My father bought me my first Rolling Stones album when I was three. Out of Our Heads set the tone for the rest of my life, and for my four brothers. Rock and Roll to the core, baby.

“Out of Our Heads” is about as raw a rock album as you can find. It was a revolutionary sound, relying heavily on the blues, but with a distinct twist.

Rolling Stones member Brian Jones, who died in 1969, was always a mystery to me. When I was a teenager, he became kind of an anti-hero figure to my group of friends. We were both fascinated and alarmed by what drugs had done to him in that weird teenage way when you think you’ll live forever. Check out this photo from the cover of “Between the Buttons” and look at his eyes. Scary stuff.

We had always assumed, like everyone else, that Jones had died of a drug overdose. “Death by misadventure” was how the coroner put it, later memorialized in a Ted Nugent song of the same name.

Now, though, a new movie is coming out that posits a different theory, that Jones was murdered.

The Rolling Stones have given their blessing to a new film which claims finally to solve the mystery behind the death of guitarist Brian Jones.

Jones was found dead in his swimming pool in 1969, aged 27, and was initially thought to have died from a drink and drugs overdose.

But director Stephen Woolley has uncovered new evidence from a woman who was at the star’s Sussex mansion on the night he died.

Her story has been used in Stoned, which claims Jones was killed by his builder Frank Thorogood - either in an act of murder or manslaughter. […]

It was always accepted that Jones, Wohlin and Thorogood were at Jones’s home on the night he died.

But Woolley hired a private detective to track down a fourth person who had never told her story before.

The movie’s website is here. Go check it out. [Hat tip: Chicagoist]

UPDATE: The UK website is pretty good too.