27 CLUB CONTEXT

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“Brian Jones is to the Rolling Stones what Leon Trotsky was to the Russian Revolution: organizer, ideologist and victim of a power struggle. Jones founded the group, gave it its name and recruited the schoolboys Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who then marginalized him, eventually expelling him from the band. Since his death in 1969, a month after he was forced out, Jones has largely been airbrushed from the group’s history.” - Paul Trynka 

The main themes I want to express in the artwork is how the band has deleted Brian Jones from memory and affiliation of The Rolling Stones. He was an original itegral part of the band, he made the name, started the band, he was the most musically gifted in the band, and is an unsung hero helping to write some of the bands most popular songs, but did so from behind the scenes.  

“I used to say to Brain, ‘What on earth are you doing?’ ” Stan Blackbourne, the accountant for the Rolling Stones at their mid-1960s peak, recalls in the book. “ ‘You write some of these songs, and you give the name over as if Mick Jagger has done it. Do you understand, you’re giving ’em thousands of pounds!’ All the time I used to tell him, ‘You’re writing a blank check.’ ” - Paul Trynka - Sympathy for the Devil  

“Mick and Keith should stand up and say, ‘No, this is wrong. We didn’t create the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones did. Brian Jones chose the name the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones decided what music we would play, and Brian Jones enlisted every member into his band in 1962 and ’63.’ That’s what they should say, but they ain’t going to, are they?”

Bill Whyman (Ex member of The Rolling Stones)