How Brian Jones’s Collapsed Lung in 1962 Reshaped Early Rolling Stones Dynamics

In August 1962, just weeks after the Rolling Stones played their first ever gig at London’s Marquee Club, Brian Jones was hospitalized with a collapsed lung. Heavy smoking (he already smoked three packs a day) combined with chronic asthma had finally punched a hole in his pleura. Jones was the band’s founder, its primary arranger, and the one who’d recruited every initial member—but this was the first major crack