{"product_id":"godstar-an-unreleased-film-about-brian-jones","title":"Godstar. An unreleased film about Brian Jones.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVarious. 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn archive of material relating to an unreleased film about Brian Jones, the founder of The Rolling Stones. The project was led by Genesis P-Orridge, the artist, musician and co-founder of industrial music pioneers, Throbbing Gristle. P-Orridges worked on the proposals for the film with the writer Jon Savage who wrote the seminal work,\u003cem\u003e England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eThe archive consists of: \u003cbr\u003e1. A copy of the seven inch vinyl single Godstar by Psychic TV and published by Temple Records. The back cover of the sleeve notes that \"Godstar is the theme song from the forthcoming film of the same name\" and mentions that shooting of the film begins on February 28th 1986. Issued with a second record \u003cem\u003eDiscopravity\u003c\/em\u003e with the B side entitled \u003cem\u003eYes, it's the B side.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e2. Promotional postcard for the single, with a photograph of Jones and inscribed on the reverse \"1st July 85. Dearest Jon, here is thee transparency, a gift from us, love Gen\". \u003cbr\u003e3. A declaration of the film's poetic direction and the general basis of the project. Two pages of photocopied typed noted by P-Orridge with some holograph notes by Savage on the verso. \u003cbr\u003e4.\u003cem\u003e Brian Jones Died for your Sins.\u003c\/em\u003e Orange paper, 13pp corner stapled. A transcripts of a 1971 BBC Radio 4 documentary about Jones. Inscribed on the front cover from Genesis to Savage. \u003cbr\u003e5. \u003cem\u003eBrian Jones Documentary: Title TBA. \u003c\/em\u003eFour page typescript by Jon Sage (Savage's real name) \u0026amp; David Brooks, 1984. With some manuscript corrections by Savage. \u003cbr\u003e6. \u003cem\u003eBrian Jones. \u003c\/em\u003eOne-third of a page of typed notes with further manuscript notes by Savage and a further page of manuscript notes by Savage. \u003cbr\u003e7. Invitation from The Temple ov Psychic Youth and Godstar Dreams to \"memorial wake up party for Brian Jones\" at the now defunct 3rd Street Club in Cromwell Road, London. 3rd July 1986. \u003cbr\u003e8. List of television appearances from the Rolling Stone, including Top of the Pops, with further visual sources. Four pages with a manuscript note by Savage. \u003cbr\u003e9. Magazines with Brian Jones as the cover star. Copies of\u003cem\u003e Pop Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e No 10, 31st October 1964 and \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e no 39, July 26th 1969. \u003cbr\u003eArchive is preserved in a beige card folder entitled \"Brian Jones, 80s-60s\". Folder with some wear and tears. The contents of the archive are in excellent condition. A fascinating and unique collection providing an insight into the original plans and research into this film project which would have brought together two of the leading figures of the 1960s and 1980s musical counterculture. \u003cbr\u003eThe film Godstar was, in the words of Savage and P-Orridge, to be \"an examination of the individual forces that drove Brian Jones to his early death - his own psychology, his troubled relationship with the other members of The Rolling Stones, particularly Mick Jagger\" as well as exploring \"what was happening in Western Society during the 1960s - the cult of youth, the quasi-divine treatment of pop stars, and the short circuiting of the whole drug revolution\". \u003cbr\u003eA range of filmic techniques were to be utilised to \"evoke psychich states\" with an emphasis on the work of Brion Gysin who \"introduced Brian Jones to music that was to prove one of the enduring interests in the last years of his life, the Moroccan music of the Jajouka\". They intended to use Gysin's dream machine \"with its psychotropic properties...the perfect metaphor for Jones's fascinations during the last years of his life\", using the camera to imply disorientation as much as transcendence. P-Orridge wrote \"Thee 60s were portrayed as soft and hippyish, yet thee [P-Orridge spelt the definite article thus] anarchy and nihilism of \"have you seen\" and \"Beggars Banquet\" outstrips in a lasting way thee Punk pose of S. Pistols at their peak. There was always a contradiction\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P-ORRIDGE, Genesis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222586990969,"sku":"5162","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/Godstar2.jpg?v=1778076196","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/products\/godstar-an-unreleased-film-about-brian-jones","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}