Sir Michael Philip Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of the Rolling Stones. Jaggers career has spanned over 50 years, and he has been described as one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll.[2] His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards guitar style, have been the trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, Shes the Boss. In early 2009, he joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy. In 1989 Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones. In 2003 he was knighted for his services to music. 1943–61: early years[edit] Portal icon The Rolling Stones portal Mick Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent, England.[3] His father, Basil Fanshawe Joe Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, of English descent,[4][5] was a hairdresser[6] and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jaggers younger brother, fellow musician Chris Jagger, was born on 19 December 1947.[7] Though brought up to follow his fathers career path, Jagger was always a singer as he stated in According to the Rolling Stones. 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 Luxembourg--or watching them on TV and in the movies.[8] From September 1950, Keith Richards and Jagger (known as Mike to his friends) were classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent. In 1954, Jagger passed the eleven-plus, and went to Dartford Grammar School, which now features the Mick Jagger Centre as part of the school. Jagger and Richards lost contact with each other when they went to different schools, but after a chance encounter in July 1960 they resumed their friendship and discovered that they had both developed a love of rhythm and blues music, which for Jagger had begun with Little Richard.[9] Jagger left school in 1961 after obtaining 7 O-levels and 3 A-levels. Jagger and Richards moved into a flat in Edith Grove in Chelsea, London with a guitarist they had encountered named Brian Jones. While Richards and Jones planned to start their own rhythm and blues group, Jagger continued his business courses at the London School of Economics,[10] and had seriously considered becoming either a journalist or a politician, comparing the latter to a pop star. 1962–present: the Rolling Stones 1960s[edit] In their earliest days; the members played for no money in the interval of Alexis Korners gigs at a basement club opposite Ealing Broadway tube station (subsequently called Ferrys club). At the time, the group had very little equipment and needed to borrow Alexis gear to play. This was before Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager. The groups first appearance under the name the Rollin Stones (after one of their favourite Muddy Waters tunes) was at the Marquee Club, a jazz club, on 12 July 1962. They would later change their name to the Rolling Stones as it seemed more formal. Victor Bockris states that the band members included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart on piano, Dick Taylor on bass and Tony Chapman on drums. However, Richards states in Life, The drummer that night was Mick Avory--not Tony Chapman, as history has mysteriously handed it down...[13] Mick Avory himself has categorically denied on many occasions[14] that he played with the Rollin Stones that night. In fact he only rehearsed twice with them in the Bricklayers Arms pub, before they became known as the Rollin Stones. Some time later, the band went on their first tour in the United Kingdom; this was known as the training ground tour because it was a new experience for all of them.[15] The line-up did not at that time include drummer Charlie Watts and bassist Bill Wyman. By 1963, they were finding their stride as well as popularity. By 1964, two unscientific opinion polls rated them as Britains most popular group, outranking even the Beatles.[10] By autumn 1963, Jagger had left the London School of Economics in favour of his promising musical career with the Rolling Stones. The group continued to mine the works of American rhythm and blues artists such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, but with the strong encouragement of Andrew Loog Oldham, Jagger and Richards soon began to write their own songs. This core songwriting partnership would flourish in time; one of their early compositions, As Tears Go By, was a song written for Marianne Faithfull, a young singer Loog Oldham was promoting at the time.[16] For the Rolling Stones, the duo would write The Last Time, the groups third #1 single in the UK (their first two UK #1 hits had been cover versions) based on This May Be the Last Time, a traditional Negro spiritual song recorded by the Staple Singers in 1955. Another fruit of this collaboration was their first international hit, (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction. It also established the Rolling Stones image as defiant troublemakers in contrast to the Beatles lovable moptop image.[10] Jagger told Stephen Schiff in a 1992 Vanity Fair profile: I wasnt trying to be rebellious in those days; I was just being me. I wasnt trying to push the edge of anything. Im being me and ordinary, the guy from suburbia who sings in this band, but someone older might have thought it was just the most awful racket, the most terrible thing, and where are we going if this is music?... But all those songs we sang were pretty tame, really. People didnt think they were, but I thought they were tame.[17] The group released several successful albums including Decembers Children (And Everybodys), Aftermath, and Between the Buttons, but in their personal lives and behaviour were brought into question. In 1967, Jagger and Richards were arrested on drug charges and were given unusually harsh sentences: Jagger was sentenced to three months imprisonment for possession of four over-the-counter pep pills he had purchased in Italy. On appeal, Richards sentence was overturned and Jaggers was amended to a conditional discharge (he ended up spending one night inside Brixton Prison)[18] after an article appeared in the Times, written by its traditionally conservative editor William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg,[19] but the Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next decade. Around the same time, internal struggles about the direction of the group had begun to surface. 1970s[edit] In 1970, Jagger bought Stargroves, a manor house and estate in Hampshire. The Rolling Stones and several other bands recorded there using a mobile studio. After Joness death and their move in 1971 to the south of France as tax exiles,[20] Jagger and the rest of the band changed their look and style as the 1970s progressed. He also learned to play guitar and contributed guitar parts for certain songs on Sticky Fingers (1971) and all subsequent albums (with the exception of Dirty Work in 1986). For the Rolling Stones highly publicised 1972 American tour, Jagger wore glam-rock clothing and glittery makeup on stage. Later in the decade, they ventured into genres like disco and punk with the album Some Girls (1978). Their interest in the blues, however, had been made manifest in the 1972 album Exile on Main St. His emotional singing on the gospel-influenced Let It Loose, one of the albums tracks, has been described by music critic Russell Hall as having been Jaggers finest ever vocal achievement.[21] After the bands acrimonious split with their second manager, Allen Klein, in 1971, Jagger took control of their business affairs after speaking with an up-and-coming front man, JB Silver, and has managed them ever since in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Rupert Löwenstein. Mick Taylor, Brian Joness replacement, left the band in December 1974 and was replaced by Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood in 1975, who also operated as a mediator within the group, and between Jagger and Richards in particular.[ 1980s While continuing to tour and release albums with the Rolling Stones, Jagger began a solo career. In 1985, he released his first solo album Shes the Boss produced by Nile Rodgers and Bill Laswell, featuring Herbie Hancock, Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer, Pete Townshend and the Compass Point All Stars. It sold fairly well, and the single Just Another Night was a Top Ten hit. During this period, he collaborated with the Jacksons on the song State of Shock, sharing lead vocals with Michael Jackson. For his own personal contributions in the 1985 Live Aid multi-venue charity concert, he performed at Philadelphias JFK Stadium; he did a duet with Tina Turner of Its Only Rock and Roll, and the performance was highlighted by Jagger tearing away Turners skirt. He also did a cover of Dancing in the Street with David Bowie, who himself appeared at Wembley Stadium. The video was shown simultaneously on the screens of both Wembley and JFK Stadiums. The song reached number one in the UK the same year. In 1987, he released his second solo album, Primitive Cool. While it failed to match the commercial success of his debut, it was critically well received. In 1988, he produced the songs Glamour Boys and Which Way to America on Living Colours album Vivid. 15–28 March, he had a solo concert tour in Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka). 22 March show was the Japanese artist Tokyo Domes first performance. 1990s[edit] Wandering Spirit was the third solo album by Jagger and was released in 1993. It would be his only solo album release of the 1990s. Jagger aimed to re-introduce himself as a solo artist in a musical climate vastly changed from that of his first two albums, Shes the Boss and Primitive Cool. Following the successful comeback of the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels (1989), which saw the end of Jagger and Richards well-publicised feud, Jagger began routining[vague] new material for what would become Wandering Spirit. In January 1992, after acquiring Rick Rubin as co-producer, Jagger recorded the album in Los Angeles over seven months until September 1992, recording simultaneously as Richards was making Main Offender. Jagger would keep the celebrity guests to a minimum on Wandering Spirit, only having Lenny Kravitz as a vocalist on his cover of Bill Withers Use Me and bassist Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers on three tracks. Following the end of the Rolling Stones Sony Music contract and their signing to Virgin Records, Jagger signed with Atlantic Records (which had signed the Stones in the 1970s) to distribute what would be his only album with the label. Released in February 1993, Wandering Spirit was commercially successful, reaching No.12 in the UK and No.11 in the US, going gold there. The track Sweet Thing was the lead single, although it was the third single, Dont Tear Me Up, which found moderate success, topping Billboards Album Rock Tracks chart for one week. 2000s n 2001, Jagger released Goddess in the Doorway spawning the hit single Visions of Paradise. In the same year, he also joined Keith Richards in the Concert for New York City, a charity concert in response to the 11 September attacks, to sing Salt of the Earth and Miss You. He celebrated the Rolling Stones 40th anniversary by touring with them on the year-long Licks Tour in support of their career retrospective Forty Licks double album.[22] In 2007, the Rolling Stones made US$437 million on their A Bigger Bang Tour, which got them into the current edition of Guinness World Records for the most lucrative music tour.[23] Jagger has refused to say when the band will retire, stating in 2007: Im sure the Rolling Stones will do more things and more records and more tours. Weve got no plans to stop any of that really.[24] In October 2009, Jagger and U2 performed Gimme Shelter (with Fergie and will.i.am) and Stuck in a Moment You Cant Get Out Of at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert.[25] 2010s[edit] On 20 May 2011, Jagger announced the formation of a new supergroup, SuperHeavy, which includes Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman.[26] Jagger has featured on will.i.ams 2011 single T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever). It was officially released to iTunes on 4 February 2012.[27] On 21 February 2012, Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck along with a blues ensemble performed at the White House concert series before President Barack Obama. When Jagger held out a mic to him, Obama sang twice the line Come on, baby dont you want to go of the blues cover Sweet Home Chicago, the blues anthem of Obamas home town.[28] Jagger hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live on 19 and 20 May 2012, doing several comic skits and playing some of the Rolling Stones hits with Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, and Jeff Beck.[29] Jagger performed in 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief with the Rolling Stones on 12 December 2012. The Stones finally played at the famous Glastonbury festival in 2013, headlining on Saturday 29 June. In 2013, Mick Jagger teamed up with his brother Chris Jagger for two new duets to mark the 40th anniversary of Chris debut album https://youtube/watch?v=qXcNQTa3zgs
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