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Topic: Brian Jones Statute Fund gets rolling! Return to archive
12-05-02 10:34 AM
VoodooChileInWOnderl STATUE FUND GETS ROLLING


10:30 - 05 December 2002

Donations have been rolling in to fund a statue in memory of ex-Cheltenham Grammar School pupil Brian Jones.

The appeal was launched by the Brian Jones Fan Club in 1998 and has raised more than �5,300 including donations from the USA and Japan.

Another �1,000 came from the sale of tiles from the pool where the founder of the Rolling Stones died. One is now in a Sydney nightclub.

While the club is still some way off its �25,000 target, the difference may be able to be made up from a sale of scale models of the statue.

Club president David Reynolds said they had approached Pangolin Editions, in Stroud, about the models.

If 20 are made and the mould is broken, they could sell for up to �1,000 each.

The club is considering two designs: one of the star standing playing his guitar, and one of him sitting playing a sitar.

The club wants to site the bronze statue in The Promenade.

Mr Reynolds said: "People who visit Cheltenham want something they can admire instead of just going to a graveyard and feeling depressed."

The club unveiled a blue plaque on the rock star's childhood home in Eldorado Road in July. There is also a plaque outside Hassans Restaurant in Bath Road where the former star once lived.

Brian Jones was 27 when he died at his home in Sussex in 1969. He is buried in Cheltenham Cemetery.
12-05-02 01:27 PM
sasca I do hope it happens. Brian preening every day at the bastards who made school-children look away from his funeral procession. I can almost hear him laughing.