Echomuse Stories

The Rolling Stones became the longest-running rock band on Earth — but the man who started it all didn’t survive the rise. Brian Jones founded the group, chose the name, and led it in the beginning.

Then the songwriting power shifted to Jagger and Richards, the excess closed in, and by 1969 the band’s own founder was out. A month later, he was found dead in his swimming pool at 27. This is the darker origin story behind the machine that never broke up — and the price paid before the legend fully began.

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