Not Fade Away: My time in the 60's with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and the heartbreak of forced Adoption

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There are black and white photos of Dawn, wearing white trousers and a tight jumper, her large dark eyes looking straight at the camera lens - a mix of American beatnik and convent school prim, attesting to her Roman Catholic schooling in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth.

To rub salt in the wound, the cold Rolling Stones management thought that 'paying her off' would end any possibility of the dirty secret ever getting out, that they were protecting the band and Brian Jones from looking bad is an understatement.To feel close to his father, all he had were the official records and the memories of people who knew Brian. At the age of 17 he was kicked out of home after getting his girlfriend Valerie Corbett pregnant with his first child, Barry David.

John believes strongly that both the original investigation and the police review ignored conclusive evidence that shows Brian was murdered by Frank Thorogood. Letters found in one of the musician’s former girlfriend's lofts reveal that the disciplinarian dad told him: “I don’t suppose you will ever forgive but all I ask is some of that affection you once had for me. And now that same silence has fallen on the police review of Brian Jones's death, which came as a result of the evidence I had gathered.

Dawn told me she had married in 1965, not long after she had me - she and her husband are still together. STUBBING his cigarette out on Bill Wyman’s head in front of the cameras, legendary guitarist Brian Jones was the original rock ‘n’ roll rebel. And the Stones' management drew up a contract to stop Dawn from talking to the Press or the public about me, Brian's illegitimate son. Brian had a fling with Mick’s ex Marianne Faithfull, and Keith went off with Brian’s great love Anita Pallenberg. John, for the first time in years, thought he was getting close to the answers he wants about what really happened to his father on July 2, 1969.

What follows is a shocking account of the harsh and draconian ways in which young, unmarried mothers were treated during that era. For a short but wonderful period she was showered with his love and attention, but just as quickly, abandoned to her fate on becoming pregnant with his fifth child. When John Maynard finally saw his birth certificate, and in particular the details about his father, one word stood out. To think that middle class Anglo teenagers such as myself could recite and sing along with the Rolling Stones a black blues song that was penned by Willie Dixon and sung by Muddy Waters was now a part of my chosen and enjoyable song list. Asked how her family reacted to reading “Not Fade Away,” Molloy Young said, “Peter has been amazing and my children have been very supportive.So with the children of famous people they were checking upfront that people knew before handing over the records. The budding model had been a regular at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond-upon-Thames, the venue where the Rolling Stones started out in 1963.