76 Facts About Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger was born on 26 July 1943 and is an English singer and songwriter who has achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and one of the founder members of the rock band the Rolling Stones.

Mick Jagger's career has spanned over six decades, and he has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock music.

Mick Jagger gained press notoriety for his romantic involvements and illicit drug use, and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure.

Mick Jagger studied at the London School of Economics before abandoning his studies to join the Rolling Stones.

Mick Jagger has written most of the Rolling Stones' songs together with Richards, and they continue to collaborate musically.

Mick Jagger began a solo recording career in 1985, releasing his first album, She's the Boss, and joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy in 2009.

Relationships with the Stones' members, particularly Richards, deteriorated during the 1980s, but Mick Jagger has always found more success with the band than with his solo and side projects.

Mick Jagger was married to Bianca Perez-Mora Macias from 1971 to 1978, and has had several other relationships, resulting in eight children with five women.

In 1989, Mick Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones in 2004.

Mick Jagger's father, Basil Fanshawe "Joe" Jagger, a former gymnast, was a physical education teacher who helped popularise basketball in Britain; his grandfather David Ernest Jagger was a teacher.

Mick Jagger's mother, Eva Ensley Mary, born in Sydney, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party.

In September 1950, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School, Dartford, before the Mick Jagger family's 1954 move to Wilmington, Kent.

Mick Jagger met Richards again on 17 October 1961 on platform two of Dartford railway station.

The Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Mick Jagger was carrying revealed a shared interest in rhythm and blues.

Mick Jagger left school in 1961 after passing seven O-levels and two A-levels.

Mick Jagger had seriously considered becoming either a journalist or a politician, comparing the latter to a pop star.

Jones, Richards, and Mick Jagger began to jam with the group, Mick Jagger eventually becoming the featured singer.

Mick Jagger told Stephen Schiff in a 1992 Vanity Fair profile:.

Two days after the article was published Mick Jagger filed a writ for libel against the News of the World.

Mick Jagger was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for possession of four over-the-counter pep pills he had purchased in Italy and Richards was sentenced to one year in prison for allowing cannabis to be smoked on his property.

Mick Jagger said Jones was "not psychologically suited to this way of life".

At the beginning of the show, Mick Jagger read an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Adonais, an elegy written on the death of John Keats, after which they released thousands of butterflies in Jones' memory before starting the show with a song by Johnny Winter, "I'm Yours and I'm Hers".

In 1970, Mick Jagger bought Stargroves, a manor house and estate near East Woodhay in Hampshire.

Mick Jagger has managed the group ever since, with Prince Rupert Loewenstein acting as business adviser and financial manager from 1968 until 2007.

Mick Jagger started writing and recording material for his first solo album She's the Boss.

Mick Jagger performed without the Stones for the Live Aid multi-venue charity concert in 1985.

Mick Jagger performed at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium, including a duet with Tina Turner of "It's Only Rock and Roll" and a cover of "Dancing in the Street" with David Bowie, who was performing at Wembley Stadium, London.

When Richards got himself off heroin and became more present in decision making, Mick Jagger was not used to Richards' presence and did not like his authority diminished.

Mick Jagger released his second solo album, Primitive Cool, in 1987.

Mick Jagger produced the songs "Glamour Boys" and "Which Way to America" on Living Colour's album Vivid in 1988.

Ron Wood believes the modest sales of Jagger's Primitive Cool "surprised" Mick and made him "realize the strength of the band".

Mick Jagger acquired Rick Rubin as co-producer in January 1992 for what would become his third solo album, Wandering Spirit.

On Wandering Spirit, Mick Jagger kept celebrity guests to a minimum, having only Lenny Kravitz as a vocalist on his cover of Bill Withers' "Use Me" and bassist Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers on three separate tracks.

Mick Jagger signed with Atlantic Records, which had signed the Stones in the 1970s, to distribute the record.

Mick Jagger celebrated the Rolling Stones' 40th anniversary by touring with the band on the year-long Licks Tour, supporting their commercially successful career retrospective Forty Licks double album.

The group started with a phone call Mick Jagger received from Stewart.

When Mick Jagger held out a mic to him, Obama twice sang the line "Come on, baby don't you want to go" of the blues cover "Sweet Home Chicago", the blues anthem of Obama's hometown.

In 2013, Mick Jagger teamed up with his brother Chris Mick Jagger for two new duets on his album Concertina Jack, released to mark the 40th anniversary of his debut album.

In March 2019, a Rolling Stones tour of the US and Canada from April to June had to be postponed as Mick Jagger needed a transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

On 23 April, Mick Jagger announced through his Facebook page the release of the single "Living in a Ghost Town", a new Rolling Stones single recorded in London and Los Angeles in 2019 and finished in isolation, a song that the band "thought would resonate through the times we're living in" and their first release of original material since 2012.

Mick Jagger composed an improvised soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's film Invocation of My Demon Brother on the Moog synthesiser in 1969.

Mick Jagger appeared as himself in the Rutles' film All You Need Is Cash and was cast as Wilbur, a main character in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, in the late 1970s.

Mick Jagger developed a reputation for playing the heavy later in his acting career in films including Freejack, Bent, and The Man From Elysian Fields.

In 1991, Mick Jagger founded Jagged Films with Victoria Pearman and, in 1995, founded the film production company Lip Service with Steve Tisch.

That same year, Jagged Films produced a documentary about Jagger entitled Being Mick.

Mick Jagger was a co-producer of, and guest-starred in the first episode of the short-lived American comedy television series The Knights of Prosperity.

Mick Jagger co-produced the James Brown biopic Get On Up.

Alongside Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen and Terence Winter, Mick Jagger co-created and executive produced the period drama series Vinyl, which starred Bobby Cannavale and aired for one season on HBO before its cancellation.

Mick Jagger portrays an English art dealer-collector and patron in Giuseppe Capotondi's thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy.

Mick Jagger has been married and divorced once, and has had other relationships, resulting in eight children with five women.

Mick Jagger has, as of 2021, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Mick Jagger met the American singer Marsha Hunt in 1969 and, though she was married, the pair had a relationship.

When it ended in June 1970, Hunt was pregnant with Mick Jagger's first child, Karis Hunt Mick Jagger, who was born on 4 November 1970.

In late 1977, Mick Jagger began dating American model Jerry Hall.

Mick Jagger was in a relationship with fashion designer L'Wren Scott from 2001 until her suicide in 2014.

Mick Jagger set up the L'Wren Scott scholarship at London's Central Saint Martins College.

Since Scott died in 2014, Mick Jagger has been in a relationship with American ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick.

Mick Jagger was 73 when Hamrick gave birth to their son Deveraux Octavian Basil Mick Jagger in 2016.

Mick Jagger's friends said that the show going on was "what Joe would have wanted".

Mick Jagger called his father the "greatest influence" in his life.

An avid cricket fan, Mick Jagger founded Jagged Internetworks to cover the sport.

Mick Jagger keenly follows the England national football team, and has regularly attended FIFA World Cup games.

Mick Jagger was honoured with a knighthood for services to popular music in the Queen's 2002 Birthday Honours, and on 12 December 2003 he received the accolade from The Prince of Wales.

Mick Jagger stated that although the award did not have significant meaning for him, he was "touched" by the significance that it held for his father, saying that his father "was very proud".

One of his biographers, Christopher Andersen, describes him as "one of the dominant cultural figures of our time," adding that Mick Jagger was "the story of a generation".

Mick Jagger was reported to be a contender for the anonymous subject of Carly Simon's 1972 hit song "You're So Vain", on which he sings backing vocals.

In 2010, a retrospective exhibition of portraits of Mick Jagger was presented at the festival Rencontres d'Arles, in France.

Mick Jagger's relationships served as the inspiration for the theatrical show parody "Jumpin' Jack", written by Lyle Victor Albert.

Maroon 5's song "Moves like Mick Jagger" is about Mick Jagger, who acknowledged the song in an interview, calling the concept "very flattering".

In more recent decades, Mick Jagger has been seen as a "poster boy" for healthy living and, as of 2006, was "said to run 12 km a day, to kick-box, lift weights, cycle, and practise ballet and yoga"; he has his own personal trainer.

Mick Jagger's voice has been described as a powerful expressive tool for communicating feelings to his audience, and expressing an alternative vision of society.

Over time, Mick Jagger has developed into the template for rock frontmen and, with the help of the Stones, has, in the words of the Telegraph, "changed music" through his contributions to it as a pioneer of the modern music industry.

Mick Jagger's vocals are stunning, flawless in their own kind of perfection.

Mick Jagger has been known to seek out newcomer artists to the music industry and advise them.

The Telegraph has called Mick Jagger "the Rolling Stone who changed music".

Mick Jagger was slated to appear in the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo and some scenes were shot with him, but he had to leave for a Rolling Stones tour and his character was eliminated.