Brian Jones was a founding member, lead and rhythm guitarist and backing singer in the English rock group, The Rolling Stones. He was also known for his multi-instrumental skills, fashionable mod image, drug and sexual excesses. Jones was born during World War II.  Brian's parents were both very interested in music, and it seems their interest had a profound effect on young Brian. Jones's mother Louisa was a piano teacher and started teaching her son the instrument at a very young age. He soon learned how to read music. His parents gave him his first acoustic guitar as a present for his 17th birthday. Attending local schools including Dean Close School and Cheltenham Grammar School for Boys, Jones was known as an exceptional student, getting very high marks in all of his classes while doing relatively little work. Brian contributed significantly to the 1960's sound of the Stones, playing slide guitar on "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Little Red Rooster", "Doncha Bother Me", "No Expectations", "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I'm Moving On", the main guitar riff on "The Last Time", "Get Off of My Cloud", "19th Nervous Breakdown", sitar on "Paint It Black" and piano on "Ruby Tuesday". It was Brian Jones who played blues harp ("harmonica") on most of the Stones' recordings throughout the 1960s. He also contributed saxophone to the Beatles' "(You Know My Name) Look Up The Number". Jones and Keith Richards excelled on what is known as "guitar weaving", later dubbed the Ancient Form of Weaving. At around midnight on 3 July 1969, Brian Jones was discovered motionless at the bottom of his swimming pool at his home in Hartfield, Sussex, England, where he had been for only a matter of minutes. His girlfriend Anna Wohlin is convinced he was still alive when they took him out; she insists that he still had a pulse. However when the doctors arrived, it was too late for Brian and he was pronounced dead on the scene. The coroner's report stated "Death by misadventure," and noted that his liver and heart were heavily enlarged by drug and alcohol abuse. However, Anna Wohlin claimed in 2000 that he had been murdered by a builder who had been staying with them renovating the house the couple shared. The builder, Frank Thorogood, allegedly confessed to the murder on his death bed to the Rolling Stone's driver, Tom Keylock: however it should be noted that there were no other witnesses to this confession.