Mick Jagger
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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.
Early lifeJagger 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[1] (13 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), an Australian immigrant of Polish ancestry 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."[citation needed] 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. The Rolling StonesWith 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.[2] 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, Rupert 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 included the song "Sweet Neo Con" in which Jagger's lyrics openly attack the presidency of George W. Bush. 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.[3] 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."[4] His personal fortune is an estimated £215m.[5] Acting and film productionJagger also has an acting career, most notably in Nicolas Roeg's Performance (1968) and as Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970). He composed an improvised soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's film "Invocation Of My Demon Brother" on the moog synthesizer in 1969. He also appeared in The Rutles spin-off film All You Need Is Cash in 1978. In the early 1980s, Jagger was cast as a main character in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, however numerous delays in the film's notoriously difficult production resulted in him being unable to continue due to schedule conflicts with a band tour; some of the footage of his work is shown in the documentary Burden of Dreams. He developed a reputation for playing the heavy later in his acting career in films including Freejack (1992), Bent (1997), and The Man From Elysian Fields (2002). In 1995, Mick Jagger founded Jagged Films with Victoria Pearman, "to start my own projects instead of just going in other people's and being involved peripherally or doing music".[6] Its first release was the World War II drama Enigma in 2001. That same year, it produced an hour-long documentary on Jagger entitled Being Mick. The program, which first aired on television November 22, coincided beautifully with the release of Goddess in the Doorway.[7] In 2008, the company began work on The Women, an adaptation of the George Cukor film of the same name. It is being directed by Diane English.[8][9] Reviving the 1939 film has met with countless delays, but Jagger's company was credited with obtaining $24 million of much-needed financing to finally begin casting. "'This was much easier in 1939, when all the ladies were under contract," English told Entertainment Weekly, "and they had to take the roles they were told to." The Rolling Stones have been the subjects of numerous documentaries, including Gimme Shelter, which was made as the band was gaining fame in the United States. Martin Scorsese worked with Jagger on Shine A Light, a documentary film featuring the Rolling Stones with footage from the A Bigger Bang Tour during two nights of performances at New York's Beacon Theatre. It screened in Berlin in February 2008.[10][11] Variety's Todd McCarthy said the film "takes full advantage of heavy camera coverage and top-notch sound to create an invigorating musical trip down memory lane, as well as to provoke gentle musings on the wages of aging and the passage of time." And, he predicted the film would fare better once released to video than in its limited theatrical runs.[12] Jagger was a producer of and acted in the short-lived comedy The Knights of Prosperity[13]. The premise was that a group of inept, blue-collar thieves want to get rich quick, so they plot to rob Mick Jagger. In fact, the sitcom's working title was Let's Rob Mick Jagger, which was later renamed. Jagger guest starred in the premiere episode, which aired in 2007 on ABC. Personal lifeJagger is renowned for his high-profile and multiple relationships. He was married in 1971 to Bianca Perez Morena de Macias. They divorced in 1979, on the grounds of his adultery with Jerry Hall. Jagger and Hall married in 1990 in a Hindu beach ceremony. Jagger later contested the validity of the ceremony, and the marriage was annulled in 1999, subsequent to Jagger's affair with and the pregnancy of Luciana Gimenez. He has also been romantically linked to Marianne Faithfull and Carla Bruni. Jagger has seven children with four women.[14] His first child is daughter Karis, by Marsha Hunt.[14] His second is Jade Jagger, by Bianca Jagger.[14] With Jerry Hall he has four children: Elizabeth, James, Georgia May, and Gabriel.[14] His youngest child is Lucas, by Luciana Gimenez.[14]. His most recent romantic liaison was with former model L'Wren Scott.[15] His father died on 11 November 2006 at the age of 93.[16] In 2008 it was revealed that the Hells Angels plotted to murder Jagger in 1969. They were angered by Jagger's refusal to use their services after the deadly Altamont Free Concert. The plot was cancelled after the boat they were to use to access his Long Island home ran into a storm.[17] KnighthoodOn 12 December 2003 Jagger was knighted as Sir Michael Jagger by Charles, Prince of Wales.[18][19] This caused considerable friction between Jagger and bandmate Keith Richards, who was extremely irritated when Jagger accepted the honour. Solo discography
Soundtracks
Singles
FilmographyJagger has appeared in the following movies:
Jagger also appears as the character "Prince Mick" in the independent comic book Cerebus the Aardvark, along with Keith Richards ("Prince Keef"). References
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