Anna Wohlin
Anna Wohlin was a young Swede, who originally came to the UK to study in Wales, but the lure of the bright lights brought her to London. She joined a dance troupe, called The Ravens, and and partied with the likes of Roman Polanski, Peter Sellers and Jimi Hendrix.
Anna Wohlin was most famously the girlfriend of The Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones. She met Brian Jones at The Speakeasy Club and although she claims she adored him, she resisted his advances for years as she did not want to be just another notch on his bedpost.
In her book she confirms that Brian Jones' life was the lifestyle you were lead to believe that being in The Rolling Stones in swinging London entailed! However by the time they got together he had given up drugs and was clean.
She lived with him in 1969 at his Cotchford Farm home and was there the night Brian Jones died in his swimming pool in mysterious circumstances.
Anna Wohlin did not attend Brian Jones funeral but returned to Sweden. The tragedy sent Wohlin into a deep and long-lasting shock and then suffered a miscarriage of the child she and Brian Jones did not even know they were expecting. She says The Rolling Stones' management stepped in and took her away, back to Sweden. "I was just a nuisance, I was just a problem." said Wohlin.
For years Wohlin had refused to talk about their time together, not least because she claims she had signed a contract with The Rolling Stones' management to discuss his death only with their agreement. This is again something Tom Keylock disputes, "Nobody offered her any money to keep her mouth shut. No threats. She lives in cuckoo-land if she said that"
Having married and settled down back in Sweden, Anna Wohlin finally decided she would go public after she and her husband divorced a decade ago. "I kept silent all these years because, even if I had friends who [would have] supported me, I was a little bit scared over it. I knew something was very wrong. He didn't die of drowning because he was drunk and drugged, but how could I prove it? I couldn't."
She wrote her book (titled either "The Murder of Brian Jones" or later re-issued as "The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones") as the legions of stories circulating about Brian being drugged up to the eyeballs at the time of his death, did not represent the man she knew. This was later used as the basis for "Stoned" a film of the life and death of Brian Jones.
The History of Anna Wohlin
Brian Jones Funeral held in his home town of Cheltenham
Lewis Brian Jones was buried in his home town of Cheltenham on July 10th, 1969. The funeral service was held at St Mary’s Parish Church and he was buried in Cheltenham Cemetery.
Before the funeral, fans had already sent enough flowers to fill the cemetery, including a guitar shaped arrangement from Brian’s family and a huge arrangement spelling out “Gates of Heaven” from The Rolling Stones.
On the day of the funeral the town was besieged with tearful fans, curious onlookers and swarms of press photographers. The 14-car funeral procession crawled to the cemetery at a pace even more stately than usual as its progress was blocked by the surging crowds.
Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones dies in his Swimming Pool
As 1968 drew to a close, Brian Jones did what all rock-stars now do and bought himself a country retreat. Cotchford Farm is a country manor house in the East Sussex countryside, formerly owned by A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie The Pooh books, and included a large outdoor swimming pool.
Around midnight on July 2nd, Brian Jones was found at the bottom of his swimming pool in mysterious circumstances. All attempts to revive him failed. He was 27.
The coroners report found that while Brian Jones had been drinking there was no evidence of hard drugs in his system. However the police investigation and coroners report have left many unanswered questions, but the verdict to this day remains that Brian Jones died through misadventure.
Brian Jones Leaves The Rolling Stones
Brian Jones‘ relationship with the other Rolling Stones had broken down. Along with the Brian’s deteriorating relationship with the other Stones his health was deteriorating with his dependency on various narcotics. Also Brian Jones, the blues purist, had been unhappy with the direction The Rolling Stones were taking had barely played on “Let It Bleed” the situation could not continue and on on June 8th, 1969 Brian Jones and The Rolling Stones parted company.
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