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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
This is not the first member of the Stones to pass away.
There was Brian Jones, one of the founders, and then Ian Stewart. Ian was their rock & roll pianist and was told by management that he didn't have the right looks for the band and to stay out of the limelight. He happily complied and played keyboards at the back of the stage and loaded their tour van and drove them around.
Keith Richards said: "Ian Stewart. I'm still working for him. To me The Rolling Stones is his band. Without his knowledge and organisation ... we'd be nowhere"
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Thought this bit from his wiki page was pretty funny:
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Stewart played golf, and as road manager showed a preference for hotels with courses. Richards recalls: "We'd be playing in some town where there's all these chicks, and they want to get laid and we want to lay them. But Stu would have booked us into some hotel about ten miles out of town. You'd wake up in the morning and there's the links. We're bored to death looking for some action and Stu's playing Gleneagles.
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