MICK JAGGER
Name: Mick Jagger
Birth name: Michael Philip Jagger
Born: 26 July 1943 Dartford, Kent, England
Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is a Golden Globe-winning
English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and
businessman. He is best known as the frontman of the rock band The Rolling
Stones.
Jagger was born into a middle-class family at the Livingstone Hospital, East
Hill, Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (6
April 1913 - 11 November 2006), and his paternal grandfather, David Ernest
Jagger, were both teachers; his mother, Eva Ensley Mary Scutts (13 April 1913
– 18 May 2000), an Australian immigrant to England, was an active member of the
Conservative Party. Jagger was the elder of two sons and was raised to follow in
his father's career path. According to Jagger in the book According to the
Rolling Stones, "I was always a singer. I always sang as a child. I was one of
those kids who just liked to sing. Some kids 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 on the radio - the BBC or Radio Luxemburg - or watching them on TV
and in the movies." Academically successful, he attended
Dartford Grammar School where he passed 3 A-levels, before entering the London
School of Economics on a scholarship. He studied for a degree in accounting and
finance, but attended for less than a year and did not graduate, leaving to
pursue a musical career.
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 had
purchased it. The two, combined with Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Ian Stewart, and
Charlie Watts, formed the Rolling Stones, basing their name on the Muddy Waters
tune "Rollin' Stone." Stewart was dropped from the band for not fitting the
image desired by manager Andrew Loog Oldham, but still toured with the band as a
pianist until his death in 1985. It was Oldham who insisted that Jagger call
himself "Mick" rather than "Mike", a name he continued to use among friends; for
example, John Lennon calls him Michael in the 1968 film The Rolling Stones Rock
and Roll Circus.
With Richards, Jagger would soon form the core songwriting partnership of the
Rolling Stones. Their first composition, "As Tears Go By", was a song written
for Marianne Faithfull, a young singer being promoted by Loog Oldham at the time.
For the Stones, the duo would write "The Last Time", the band's third number one
hit in the UK. The Rolling Stones relied heavily on covered material for their
early chart 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 Lawenstein. Decades
after the band's creation, The Rolling Stones continue to perform and to court
controversy. 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. Bush.
The Stones went on to make their first visit to Puerto Rico, playing to a sell-out
audience of 20,000 at the new Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. Tickets to the
concert were being sold for up to $1,000, more than twice the top published
price of $460. On 8 April 2006, the Stones performed in Shanghai, their first
ever show in mainland China.
On September 26, 2007, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones made $437 million on
their A Bigger Bang Tour to list them in the latest edition of Guinness World
Record. Jagger has refused to say when the band will finally retire, stating
in 2007: "I'm sure the Rolling Stones will do more things and more records and
more tours. We've got no plans to stop any of that really."
Name: Mick Jagger
Birth name: Michael Philip Jagger
Born: 26 July 1943 Dartford, Kent, England
Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is a Golden Globe-winning
English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and
businessman. He is best known as the frontman of the rock band The Rolling
Stones.
Jagger was born into a middle-class family at the Livingstone Hospital, East
Hill, Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (6
April 1913 - 11 November 2006), and his paternal grandfather, David Ernest
Jagger, were both teachers; his mother, Eva Ensley Mary Scutts (13 April 1913
– 18 May 2000), an Australian immigrant to England, was an active member of the
Conservative Party. Jagger was the elder of two sons and was raised to follow in
his father's career path. According to Jagger in the book According to the
Rolling Stones, "I was always a singer. I always sang as a child. I was one of
those kids who just liked to sing. Some kids 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 on the radio - the BBC or Radio Luxemburg - or watching them on TV
and in the movies." Academically successful, he attended
Dartford Grammar School where he passed 3 A-levels, before entering the London
School of Economics on a scholarship. He studied for a degree in accounting and
finance, but attended for less than a year and did not graduate, leaving to
pursue a musical career.
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 had
purchased it. The two, combined with Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Ian Stewart, and
Charlie Watts, formed the Rolling Stones, basing their name on the Muddy Waters
tune "Rollin' Stone." Stewart was dropped from the band for not fitting the
image desired by manager Andrew Loog Oldham, but still toured with the band as a
pianist until his death in 1985. It was Oldham who insisted that Jagger call
himself "Mick" rather than "Mike", a name he continued to use among friends; for
example, John Lennon calls him Michael in the 1968 film The Rolling Stones Rock
and Roll Circus.
With Richards, Jagger would soon form the core songwriting partnership of the
Rolling Stones. Their first composition, "As Tears Go By", was a song written
for Marianne Faithfull, a young singer being promoted by Loog Oldham at the time.
For the Stones, the duo would write "The Last Time", the band's third number one
hit in the UK. The Rolling Stones relied heavily on covered material for their
early chart 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 Lawenstein. Decades
after the band's creation, The Rolling Stones continue to perform and to court
controversy. 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. Bush.
The Stones went on to make their first visit to Puerto Rico, playing to a sell-out
audience of 20,000 at the new Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. Tickets to the
concert were being sold for up to $1,000, more than twice the top published
price of $460. On 8 April 2006, the Stones performed in Shanghai, their first
ever show in mainland China.
On September 26, 2007, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones made $437 million on
their A Bigger Bang Tour to list them in the latest edition of Guinness World
Record. Jagger has refused to say when the band will finally retire, stating
in 2007: "I'm sure the Rolling Stones will do more things and more records and
more tours. We've got no plans to stop any of that really."