Singer, born in Dartford, Kent, SE England, UK. He attended the London School of Economics, but left to form his own rock group, The Rolling Stones, together with Keith Richard, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and Brian Jones. Following their debut in London (1962), the group released its first single, Come On (1963). Jagger's unconvential behaviour on stage, and the group's uninhibited lifestyles, cultivated a rebellious image which appealed to a generation of teenagers during the 1960s. He wrote and sang many of their hit singles including The Last Time (1965), I Can't Get No Satisfaction (1965), Honky Tonk Woman (1969), and various albums. He released two solo albums, She's the Boss (1985) and Primitive Cool (1987). Still popular after three decades, the group released the Steel Wheels album (1988), and went on tour (1989). They were still in the album charts in the 1990s with the release of Flashpoint (1991), Voodoo Lounge (1994), and Bridges to Babylon (1997), and in 2005 released A Bigger Bang with accompanying tour. In 2001 Jagger released a further solo album, Goddess in the Doorway. His film appearances include Performance (1968), Ned Kelly (1969), and Freejack (1992). He received a knighthood in 2002.
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer, and businessman.
Early life
Jagger was born into a middle-class family at Livingstone Hospital, East Hill, Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil "Joe" Jagger, and his paternal grandfather were both teachers; Jagger was the older of two sons and was raised to follow in his father's career path.
This decision was not approved by his mother and was reluctantly accepted by his father. Jagger has stated in interviews he could not blame his parents for their mistrust of his choice;
As a student, Jagger frequented a London club called "the Firehouse". At the age of 19, Jagger began performing as a singer. Like Keith Richards and other members of the Rolling Stones, Jagger had no formal musical training and did not know how to read music.
While Jagger knew Keith Richards as a schoolmate, the songwriters reunited when Richards saw Jagger with a blues record under his arm, and asked him where he purchased it. It was Oldham who insisted that Jagger call himself "Mick" rather than "Mike", a name he continued to use among friends;
The Rolling Stones
Jagger was not an immediate success as lead singer of The Rolling Stones. By his own admission, he was a stiff and awkward school boy in front of an audience, but in the same way the Stones learned how to play and write songs – through imitating other artists – Jagger developed a stage presence. When the Stones began to play live gigs throughout England with other artists, such as Ike and Tina Turner, Jagger learned from other singers how to work an audience and quickly developed his own unique style.
The London years
In 1967, Jagger and Richards were arrested and charged with drug possession after a highly-publicised raid on Richards' country house, during which it was alleged that Marianne Faithfull was found naked except for a fur rug wrapped around her.
In one of these reports, Jagger was alleged to have spent an evening at a London club in the company of a journalist, during which he openly discussed his drug-taking and invited others back to his flat "for a smoke". When the report was published, it became obvious that the hapless journalist had mistaken Brian Jones for Jagger – whereupon the latter promptly sued the paper News of the World for defamation.
However this legal action was stymied by his and Richards' subsequent arrest. Despite Jagger claiming that the pills allegedly found in his possession had been prescribed to him, both were found guilty.
The severity of the sentences handed down (imprisonment with hard labour) caused a major public outcry. In it, Rees-Mogg asserted that it was Jagger's and Richards' celebrity that made them targets, and that their sentences for first offences were harsher than "any purely anonymous young man" would have received.
It was during this period that Jagger took over as the effective leader of The Rolling Stones, as founder Brian Jones became more and more incapacitated by his spiralling drug use.
International success
After the band's acrimonious split with their second manager, Allen B. Klein, Jagger took control of their business affairs and has managed them ever since in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Prince Rupert von Löwenstein. The release of their 2005 album "A Bigger Bang" included the song "Sweet Neo Con" in which Jagger's lyrics openly attack the presidency of George W. In February 2006, they appeared during the Super Bowl broadcast, and Jagger was asked to omit words that had sexual connotations from two songs which would be heard by a vast family audience. Jagger has also signed on to appear regularly in a television sitcom based on the theme of a small group of inept thieves who want to rob him.
Stage presence and mannerisms
His stage presence is largely unimitated.
His interaction with and acknowledgement of the other members of the Rolling Stones is usually limited.
During concerts, items such as clothing that are thrown onto the stage by members of the audience are usually kicked off.
Criticism and controversy
Jagger has come under fire throughout most his career but, ironically, the majority has come from music industry insiders and fans, as opposed to opponents of rock and roll.
The most damning contention is related to the Stones' Altamont Free Concert at Altamont Speedway in California.
It was rumoured that the Stones, and Jagger in particular, not only did not try to stop the violence, but encouraged it, by singing "Sympathy for the Devil" while Hunter died. Other rumours swirled that Jagger, despite his blues-based band and songs such as "Brown Sugar", was racist and did not want a black fan at his concert. concert tapes clearly show Jagger trying to calm the audience and end the violence, and Jagger has been a vocal anti-racist.
Private life and public image
Relationships
Mick Jagger has become well known over the years for his high profile and often infamous relationships, such as the one with singer/actress Marianne Faithfull in the mid-60s.
As well as having several official and public relationships, Jagger has been linked to Sophie Dahl, Carly Simon, Uma Thurman, Helmut Berger, and Angela Bowie. Mick Jagger's first child was born when he was 27. The mother, fellow singer Marsha Hunt, gave birth to daughter Karis Jagger on November 4, 1970. The couple were not married and did not remain together for long after the birth as Jagger became acquainted with activist Bianca Moreno de Macias.
In May 1971, Jagger married de Macias, later known as Bianca Jagger. Bianca, born in Managua, Nicaragua, in 1945, was a social and political activist who had studied political science and French Literature, and was virtually unknown before her marriage to Jagger. Later that same year, Bianca gave birth to her first child and Jagger's second. Jade Jagger, born on October 21, 1971, lived with her parents in London. With Bianca, Jagger entered the world of high international celebrity, as evidenced by the jet set hangers-on to their 1972 American Tour and afterwards.
After he separated from Bianca Jagger, Jagger was rumored to be having an affair with Texan supermodel Jerry Hall in the early 1980s. These rumours were confirmed in 1984 when Hall gave birth to the couple's first child - Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger. After this, Hall became Jagger's companion and Ferry wrote the song "Cry, Cry, Cry" about her. Partners Hall and Jagger then had their second child together, James Leroy Augustin Jagger in 1985. It was also this year that Jagger famously claimed that marrying Hall would give him 'claustrophobia'. Nevertheless, Jagger and Hall soon after had a third child together - Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger. Jerry Hall separated from Mick Jagger in 1999 after model Luciana Gimenez claimed she was pregnant with Jagger's child. Luciana and Jagger's son Lucas Jagger was born in 1999.
While attempting to divorce Mick Jagger, it was found that Jerry Hall had never actually been married to Jagger at all. To this day, Hall has maintained Mick Jagger is a good father and friend of hers. After their divorce, Jagger did not continue a relationship with Gimenez, but he did continue to support her and see his son.
In more recent years, Jagger has been touring the world and producing albums - solo and with the Rolling Stones.
You're So Vain
Jagger dated singer and songwriter Carly Simon in the late 1960s. Since Simon was newly married, many suspected it was about either Warren Beatty, Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson or Mick Jagger, probably only because his voice can so clearly be heard singing harmony on the song. Jagger has never commented on the song and Simon has never clarified the famous rumour. She has denied it being all four on different occasions but also hinted it being Beatty and Jagger. It was assumed the song was not about Jagger when Carly Simon joined Janet Jackson in 2000 for a remix of the song called "Son Of a Gun," which sampled "You're So Vain".
David Bowie rumor
In 1990, five years after David Bowie and Mick Jagger covered the hit song "Dancing In the Streets", Bowie's ex-wfe Angela claimed on The Joan Rivers Show that she had caught the two men sleeping together.
After the claim, both David Bowie and his lawyers denied the rumor in an official statement. Jagger dismissed the rumour as "complete rubbish".
Knighthood
At age 60, despite having spent most of his life an icon of rock rebelliousness, Mick Jagger was knighted on 12 December 2003, for his "services to popular music".
The lack of fuss over his knighthood marked a shift in British attitudes since 1965, when some outraged dignitaries returned their medals in protest after the Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Rolling Stone Keith Richards dissented and said: "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment... I told Mick, it's a fucking paltry honour."
Jagger laughed off the criticism from Richards. "I think he would probably like to get the same honor himself", Jagger said. Keith likes to make a fuss."
The announcement of Jagger's honor elicited a couple of angry letters to The Daily Telegraph. A Canadian woman whose husband, mother and grandfather all received honors wrote: "By giving a knighthood to a rogue like Mick Jagger, the prime minister has denigrated all the worthy recipients of honors from Her Majesty the Queen."
Jagger sported a designer suit with leather lapels and black suede and leather sneakers for the formal investiture.
"I don't think the establishment as we knew it exists any more", he told reporters. "Honors are very nice, as long as you don't take it all too seriously".
Jagger came to the ceremony with his 90-year-old father Joe — who decades earlier chided his son's passion for "jungle music" — and daughters Karis, 32, and Elizabeth, 19.
Jagger's father, Joe, died on 11 November 2006 after suffering from pneumonia. His death, at the age of 93, caused Mick Jagger to depart the second leg of the North American A Bigger Bang Tour for the funeral.
Religion
Mick Jagger has sung about religious concepts over the years with the Rolling Stones ("Sympathy for the Devil, Blinded by Rainbows, Saint of Me") and in solo projects. In 1999, Jagger joined the Kabbalah religion and Hollywood Centre with wife Jerry Hall.
Jagger and Hall later lost interest in the church. When asked whether he'd wanted to play, Jagger replied "not really". Jagger is reported to be related to Joseph Jagger, the engineer who in 1875 used his knowledge of the quirks of the roulette wheels at a Monte Carlo casino to win the equivalent of over $4 million and fame as "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" In 1972, a paleontologist named a new fossil snail Anomphalus jaggerius, and in 1995, a pair of paleontologists, Adrain & Mick Jagger is renowned for his prominent lips, a feature which The Rolling Stones have frequently used on artwork and promotional material. The British satire programme Spitting Image had a Mick Jagger puppet. In 1995 Mick Jagger was elected Honorary President of the students union of the college he dropped out of - the LSE Students Union, narrowly beating a joint nomination for Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat with Mother Teresa in third position. Mick Jagger) "State Of Shock" (June 1984) #14 UK; Mick Jagger) "Just Another Night" (February 1985) #32 UK; #39 US [US Mainstream Rock #7] "Throwaway" (November 1987) #67 US [US Mainstream Rock #7] "Say You Will" (December 1987) [US Mainstream Rock #39] "Sweet Thing" (January 1993) #24 UK; #84 US [US Mainstream Rock #34] "Wired All Night" (March 1993) [US Mainstream Rock #3] "Don't Tear Me Up" (April 1993) #86 UK [US Mainstream Rock #1] "God Gave Me Everything" (October 2001) [US Mainstream Rock #24] "Visions Of Paradise" (March 2002) #43 UK "Old Habits Die Hard" (October 2004) (Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart) #45 UK
Filmography
Jagger has appeared in the following movies:
Performance (1970) Ned Kelly (1970) Umano non umano (1972) Wings of Ash: Pilot for a dramatisation of the life of Antonin Artaud (1978) Running Out of Luck (1987) Freejack (1992) Bent (1997) Mein liebster Feind (aka My Best Fiend) - with Klaus Kinski (1999) Enigma (2001) The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)In 1995, Mick Jagger founded "Jagged Films" with a mission to develop and produce feature films that encompassed a wide spectrum of topics and genres. Jagged Films was primarily directed towards the broader international markets.
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