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Brian Jones, rock 'n' roll godstar; founder member of the Rolling Stones, the murdered androgyne whose fragile psyche was ultimately broken by an industry which, nonetheless, provided him with the means to luxuriate in the bizarre and unorthodox.
Jones's alcohol and drug excesses, his tormented and often psychotic states, his dandified propensity to cross-dress, his love of literature, privileged background and expensive speaking voice all placed him in the decadent tradition, the last of a rarefied aesthete's lineage. His tragic murder at the age of twenty seven further substantiated his place in the Byronic legend of the chosen one who dies young.
In The Last Decadent, author Jeremy Reed locates in Jones's obsessive fantasy world a terrain firmly aligned with the opium visions of Charles Baudelaire, the sartorial extravagence of Oscar Wilde, the sybaritic indulgences of Count Stenbock. Reed vividly recolours Brian Jones's brief, but incandescent and extraordinarily subversive life amidst the pop and fashion whirlwind of the Sixties, and in doing so presents perhaps the most illuminating and evocative portrait yet written of a fallen rock 'n' roll angel.
Includes 16 pages of photographs.
Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Brian Jones's death, The Last Decadent completes Jeremy Reed's trilogy of pop icon studies which began with Marc Almond: The Last Star and continued with Scott Walker: Another Tear Falls.
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Founder member of the Rolling Stones and pretty-boy sixties icon, whose life ended tragically at the age of 27. This biographical appreciation is the most illuminating and evocative portrait of the fallen rock 'n' roll angel whose fragile psyche was ultimately destroyed by the industry in which he flourished.
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