Mick Jagger
Michael Phillip Jagger was born on July 26, 1943. His father Joe was a sports instructor and passed his love of sport on to Mick Jagger, who supports Arsenal and Kent cricket club.
Educated at Dartford Grammar School and the LSE, Mick Jagger helped form the Rolling Stones back in 1962. You will find a good timeline of Jagger's life on Jagger's official website.
Mick Jagger is lead singer of the Rolling Stones, of whom, Tom Wolfe wrote, "the Beatles want to hold you hand. The Stones want to burn your town."
Elton John once said:
"Mick Jagger is the perfect rock star. There's nobody more perfect than Jagger. He's rude, he's ugly-attractive, he's brilliant. The Rolling Stones are the perfect rock group."
The Rolling Stones were still touring in 2006, The Guardian reviewed the Rolling Stones concert in Twickenham.
Mick Jagger is well known for his large lips and his facial wrinkles, which he described as laughter lines, to which George Melly responded, "surely nothing could be that funny".
In March 2007, the BBC revealed in a news report, Scorsese and Jagger join forces, that Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese are making The Long Play, a film about two friends and their lives in rock music.
Martin Scorsese's documentary film about The Rolling Stones, Shine A Light, was released in 2008.
Mariella Frostrup's article is an excellent source of information on Mick Jagger.
In March 2008, a BBC radio documentary claimed that Mick Jagger had escaped an assassination attempt by the Hells Angels in 1969.
