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Other InformationAwardsBest Original Song Golden Globes [2005] DiscographyAlbumsThe Very Best of Mick Jagger Compilation [2007] (# of tracks: 17) Goddess in the Doorway Album [2001] (# of tracks: 12) Wandering Spirit Album [1993] (# of tracks: 14) Primitive Cool Album [1987] (# of tracks: 10) She`s The Boss Album [1985] (# of tracks: 9) Flowers Album [1967] Aftermath Album [1966] (# of tracks: 14) BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS) Compilation [1966] December`s Children (And Everybody`s) Album [1965] Out Of Our Heads Album [1965] The Rolling Stones No. 2 Album [1965] The Rolling Stones, Now! Album [1965] 12 X 5 Album [1964] England`s Newest Hitmakers, The Rolling Stones Album [1964] (# of tracks: 12) Between the Buttons Literature/PublicityPortrayed InStoned [2005] |
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Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. Jagger was born into a middle-class family at Livingstone Hospital, East Hill, Dartford, Kent, England. He is best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones.
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BiographyDistinctive FeaturesLipsFriends and FamilyEva Jagger [Mother] :: Joe Jagger [Father] :: Chris Jagger [Brother]Trivia and QuotesQuotes OK, that was a very big break, the `60s thing. But it was winding up from the days of Elvis. The Elvis period was super-rebellious. Because that kind of music was much more shocking than the music of the Beatles - the early Beatles... The sexuality of the early Elvis years was much more shocking to a straight audience than the Beatles` I Want to Hold Your Hand... The wild men - Elvis, Jerry Lee - they were much more scary. So when we`re talking about any `60s break, you have to take that into account. They`d already made this sexual charge.
I`m not on anyone`s side. There is no side that has an absolute answer. That`s the trouble with politics. You might say, The Republican take on the Middle East is incorrect. The Democratic policy wasn`t that brilliant, either. If we were bored to death, honestly I don`t think we would do it. We do enjoy ourselves doing it. Everyone has been saying, `How come they can enjoy themselves? They should be bored to death doing this.` We`re still having a lot of fun.
Keith and I have a very complicated relationship. I don`t pretend to understand it. I find it quite tricky. He is a very inward person and he was always a very quiet and meditative type of person, so to bring out what he really wants to say is, I think, quite a problem for him sometimes. I`m a very outgoing person and very gregarious. Keith isn`t, really, although he`s learned to be somewhat more gregarious than he used to be. I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy. I`ve always been spiritual. I wish it had been developed in some other way, but I think in our culture it rarely is. This is as far as we get. I`m not in love with things at the moment. I was never crazy about Nirvana - too angst-ridden for me. I like Pearl Jam. I prefer them to a lot of other bands. There`s a lot of angst in a lot of it, which is one of the great things to tap into. But I`m not a fan of moroseness. We[Keith and Mick] have a very good relationship at the moment. But it`s a different relationship to what we had when we were 5 and different to what we had when we were 20 and a different relationship than when we were 30. We see each other every day, talk to each other every day, play every day. But it`s not the same as when we were 20 and shared rooms. It would be nice to have another shot. Instead of me being a rock singer, I could have done something else. You hope you`ve done something right, you`ve spent an awful long time on it, so you better be bloody right. Did you waste a lot of time? Yes, you`ve wasted a lot of time. Did you use your intellectual and physical gifts? Yes and no. Because I don`t think rock and roll is as intellectually taxing as other things. It`s not particularly challenging. So you get intellectually lazy. I don`t think anyone is ever satisfied with what they`ve done.
I think it`s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don`t talk about. That`s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits... It`s wearing. You`re on all the time. As much as I love talking to you today, I`d rather be having one day where I don`t have to think about me. With all this attention, you become a child. It`s awful to be the center of attention. You can`t talk about anything apart from your own experience, your own dopey life. I`d rather do something that can get me out of the center of attention. It`s very dangerous. But there`s no way, really, to avoid that. There`s not a lot in rock that is new. It`s the same kind of chord sequences and the same kind of rhythm references and the same recycling of subject matter. But I don`t think it`s a problem. I mean, traditional musical forms like folk music in three chords or blues are endearing to Americans. They find some comfort in them. It`s hard to remember just what that period[the sixties] was like, but I can assure you it was extremely different from now. There was attitude, things you take for granted now they wouldn`t then: social values, the way people mix, racial segregation, sexual segregation and orientation, the opportunities people would or wouldn`t have, class and money. And the list goes on. The `50s were the beginnings of a consumer revolution. A few books like Absolute Beginners give a reasonably accurate flavor of the period if you weren`t there or can`t quite remember; I was very young. I`m totally anti-nostalgia; I never listen to old Rolling Stones records.
I`m not really interested in them. They`re funny, sometimes, to hear. So I was in a restaurant one night, a nice one in New York and there was a family at the next table. No one was paying attention to anyone else but then I heard - I couldn`t help it - the kid ask his father something. He wanted to know which band was better, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Well, I don`t know, says the father. Why don`t you ask him?, meaning me. It made me feel like something out of history. Rock and roll is a spent force in that we can`t expect any more from it, either as music or an instrument for social change. It is merely recycling itself and everything is a rehash of something else. I`m not that good a musician to break out of it - it`s all I can do. I`m a dedicated show-business person. I`ll go onstage and do Noel Coward. I mean, I`m just a show-business person, whether it`s playing guitar, piano, acting, singing, dancing. I just chose rock & roll as my career in show business. If I`d been born in 1915, I`d have been a jazz drummer or singer in a jazz band or an actor. I was going back to college for a while, but I never made it. I`m a real dropout. I wanted to do comparative religion and history, but I just couldn`t take three months off and go every day. I found myself having to work, and I`m just too lazy. I need three months off from music, but I can never get them. I enjoy changing personalities. Yeah, honestly I feel I`ve got to be very... chameleon-like just to preserve my own identity... I don`t feel threatened by (the) possible eventuality (of losing touch with myself). I don`t want to have just one front. I feel like I need at least two just to carry on doing what I`m doing comfortably. It`s acting, sure it is... that`s what it obviously comes down to. It just gives me the facility to do practically anything I want, see, and even then the most drastic changes of personlity don`t really affect me `cause I never feel the need to do them that often. It`s all part of being a rock & roll star, after all. It`s kind of limiting using your intellect to write songs like Brown Sugar, isn`t it? The only thing I`m really interested in is comparative religion and ancient history. It`s an overwhelming feeling, the audience. That must be why most of these people never give up performing. Because they just can`t go without that sort of rush. It`s a bit like having an orgasm. Sometimes an orgasm is better than being onstage; sometimes being onstage is better than an orgasm.
I`ll be keeping it up until my body starts to fall apart and that`s a long time off. The Stones might not last for ever but we`ll be going until sometime this side of ever. A knighthood, I`d take, nothing less than a knighthood. But you gotta last a long time to get a knighthood.
It can`t go on forever. The thing that bugs me is that I get treated like The Grandfather of Pop, just like James Brown is regarded as The Grandfather of Soul - and I do get treated like that. Now, I`m only three years older than David Bowie. Or is it two? I don`t know why we`ve kept going. I think really because we were successful. But that`s sort of begging the question. What`s success to bourgeois people anyway? Success to them is an endless succession of marriage and the monotony of suburban cars. That`s what they think success is. I didn`t want to please my parents anyway. I think a lot of young people have started something and we`re never going to finish it. I think maybe kids went too far in their faith in it. They expected it to be everything, to express all they feel and do. I don`t think I shall live to a very old age anyway. I`ve always had that feeling, but if you can stop your body falling apart you`ve won half the battle. I believe in that adage, You are what you eat. If you eat a colossal amount of potatoes, you end up looking like one. All lumpy and knobbly-kneed. I`m not a vegetarian or anything, but I prefer fish to meat and I don`t drink milk or eat a lot of starchy foods. In the year 2000, no one will be arrested for drugs and those sort of things. It will be laughable, just like it would be laughable if people were still hanged for stealing sheep. These things have to be changed, but it takes maniacs obsessed with individual microcosmic issues to bring it about. I could get ever so obsessed about the drugs thing, and if I really worked hard at it, I might perhaps speed up the process of reform by perhaps ten years or five years or perhaps only six months. But I don`t feel that it`s important enough. (W)e shall never tour America again. It is very hard work and one bring-down after another. Every place you go there is a barrage of criticism and eventually you just start lashing out. We belong to a generation that`s separate from any other. We believe in what we`re doing. We`re happy to have the kids screaming for us. It gets me down to think that a lot of them will one day disappear into the drab nest. I hope all of them won`t. If only the whole world could stay young. We`re on the road so much that we don`t depend on girlfriends for relationships. It`s not a barrier. Most men don`t depend on their girlfriends for relationships. Besides, women never get on. If that sounds like an anti-feminist statement I`m sorry, but it`s a product of practical experience. I`m dreading (old age). There are very few old people who are happy. When their minds stop thinking about the present and the future and stay wrapped in the past, they are awfully dull. I don`t want old dears saying, How old do you think I am? 48? No, I`m 78 and I`ve got all your records! Then I think it`s time they should grow up! Vietnam has changed America. It has divided and made people think. There`s a lot of opposition - much more than you think, because all the opposition is laughed at in American magazines. It`s made to look ridiculous. But there is real opposition. Before, Americans used to accept everything, my country right or wrong. But now a lot of people are saying my country should be right, not wrong. (I get inspiration from t)hings that are happening around me - everyday life as I see it. People say I`m always singing about pills and breakdowns, therefore I must be an addict - this is ridiculous. Some people are so narrow-minded they won`t admit to themselves that this really does happen to other people beside pop stars. Everybody has their own moral code. I conduct myself as I think fit. We have changed a bit since we got famous. I mean, how would you like to sing the same seven numbers every night? I may not be much of a singer, but there is no artistry in that. Still, we do have fun as well. The Beatles were so big that it`s hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn`t a real comparison with anyone now. I want to play places that are uncharted rock & roll territory. Much as I love America, a lot of America we never played in - we`ve never played Wichita. But I`d like to go to Asia, I`d like to go to India, I`d like to play the Middle East. I`d like to play more in Eastern Europe. All those places, there is zero money, you know, but you are hoping to break even. Which is a concept most people who run rock & roll tours can`t grasp, because what`s the point of spending a year touring and earning no money when you could be back in America, earning money. But that`s what I would like to do. I don`t really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I`m a creative artist. All I know from business I`ve picked up along the way. I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, kind of, but how boring is that? I think I`m a pretty good father. I have a nice affinity with children, not just my own. I like taking bunches of kids out for the day. Kids keep you young and they keep you laughing. People get very blasé about their big hit. Satisfaction was the song that really made the Rolling Stones, changed us from just another band into a huge, monster band. You always need one song. We weren`t American, and America was a big thing and we always wanted to make it here. It was very impressive the way that song and the popularity of the band became a worldwide thing. We knew (the Beatles) by then and we were rehearsing and Andrew brought Paul and John down to the rehearsal. They said they had this tune, they were really hustlers then. I mean the way they used to hustle tunes was great: Hey Mick, we`ve got this great song. So they played I Wanna Be Your Man and we thought it sounded pretty commercial, which is what we were looking for, so we did it like Elmore James or something. I haven`t heard it for ages but it must be pretty freaky `cause nobody really produced it... It was completely crackers, but it was a hit and sounded great onstage. A lot of children, like in the United States, don`t remember the real horror of (World War II), because they never had to, as they do in Europe and Russia and so on. I`m not saying America didn`t have a terrible experience, but it never came home to them that way. You had rationing and shortages, and people got killed and coffins came home. But you didn`t have the experience of the block opposite being destroyed when you got up in the morning. I was always a singer. I always sang as a child. I was one of those kids who just liked to sing. Some children sing in choirs; others like to show off in front of the mirror. I was in the church choir and I also loved listening to singers onthe radio - the BBC or Radio Luxembourg - or watching them on TV and in the movies. I was thinking about this the other day, and I don`t really think I was suited to heavy drug behavior, to be perfectly honest. But I don`t mind talking about it. It`s hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That`s what I find really hard. And I didn`t really consider it. You know, it was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life. It wasn`t really anything special. It was just a bit of a bore, really. Everyone took drugs the whole time, and you were out of it the whole time. It wasn`t a special event. I`m very country-influenced, from quite young. Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, so on. I heard those people, really, before I heard blues. Even Jim Reeves, Everly Brothers, and so on. Those kind of pop-country performers are very popular in England. Used to come along and play a lot on TV and their records would be around. New York (in 1964 and `65) was wonderful and so on, and L.A. was also kind of interesting. But outside of that we found it the most repressive society, very prejudiced in every way. There was still segregation. And the attitudes were fantastically old-fashioned. Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness. It`s changed fantastically over the last 30 years. But so has everything else. Satanic Majesties had interesting things on it, but I don`t think any of the songs are very good. It`s a bit like Between The Buttons. It`s a sound experience, really, rather than a song experience. There`s 2 good songs on it: She`s A Rainbow, and 2000 Light Years from Home. The rest of them are nonsense... I think we were just taking too much acid. We were just getting carried away, just thinking anything you did was fun and everyone should listen to it. The whole thing we were on acid. There was one song that was particularly chosen as an anti-women thing, which was Under My Thumb. And actually Under My Thumb - how does it go... (sings) Under my thumb, there`s a girl who once had ME down. So the whole idea was that she - that I was under HER, she was kicking ME around. So the whole idea is absurd, all I did was turn the tables around. So women took that to be... against femininity where in reality it was... trying to "get back", you know, against being a "repressed male". We really were vicious. In the beginning if anyone was the slightest bit flaky in a recording sesion, they were really in for a hard time. When you`re young you put the knife in. Brian couldn`t even be botherered turning up for sessions. There`s only so much you can do.Trivia Began a secret affair with Jerry Hall while she was still engaged to Bryan Ferry (1976). Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with fellow The Rolling Stones member Keith Richards (1993). Lives in Los Angeles. Was romantically linked to former model Carla Bruni, who has been First Lady of France since 2008. Attended Dartford Grammar School during from the mid to late 1950s, was said to have been president of the school photographic society so that he could be in possession of a set of keys to the school dark room. Ideal place to take girls during school dances!. Father of Karis Jagger, Jade Jagger, Gabriel Jagger, Jim Jagger, Georgia Jagger, Elizabeth Jagger and Lucas Maurice Jagger. Has had nine US number one singles with The Rolling Stones; "(I Can`t Get No) 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 father, Joe Jagger, died of pneumonia at the age of 93 (11 November 2006). In Knebworth, The Rolling Stones played to their single largest paying audience ever: 200,000 people attended the concert - however, they have played to larger audiences in free concerts (21 August 1976). Is a big fan of The Beach Boys. Is the lead singer and Harmonica player of The Rolling Stones. In 1985 he signed a short-lived solo deal and shortly afterwards performed with Tina Turner at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia. The North American leg of The Rolling Stones`s 1994 Voodoo Lounge Tour was the most financially successful tour in the history of mankind. The Rolling Stones were voted the 4th Greatest Rock & Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone. Was a frequent guest at the infamous Studio 54. 11 May 2003: Voted the 83rd Worst Briton in Channel Four`s poll of the 100 Worst Britons. As a member of The Rolling Stones, he performed for over 500,000 people on July 30th, 2003 at Downsview Park in Toronto. Along with The Rolling Stones were AC/DC, Justin Timberlake, The Guess Who, Rush, The Flaming Lips, Sam Roberts, etc. The concert was a benefit for the victims of SARS and to help out the Toronto economy. This was the biggest crowd The Rolling Stones have ever played for. Born to Basil Fanshawe Jagger (6 April 1913-11 November 2006), called Joe, a teacher, and his Australian wife Eva Ensley Mary Scutts (13 April 1913-18 May 2000), he grew up in a middle-class family. Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Rolling Stones (1989). He was invited to the famous orchestral session for "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles. His brother, Chris Jagger, is also a musician. His personal fortune is an estimated GBP 215 million. Sang as a guest vocalist on The Jacksons`s hit song "State of Shock" (1984). The lyrics to the song "Wild Horses" are reported to have been written about Marianne Faithfull, who miscarried her and Jagger`s child. It`s also been said that Gram Parsons was the inspiration for that song. Was knighted by Prince Charles (12 December 2003). Attended London School of Economics. 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 in the role as Alex. Grandfather of Assisi, born July 1992, and Amba Jagger, born in 1996, children of his daughter Jade Jagger. Jerry Hall gave birth to his sixth child, Gabriel Jagger on 12 August 1997. Model Luciana Gimenez gave birth to his seventh child Lucas Maurice Morad Jagger in spring 1999. Sang back-up vocals on the Carly Simon hit "You`re So Vain." Jagger is more noticeable toward the end of the song when his accent comes through. Spouse: Jerry Hall (21 November 1990 - 13 August 1999) (annulled) 4 children
Bianca Jagger (12 May 1971 - 1980) (divorced) 1 child
Supposedly tried out for the role of Dr. Frank N` Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). When he took his son to the school that he went to all the teachers were excited to see him but the kids just said "`Ere. It`s that man that used to be in The Beatles." Wrote the song "Angie" to David Bowie`s ex-wife Angela Bowie after their break-up. They had a relationship while Angie and David were still married (this statement is false according to Angie Bowie in her book "Backstage Passes". She states that the song "Angie" was probably not about her),. founder of Jagged Films | ||
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