#violet lawrence

[omg-hellgirl]

Brian complained a lot about Mick and Keith ganging up on him. Brian wrote a lot of music, always playing it on his guitar for us, but he was bitter that none of it was ever performed by the Stones. Mick seemed jealous of him. Mick used to come to our house, that's how we know about his jealousy.

— Alex and Violet Lawrence, Linda Lawrence's parents.

[manhwa-animated-cover]

[villainessque]

[aastradore]

[omg-hellgirl]

When Linda had their baby Brian came to the hospital and asked her to marry him. We opposed that because Brian was into drugs by then, and we feared for her. She probably would have married him if we hadn't opposed it so vehemently. Brian was concerned about Julian and wanted to provide for him.

— Alex and Violet Lawrence, Linda Lawrence's parents.

[cherryblossomssmash]

[brianjonesoftherollingstones]

Early Years

Through The Past Darkly - Part I. Quotes & Impressions "It's there (the Marquee) I met Brian Jones for the first time". It was 1962, Jones "was twenty and just down from Cheltenham, which is a spa city, very genteel, a bit snob, like all such places." Jones was the most posh of the group - Gomelsky remembers the rest of them, London boys, making fun of his accent, as well as his lisp. He was small and handsome, well educated, fey, sort of the deacon's son from the suburbs slumming it in the big city. [...] Brian was actually a very good instrumentalist". Giorgio Gomelsky "At the audition, I played a little barroom ragtime on the pub's piano, and then Brian took his guitar and we jammed together and I could tell right off that Brian was a talent - he knew his rhythm and blues and he could really handle his slide guitar. When I discovered Brian could also play saxophone, harmonica, clarinet, just about every band instrument, I was certainly impressed with his musical abilities." Ian Stewart, on the audition at the Bricklayer's Arms "He seems never to have been able to find himself, he had a lost quality, not knowing what he wanted to do, or unable to express some part of himself. He was actually quite a nice person who didn't want people to think he was nice. He wanted to be known as an evil character, but he wasn't really, and the end result of it was he just had to be so off to everybody." Ian Stewart, on Brian's character "Brian was consumed with fear. That was his most prominent trait - fearfulness." Violet and Alex Lawrence (Linda's parents), on their sympathies for Brian "When we met Brian he was the only one who was really interested in forming a band. Mick and I were just interested in playing. We hadn't got to the point of thinking of putting a real band together. When we bumped into Brian it accelerated. Without meeting Brian we probably wouldn't have thought about forming a band for much longer. As far as we were concerned, we were just starting." Keith Richards