Stevie was so excited he fell off the stage. We sat together to watch Stevie Wonder's first UK show. Alongside the gems there was so much utter shit in the charts at the time. I hated snobbery, even though I'm sad to say I later became rather snobbish about pop versus rock. He loved pop music as well as R&B that appealed to me. Brian was really excited and enthused by it. We were together when we first heard I Got You Babe. I felt Brian was living on a higher planet of decadence than anyone I would ever meet.īrian and I used to go to a club called Scotch Of St. One time in Paris I remember they took some drug and were so sexually stimulated they could hardly wait for me to leave the room before starting to shag. It was quite hard to maintain one's gaze. Part of the time he was seeing Anita Pallenberg. We hung out a lot from about 1964 to 1966. He was musical, almost musicologist, in nature and loved to talk about music. On Last Time it was his guitar that repeated the intoxicating riff-catch.
He played very well, I thought, and played harmonica, too, in a slightly more country style than Mick. But the Mod girls in the audience (pretending to like short haired Mod style, but really wanting teddy bears in bed) screamed more at him than Mick. His stage movements were confined to an urgent head-thrust like a strutting cockerel. Brian by contrast looked like a pretty sheepdog. I spoke about Mick Jagger's effect on me on a VH1 plug-clip recently he really was quite beautiful and erotic, even to men, I think. We first met the Stones when we were still called The Detours, before Keith Moon joined the band. (Originally printed as part of MOJO's 1999 Feature)īrian Jones was a friend of mine in the early Who years.
Pete Townshend reflects on the Brian Jones he knew and pop's myth of romantic self-destruction.
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