Golden boy: Brian Jones, September 1965
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IN 1963, Nick Broomfield spotted Brian Jones on a Cheltenhambound train, and was invited into his first-class compartment to chat. “I was 14 and at boarding school,” the director recalls, “and he represented an anti-authoritarian way of being. It turned out he was a trainspotter, and was on that line quite a lot. He was extremely friendly, and happy for me to come in and sit down. It’s one of those events you remember.”