Comprehensive information and links about Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger See rationale on the talk page, or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. (born 26 July 1943Mick Jagger is an English rock musician, actor, writer, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is most famous for being the lead singer and co-founder (with guitarist Brian Jones) of the British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. He is also the songwriting partner of Stones guitarist Keith Richards, and the pair have composed almost all the Rolling Stones' original material, as well as numerous songs for other artists including "As Tears Go By" (for Marianne Faithfull) and "Out Of Time" (for Chris Farlowe).

Early years

Jagger went to college at the London School of Economics for at nearly two years. He did not graduate, choosing instead to drop out and pursue his musical career. As a student, he frequented a London club called the Firehouse. At the age of 19, Jagger began performing as a singer. He frequented clubs such as the Cavern Club, and admired the same type of blues musicians that Brian Jones and Keith Richards favored. In fact, Elmore James was one of the band's early favorites, as well as anything from the Chess Records collection in Chicago.

While Jagger knew 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. The group, combined with Jones, Bill Wyman, Ian Stewart, and Charlie Watts formed the Rolling Stones, based on the Muddy Waters tune that mentioned a "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 until his death in 1985.

Drug controversy

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 Faithfull was found naked except for a fur rug wrapped around her. The raid was later revealed to have been prompted by a tip-off to the London Drug Squad by journalists working for the , which at the time was running a series of lurid reports about the alleged use of illegal drugs by British pop stars.

In one of these reports, Jagger was alleged to have spent an evening at a London club in the company of a Murdoch 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 -- who promptly sued for defamation.

But this legal action was stymied by his and Richards' subsequent arrest. The trial made front-page news around the world. 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 huge public outcry. It was also the subject of the famous leader by William Rees-Mogg, editor of . Titled "Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel," Rees-Mogg asserted that it was Jagger's and Richards' celebrity that made them targets, and that their sentences for first offences were more harsh than what "any purely anonymous young man" would have received. Their convictions were overturned on appeal, and they subsequently were released, though the other person arrested with them, noted London art dealer Robert Fraser, served six months.

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. Jones left the band in early 1969 and accidentally drowned in his swimming pool only weeks later (though rumours persist that he was murdered).

In May 1971 he married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, and she gave birth to their daughter, Jade Jagger, later that same year, the same year the band released , one of their most popular albums. The couple divorced in 1979.

Between 1990-1999, he was married to modelTV hostess Jerry Hall, and they had four more children, Elizabeth Scarlett, Georgia May Ayeesha, Gabriel Luke Beauregard and James Leroy Augustine Jagger.

A brief affair with Brazilian model and TV presenter Luciana Gimenez resulted in the birth of Lucas Jagger (1999).

L'Wren Scott, born Luann Bambrough, is a former model and now a fashion stylist who lives in Hollywood. She is Mick's current "main person of interest" for the past few years.

Pictures of the various wives and children (as well as Mick Jagger arriving at the Grammy Awards on 16 January, 2005 with L'Wren Scott) can be seen at this link [1]

Mick Jagger was knighted on 12 December 2003, for his "services to popular music" [2]. His fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards was critical as usual. "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, 'It's a fucking paltry honour.'" [3]

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. 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" saw them embark on a tour of the USA with a playlist including "Sweet Neo Con" in which Jagger's lyrics openly attack the presidency of George W. Bush. In February 2006 they appeared during the Super Bowl broadcast when he was asked to omit obscenities from two songs which would be heard by a vast family audience. He did not comply with this request, but his microphone was momentarily dipped. 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. The tour continues in South America moving to Europe in May.

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.