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Mick Jagger, lead singer of The Rolling Stones, co-founded the band in 1962 after a chance meeting with Keith Richards on a Dartford train. The group’s 1965 hit Satisfaction became an international hit, and Jagger was knighted by King Charles III in 2003. He has also acted in films like Performance 1970 and produced the movie Enigma 2001.
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At age 4, Mick Jagger met Keith Richards at Wentworth Primary School, but they lost touch until a 1960 encounter on the Dartford train line sparked a shared passion for rock and blues. Born Michael Philip Jagger on July 26, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, to middle-class parents Eva and Joe Jagger, he attended Dartford Grammar School and later studied at the London School of Economics before committing fully to music.
The Rolling Stones formed in 1962 with Jagger on lead vocals and harmonica, Keith Richards on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Charlie Watts on drums, and Brian Jones on guitar. Their debut album The Rolling Stones 1964 was followed by the UK number-one single The Last Time 1965 and the international hit I Can’t Get No Satisfaction 1965. After Brian Jones died in 1969, Mick Taylor joined for the album Let It Bleed 1969. Jagger starred in the film Performance 1970 and released his first solo hit Memo from Turner.
In 1971 the band released Sticky Fingers, featuring hits Brown Sugar and Wild Horses. Throughout the 1970s the Stones toured the world, producing singles like Angie 1973, It’s Only Rock and Roll 1974, and Miss You 1978. In 1974 Ronnie Wood replaced Mick Taylor. Tensions between Jagger and Richards led to solo projects: Jagger recorded with The Jacksons on State of Shock 1984 and performed at Live Aid 1985. The band reunited for the Steel Wheels album 1989 and the massive Voodoo Lounge tour 1994-1995.
Jagger married Bianca Jagger in 1971; they divorced in 1980. With Jerry Hall, he married in 1990 after a secret affair that began while she was engaged to Bryan Ferry in 1976; the marriage ended in 1999 after Jagger fathered a child with Luciana Gimenez. He has eight children: Karis with Marsha Hunt, born 1970, Jade with Bianca, born 1971, Elizabeth, James, Georgia, Gabriel with Jerry Hall, Lucas with Luciana Gimenez, born 1999, and Deveraux with Melanie Hamrick, born 2016. Model Carla Bruni was a romantic link, and L’Wren Scott was a long-term companion until her death in 2014.
King Charles III knighted Jagger on December 12, 2003. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him as a member of The Rolling Stones in 1989. He and Keith Richards won the Ivor Novello Special Award for Songwriting in 2005. Rolling Stone voted The Rolling Stones the 4th Greatest Rock & Roll Artists of all time. Jagger’s career has spanned six decades.
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I’d Rather Be Dead Than Singing Satisfaction When I’m Forty Five.
Either We Stay at Home and Become Pillars of the Community or We Go Out and Tour. We Couldn’t Really Find Any Communities That Still Needed Pillars.
I Am Conservative with a Small C. It’s Possible to Be Conservative in Fiscal Policy, and Tolerant on Moral Issues or Questions of Freedom of Expression.
All Dancing Is a Replacement for Sex.
Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing.
It’s All Right Letting Yourself Go, as Long as You Can Get Yourself Back.
Solomon Burke Had Such a Great Voice…powerful but in Total Control. It Oozed Soul. the Great Man Had a Wonderful Sense of Phrasing and Dynamics Born Out of the Church and Gospel Experience. We Loved That and He Was a Huge Influence on All of Us, but Especially Myself in Those Early Formative Years.
When I First Went to America, I Met James Brown at the Apollo, and He Let Me Hang Out with Him and Watch His Shows. I Copied All of His Moves. I Used to Do His Slide Across the Stage, When You Move Laterally from One Side of the Stage to the Other, Twisting Your Foot on One Leg. I Couldn’t Do the Splits, so I Didn’t Even Bother. Everyone Did the Microphone Trick, Where You Pushed the Microphone, Then You Put Your Foot on It , and It Comes Back. James Probably Did It Best.
‘Between the Buttons’ Is a Terrible Album… More or Less Rubbish.
The Thing That Bugs Me Is That I Get Treated Like the Grandfather of Pop.
They Thought ‘We Can Never Have a Guy Like That in a Film, He’s a Junkie Satanist!’
Little-known facts about Mick Jagger — origins, oddities, and behind-the-scenes details from a public life.
When he took his son to the school he attended, teachers were excited but kids just said, ‘Ere. It’s that man that used to be in The Beatles.
He sang backup vocals on Carly Simon’s hit You’re So Vain; his accent is more noticeable toward the end.
With Keith Richards, Jagger paid for the funeral of blues musician Hubert Sumlin in recognition of his influence on the band.
He supposedly tried out for the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975.
He speaks French fluently.
He was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Rolling Stones in 1989.
In protest at high income tax under Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, he became a tax exile in France from the late 1960s to early 1970s and has never officially lived in the UK since.
The North American leg of the Rolling Stones’ 1994 Voodoo Lounge Tour was the most financially successful tour in history at that time.
His 1971 hit Brown Sugar was written for then-lover Marsha Hunt.
He is a big fan of The Beach Boys; he stated in 1964 that their song I Get Around was one of the greatest he had ever heard.
His youngest child, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger, was born on December 8, 2016, to girlfriend Melanie Hamrick, an American ballerina.
He is the grandfather of Assisi born 1992 and Amba Jagger born 1996, children of his daughter Jade.
As a member of The Rolling Stones, he performed for over 500,000 people on July 30, 2003 at Downsview Park in Toronto, a benefit for SARS victims.
He was romantically linked to former model Carla Bruni, who later became First Lady of France.
He was a longtime companion of model L’Wren Scott from 2001 until her death in 2014.
The song Angie was based on Jagger’s breakup with Marianne Faithfull, not David Bowie’s ex-wife; Keith Richards came up with the name at random.
He was knighted by King Charles III on December 12, 2003.
His personal fortune is estimated at £215 million.
He attended the London School of Economics.
The lyrics to Wild Horses were reportedly written about Marianne Faithfull, who miscarried Jagger’s child; Gram Parsons also inspired the song.
He was invited to the orchestral session for The Beatles’ All You Need Is Love.
The Rolling Stones were voted the 4th Greatest Rock & Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
He began a secret affair with Jerry Hall while she was still engaged to Bryan Ferry in 1976.
His father, Joe Jagger, died of pneumonia at age 93 on November 11, 2006.
He was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame as part of The Rolling Stones on November 11, 2004.
He and Keith Richards won the Ivor Novello Special Award for Songwriting in 2005.
He is portrayed by Viktor Norén in the film Eight Miles High 2007.
During the 1970s he owned Stargroves mansion in Hampshire, used as a recording facility by The Who and Led Zeppelin, and for filming Doctor Who location scenes.
As his mother Eva was an active member, he has been a longtime supporter of the British Conservative Party.
His father Basil Fanshawe Jagger, called Joe, was a teacher; his mother Eva Ensley Mary Scutts was Australian; he grew up in a middle-class family.
He sang as a guest vocalist on The Jacksons’ hit State of Shock 1984.
He failed an audition for the F. Murray Abraham role in Amadeus 1984; A Clockwork Orange 1971 was conceived as a possible vehicle for The Rolling Stones with Jagger as Alex.
As of 2010, Jagger has fathered 8 children from 2 marriages and 5 women: Karis Jagger 1970, Jade Jagger 1971, Elizabeth Jagger 1984, James Jagger 1985, Georgia Jagger 1992, Gabriel Jagger 1997, Lucas Jagger 1999, and Deveraux Jagger 2016.
His brother, Chris Jagger, is also a musician.
He attended Dartford Grammar School and was president of the school photographic society, allowing him keys to the dark room—a place to take girls during dances.
He was a frequent guest at the infamous Studio 54.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with Keith Richards in 1993.
On May 11, 2003, he was voted the 83rd Worst Briton in Channel 4’s poll of the 100 Worst Britons.
He is the lead singer and harmonica player of The Rolling Stones; in 1985 he performed with Tina Turner at Live Aid in Philadelphia.
He had nine US number-one singles with The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction 1965, Get Off Of My Cloud 1965, 19th Nervous Breakdown 1966, Paint It Black 1966, Ruby Tuesday 1967, Honky Tonk Women 1969, Brown Sugar 1971, Angie 1973, and Miss You 1978.
His favorite Martin Scorsese film is Kundun 1997.
In 2009, The Sunday Times estimated his net worth at $311 million.
He was voted the 4th Sexiest Artist in Music History in VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists 2002.
He has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine twenty times, first in 1968 and most recently in 2005.
The Rolling Stones’ final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on November 23, 1969 featured Love In Vain, Gimme Shelter, and Country Honk.
He is portrayed by Luke de Woolfson in Stoned 2005.
In September 2002, The Rolling Stones began their 40th Anniversary Licks Tour in Boston at the Fleet Center.
In August 2005, The Rolling Stones began another tour starting in late August.
At Knebworth in 1976, The Rolling Stones played to their single largest paying audience: 200,000 people attended.
He has homes in several countries.
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