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b'The Rolling Stones\\u2019 rise to fame is one of rock \\u2018n\\u2019 roll\\u2019s epic stories. Yet one crucial part of that story has never been fully told: the role of Brian Jones, the visionary who founded the band and meticulously controlled their early sound, only to be dethroned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Tormented by paranoia and drug problems, Jones drowned at the age of twenty-seven. Drawing on new information and interviews with Richards, Andrew Oldham, and Marianne Faithfull, among dozens of others,\\xa0Brian Jones\\xa0lays bare the Rolling Stones\\u2019 full story, in all its glory and squalor.Paul Trynka\\xa0is a respected music writer known both for his groundbreaking role as editor of\\xa0MOJO\\xa0magazine and as author of\\xa0Starman\\xa0and\\xa0Open Up and Bleed,\\xa0biographies of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, respectively, which attracted laudatory reviews worldwide.\\xa0Portrait of the Blues, his collection of oral histories with more than sixty blues musicians (in collaboration with photographer Val Wilmer), is regarded as a landmark work. Paul was also editor of the widely respected\\xa0International Musician\\xa0magazine and founding editor of the\\xa0Guitar Magazine, for which he first interviewed Keith Richards more than twenty years ago. Paul lives with his wife, Lucy, and son, Curtis, in Greenwich, London, just down the road from Mick and Keith\\u2019s old stomping ground of Dartford.'