Brian Jones' Pool Tiles for Sale

LONDON (AP) â€” For sale: swimming pool tiles, slightly used, place in rock infamy. <br><br>The Brian Jones Fan Club is selling tiles from the pool where the charismatic Rolling Stones guitarist was found

Friday, November 17th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

LONDON (AP) â€” For sale: swimming pool tiles, slightly used, place in rock infamy.

The Brian Jones Fan Club is selling tiles from the pool where the charismatic Rolling Stones guitarist was found dead on July 3, 1969.

``It's not as macabre as it sounds,'' said the fan club's David Reynolds. ``It's just owning something that your hero owned and touched and chose.''

Jones, 27, was found dead of a drug overdose at his country house, Cotchford Farm â€” one-time home of ``Winnie the Pooh'' author A.A. Milne.

Each tile costs $175 and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Ten percent goes to put up a statue of Jones in his home town of Cheltenham, a genteel spa town 120 miles west of London.

Since the sale began on the club's Web site in September, 140 of the 320 blue ceramic tiles have been bought by collectors. The fund has raised $5,700 â€” about one-sixth the cost of the statue.