; I wouldn't be surprised if her urge to do so is much stronger than any financial interest. Anyway, I do not doubt this tale is the closest we will ever get to Brian Jones' mysterious death. My only slight criticism concerns the love-colored picture Anna gives on Brian: too positive. But that's peanuts compared to the great service she renders us by having this book published: at last the Sixties generation can sit back and relax.
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Summary: Best darn book on this man
Review: I had a chance to read this book and I must say this is as far the best book I have read on this great artist. It is proven without a trace of a doubt that Brian Jones was murdered on the night of July 7, 1969. It is a shame that the man who killed him isn't around anymore to see what Anna Wholin has written about this faithful night. It is great to see that at the end of his life he had somebody with him who loved him a lot. All in all this is a book that I would recommend to the people like me who liked and admired thid man. It is well written and it is the kind of book that you can't put down. Once again I highly recommended it.
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Summary: Enchanting
Review: I thought this book was wonderful. I don't know if it proves how Brian died, but it does tell me how he really was in the end. The way Anna described him, was so interesting. He really was down to earth and loved his home. He loved to plant carrots and watch them grow, it gave him such fulfillment that he was lacking in his life. How he enjoyed his music room, and how he loved to eat breakfast with a glass of full fat milk. The way Anna wrote, I felt like I actually was there in the room watching him and I felt like I was in the garden watching him pull his carrots out of the ground to see how much they grew. It was amazing I felt like I was watching Brian thru his window. For me, Anna made Brian happy in his last days and that is what counts. I keep the book by my bedside, and browse thru it constantly, I have read it 3 times already! I love it!
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Summary: Brian Jones-A Long Time Coming
Review: it's been a while. i've thought over the years that i should say something, but i never knew what. and even now speculation, and psychological biographies continue to haunt, delivering immediate answers. the funny thing, the most unusual thing, the most mundane thing is lewis brian hopkin-jones never thought of himself as anything other. difficult, yes. problematical, yes. but not a whole lot more than that. just another kid who loved the blues. i should know. we corresponded for years. we hung out together in europe, early on and did music. it wasn't anything other than music and conversation. there was certainly absolutly nothing golden about it. there was nothing special about brian, unless you counted an abiding love of music and a definate proclivity with any stringed instrument. but a lot of us in the late 50s and early 60s were there and doing the same thing (robert elliot hardin, jack hardy, charlie irwin, ed krayer in america) with our poetry, music, theatre, dance, thoughts and late night walks. bri was simply another kid who really loved the blues. i'd like to say i have something to offer to the industry of his death. i don't. michael phillip and keith have had their say. bill has offered revisionism. i remember that none of us were easy or pleasant. i remember that neither bri or i thought we'd live past 25. once we did, we didn't know what to do. and so, now, i keep going back to the first 3 albums, and enjoy his vision, and a music that a white kid in england was able to make especially his own. i do miss him. i do not know what would have happened. we never talked about that.
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Summary: The Princess and The Stone...a fairy tale?
Review: No one more than I would like to believe that in the months prior to his death Brian Jones was a milk drinking, vegetable planting, happy, healthy man. I remember the morning I was told of Brian Jones death. I wept like a child...just as I had wept with joy at the sight of him onstage at the age of 16. Sadly, I believe this book was not written to validate Brian Jones life or his death, but to make Anna Wohlin feel better. No one ever speaks of her...she is merely a footnote in Brian Jones' life. No match for the powerful aura of Anita Pallenberg or Marianne Faithful, she is, in the history books, merely the woman who was there the day he died. There are no photos of Brian and Anna together in this book. There are no photos of Brian at all. So one can't help but speculate on the motives for the writing and printing of this book. Was he clean? Was he happy? Was he in love? Anna says yes. Brian's father in an interview after Brian's death only speaks of unhappiness and drugs. Anna claims that Brian's father knew of their happiness and condoned it. Real or memorex? Fact or fiction? Truth or lies? Truth: Brian Jones died in a questionable manner in the summer of 1969. Truth: he was a beautiful, talented, troubled man. No speculation will bring him back. These kind thoughts help. Rest in peace.
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Summary: Total lack of quality and style; based on imagination
Review: This book is written in extremely poor style, with amazingly little detail from someone who says she remembers it all. The writer also claims she can remember everything Brian said, but her spoken English was described as very poor by reps of the Brian Jones fan club after her visit to Cheltenham in July 2000. So how can one remember "everything" when one cannot speak the language? It's not possible. One must assume that the scenes come from Anna Wohlin's imagination. - She also describes as facts things she has absolutely no evidence for: Brian being murdered by Thorogood, her being driven out of the country by the Stones organisation, and even a baby Johanna she miscarried! None of this she has absolutely no evidence for. In short: this book is absolute rubbish, and only a fool would take the story for real.
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Summary: A Must!
Review: This book should be in the fiction category.
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