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Name: devilsadvocate
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Subject: RE: BJ The Final Truth. Brian owned the name?
Date: Friday, July 24, 2015
Time: 9:38:49 AM
Remote Address: 135.19.19.232
Message ID: 296396
Parent ID: 296390
Thread ID: 296390
By now I think that the definite truth about Brian's demise may well never be known. Simply too much time has passed. "Witnesses" (such as they were!) have died or gotten old and memories have been altered with the passage of time. Any "clues" that were there to be found are loooooooooong gone. So there will always be an aura of mystery surrounding his death, especially in the light of the somewhat strange events that followed (namely the looting of quite a few of his possessions and the strange bonfire that was lit by a person or persons who remain unknown to this day.)
That said, I have a hard time with any of those "murder" books. I have only read the first edition of Rawlings' book but my first question would be: who are Rawlings' sources for this new material? The three people who we know were present at Brian's house the night he died (Anna Wohlin, Frank Thoroughgood and Janet Lawson) are all notoriously unreliable witnesses whose accounts have changed several times over the years.
Anna's book about her life at Cotchford with Brian reads like a fairytale and makes Keith's "Life" look like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in comparison.
Frank Thoroughgood's supposed "deathbed confession" (which was the object of Rawlings' original book) has been debunked and Frank's daughter has threatened to sue anyone who would repeat that discredited story.
I also strongly doubt that Mick and Keith ever were at Cotchford at any moment on July 2. Had they been there, surely someone would have seen them and this would have been mentioned before! Same with Tom Keylock. I'm perfectly willing to believe that Keylock made his way to Brian's house upon hearing of the death and that he may be the one who started the bonfire but I'm sure that had he been there during the day, someone would also have put him at the scene long before now. He is, after all, a very convenient villain.
When Mick, Keith and Charlie visited Brian on June 9, he was offered monetary compensation to separate himself from the band. Surely that included some form of compensation for the band's name, if in fact Brian owned it.
I don't know if Brian was murdered or if his death was an accident. No one really has any hard facts to say for certain that it was one or the other. The only thing we can say for certain is that his death was a tragedy and that we'll never know what could have been.
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