Mick Jagger’s 80 Wildest, Coolest, Most Outrageous Moments
Happy 80th birthday to a man of wealth and taste
Mick Jagger’s 80 Wildest, Coolest, Most Outrageous Moments
Happy 80th birthday to a man of wealth and taste
Two 18-year-old English schoolboys — former childhood classmates — notice each other on the platform, all because Mick is carrying a couple of blues records. Keith’s on his way to art college, Mick’s off to the London School of Economics. But they start chatting when Keith sees the Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry albums under Mick’s arm. The beginning of music’s most bizarrely long-lived dysfunctional brotherhood.Mick lays a divorcee in New York City
1969
NEW YORK – 1969: Lead singer Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs on the stage at Madison Square Garden on November 28, 1969 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Walter Iooss Jr./Getty Images)
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Mick peacocks across Top 40 radio with the sleepwalk sex swagger of “Honky Tonk Women,” where the poor boy sounds exhausted by his busy bed-hopping schedule. He leers over the guitars and cowbell, as if if he’s slipping into a post-coital coma, chewing up the punchline: “She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.” It hits Number One for four weeks — the Stones’ biggest U.S. single. READ MORE