Trivia / Brian Jones

• In Memoriam:
  • During the Stones' 1969 Hyde Park concert, held two days after Jones's death, Mick Jagger eulogized him by reading portions of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1821 poem "Adonais" ^note written as an elegy for John Keats aloud.
  • invoked The 1969 Stones compilation Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) is dedicated to Jones, and the sleeve notes include an epitaph he'd composed for himself (quoted at the top of the main page).

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