Get a Line On You [Brian Jones]

Girlfriends Part 5: Anna Wohlin

Sorry this chapter took me a bit long and considering what is in it, there's no real excuse for it either...

Usually I make this about the girl and a bit of background and some info about her with Brian, but with Anna we'll go from a different angle, because well of all the murder claims and death mysteries, so  we'll talk about that and there's this newish article about her that kind of covers everything so please enjoy and don't hate me for being lazy. I actually have a nice idea for the next chapter,but first let's talk about Anna.

Anna Wohlin should have had a VIP pass the last time The Rolling Stones played London's Hyde Park.

The pretty young Swedish dancer was meant to be backstage in 1969 watching the band  introduce their new guitarist – the replacement for founder member Brian Jones who'd been sacked a month before.

Anna never made it to that iconic gig, but unlike thousands of veteran fans she has no desire to be in the park tonight as the ­legendary rockers return, 44 years later.

For Anna was Brian Jones' lover...and two days before the gig she'd dragged his lifeless body from the swimming pool of his Sussex farmhouse and tried in vain to revive him.

Yet, before the tragedy on July 3, 1969, she and Brian had planned to go to the Hyde Park concert together – so he could publicly show he had no hard feelings about leaving the Rolling Stones.

"Instead of being backstage with Brian I was in a hotel room nearby," reveals Anna. "I was broken...in total shock. Fans were gathering with candles and I wanted to go and say goodbye to Brian."

"But I was in no fit state. I didn't realise then but I was a nuisance – a problem to the Stones management. They knew I knew what really happened on the night Brian died."

The events following Brian's death have gone down in the annals of pop history, with Anna's role reduced to a mere footnote.

Rock legend has it Brian, 27, drowned under the influence of drugs and booze, after going off the rails when the Stones fired him.

Conspiracy theorists insist he was murdered – and police reviewed the case as recently as 2010 but did not reopen inquiries.

But in an exclusive interview with the Mirror, Anna has rekindled the riddle of the death and Brian's rift with the band.

She sensationally claims Brian  WAS killed, in a scuffle with disgruntled minder Frank Thorogood, said to have been fired by Jones that day – but the truth was covered up to protect the band's image.

Her account is supported by Thorogood's alleged death bed confession 20 years ago.

Anna says: "Brian is still portrayed as a bitter, worn-out and depressed man who was fired because of his drug habit...and who died because he was drunk or high. But my Brian was a wonderful, charismatic man who was happier than ever, had given up drugs and was looking forward to pursuing the musical career he wanted. We'd been blissfully happy together for three months and he and I had planned to go to watch the Hyde Park gig. Brian wasn't bitter about Mick Taylor replacing him – he was quite relieved actually. He had wanted to leave the band for some time before they asked him to go. He didn't like the direction the music was taking – he wanted to play blues – and he didn't want to tour America any more."