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1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Total fabrication Jun 01, 2009
The author is described in her bio as a ghost writer. That is exactly right, because in this book she believes she is speaking to the ghost of Brian Jones and then passes this delusion off as fact. This is the most irresponsible piece of trash I have ever read.
14 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 REVEALS WHAT NO OTHER BOOK ON BRIAN HAS THE GUTS TO May 26, 2009
There seems to be several bad reviews of this book "Straight From the Heart" including the Brian Jones Fan Club. The Author Gloria Shepherd does go way out leaning towards fantasy saying Brian was a prostitute, that he washed in mud puddles while living on the streets of his early teen years. Ms Shepherd did state that Brian's house keeper was raped by the so called construction workers at his home in Cotchford Farms and this is a very true statement as that did occur..Yet even though there are many other untruths in this book, I find myself (described as a true die hard Brian Jones fan), looking for what's really hidden here..Something so deep one has to put a note inside the front cover stating this book is for entertainment purposes and not to be taken as fact, accuracy, or authenticity on the subject matter. So with that disclaimer being stated, ask yourself why would a person write a book on the life and murder of Brian Jones only to turn around and condemn it? That people, your customers buying the book would say why should I waste my time and money, the book is a fraud? The reason is that this book unlike no other book done on Brian's murder, places one called Michael Phillip Jagger at the scene of the murder and also accuses him of being the murderer that July 2, 1969 night, and I too believe this to be correct and later facts have come out to support this. This is author Gloria Shepherd explaining the Jagger concept, even his involvement of Brian's death so she would certainly need protection as she proceeds to explain Jagger wanted Brian OUT more then Allen Klein and ABKCO Records. And OUT meaning dead, not go start another group, here is some money, now go live a happy life.
Brian Jones was set up from the 1966 period and onward to start looking paranoid, insecure, and unfit to be the leader of the Rolling Stones. In 1968 and 1969 as his music abilities began to falter due to his drug abuse the stage was now set proving Brian was a liability and find a way to get rid of him. Mind you know one ever said hey Brian stop the drugs, we love you, we need you, instead those around him encouraged him, even supplied him, all the while Jagger was waiting for the final fall as he stayed in control. Stranger yet Brian would buy a house with a inground pool with it.. Brian was on the swim team in high school, he liked the diving part a whole lot, and while out on a trip with the other Stones swam a mile out into the ocean in Morocco this is also in this book, and many others writers have stated it in their books too.. In the book called "Stone Alone" by Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, Bill talks much of money and how long you have to wait as a Rolling Stone to get approval of your payments past for all purchases through ABKCO records. Wyman shows a lot of waiting going on in his book, including his own house, yet Brian's purchase of this particular house was not delayed even though many of Brian's personal clothing items and instruments were waiting a long time.. Mmmm I can see evil minds are at work here, this house will have a good plot. I wish one could answer this question did Brian pick this house out or did someone point him in that direction?..
Mick Jagger was always very jealous of Brian, both musically and with the fans. Later having thoughts of Brian Jones forming a new super group after leaving the Stones was incomprehenible to Jagger and Jagger insisting on keeping the bands name was really the final straw for Brian as this was his last right of self worth, knowing he started and formed this band and now it was famous all over the world only to be taken away by the person Brian picked out for the part of lead singer Mick Jagger..Now with Brian out, Jagger had complete control as he always wanted, with music, with managers, with how much money can we make, and to make it better he was now the undisputed leader of the Rolling Stones world famous band. In a way Jagger sucked the life right out of Brian Jones. In the end Mick Jagger, Allen Klein, and ABKCO records all wanted to make sure it was done and done right with the perfect ending, DEATH..This book gives a riveting insight to how, and a house with a swimming pool made it all too easy a perfect cover up..
As stated in this book, in truth many people were there the night Brian died, and they are still afraid to talk about it to this day. Also stated is what happened to the local Taxi driver Ms. Joan Fitzsimons who took away guests before the police were summoned, and stating she saw Mick Jagger there at Brian's house the night he died seeing Jagger fleeing at a fast rate of speed in his car. Later she would pay for making that statement with an assault on her life including a trip to the hospital located in Chichester that was published in the newspapers, she was left blinded as the rock that was used to bash her head in, fractured bones into her optic nerve that caused her to loose her eye sight.
Somehow in those early years whatever happened between Brian and Jagger intimately had a lot to do with the retaliation that Jagger plagued Brian's life with. Jagger would never get over it. Years later shows Keith Richards still standing by Jagger's side surely aware of Jagger's wrong doing of Brian, as Keith tries to escape more and more into drugs trying to forget all the evilness done.. Bill Wyman had enough sense to get out .. The book Straight From The Heart puts blood on the hands of Michael Phillip Jagger, where it belongs. How ironic and tragic that the superdome of the Rolling Stones is a lie..If the real truth was told we should all burn anything Rolling Stones after 7-02-1969.. When Brian died is was over. In honor to this author Gloria Shepherd who has guts and courage I have put up several of my own Rolling Stone pictures and some taken during a June 1966 concert as I was backstage with them..There are two pictures up on this book review that have nothing to do with the Rolling Stones and I have asked amazon.com to take them off, but they are still there. I'd like to thank you Ms. Shepherd for stating publically what many of us have all ready known for years, and the rest of you need to open up your minds and your eyes to...
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
brian jones...new information Sep 08, 2008
i have read many books on brian jones, and this is the most outrageous yet. i wonder where she gets her information from, as i have never read anything like it before. at first i put it all down to someones imagination running riot.....but names are named, and surely she would not have named people if they were blatant lies...also police have been involved in some of the accusations in the book...so i remain firmly on the fence...however as a bj fan, it adds more fuel to the fire as to the awful way he was treated by mj and kr....make up your own minds, but i hope that truths will come out and guilty people get whats coming to them.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Not Another Boring Biography! Aug 20, 2008
I've read many biographies and take it for granted when I open a new book that it'll contain mainly dates, facts and dry reading with little or no personality. Happily this isn't the case with Brian Jones Straight from the Heart! Although the book is quite a number of pages long, I found that once starting it I couldn't put it down and finished it before the week was up. Tough going when you consider I'm a single mom with 2 kids under 10 years.
Maybe it's because the author had Brian Jones' own audiotapes to work from that enabled the story to move along as if Brian himself was still alive and revisiting his too short life. Even though the story does have much sex talk, it isn't offensive but rather made necessary for the reader to know who Jones actual was as a young man living during very promiscuous times.
I have to say that his death/murder appears to have been very unexpected-at least unexpected once you learn who actually caused his "unexpected" death. Brian did foresee the end coming but appears to have been taken completely by surprise by the one person he never imagined would actually follow through with his threats.
Horrible ending for such a promising life.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
OUTSTANDING! Aug 10, 2008
After having read most of what's out there on the Rolling Stones history, I must say this is as candid an account of what makes the band so notorious. Nothing is held back or sanitized in laying out the Stones early days and illustrating how their successes were actually achieved.
I appreciate how difficult it had to have been to delve into this type of story and wish to thank the author for her tenacity in bringing it forward.
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