Rise in popularity
Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the group, used many musical styles and directions in his work and always continued to learn from his blues predecessors and from modern rockers, constantly improving his singing. And all this - within the framework of the Rolling Stones group, which was the meaning of his work and life path. All the leader’s creative plans were embodied here, since there was no rivalry between the group’s musicians. Although the singer himself did not believe in the long-term success of the Rolling Stones, which he once openly spoke about. But the group’s popularity grew every year, large tours in the USA and European countries awaited it (1990-1991), and a year later the most successful solo album called Wandering Spirit was released. This is the third album in a row, but it was the one that rose to 11th position, and soon was already certified gold. Mike's producer, Rick Rubin, worked a lot on this.
And although Blender magazine published the results of a survey, according to which the main Rolling was in 13th place among the 50 worst modern musicians, this did not break him.
This album was followed by the albums Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon along with a world tour. And the basis for the 4th solo album - Goddess in the Doorway (2001) - was the films Man From Elysian Fields and Bent with the participation of Mick. The singer did not limit himself only to solo recordings and collaborated with other artists, even beginners.
Mike has composed scores for 18 films, most notably Waking My Demon Brother, Goodfellas and Vanilla Sky. In collaboration with D. Stewart, the musician wrote the soundtrack to the film “Alive.” Mike's production works include the films “The Enigma Code” (the premiere took place in England and was a success), “The Rolling Stones. Let there be light", "Women".
Mick Jagger: personal life
Mike has always been in the spotlight of the press. Much has been written and continues to be written about him. And although he promised that he would never write about his personal life, the famous journalist-biographer H. Andersen published a book: “Mick Jagger. Great and terrible." The basis for its writing were conversations and interviews with colleagues, band members, wives, friends and girlfriends of the musician. This book also lifted the curtain on many facts from the personal life of the scandalous Rolling Stones lead singer, which he kept secret from the press.
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Numerous children
The musician was in no hurry to tie the knot, but he was always surrounded by numerous singers, models and actresses. He has 7 children (4 daughters and 3 sons) and 2 granddaughters. The mother of her granddaughters, Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger, is a sought-after jewelry designer. Her mother is Mick Jagger's wife from his first marriage, Bianca. His son Lucas is younger than his granddaughters. With the birth of the boy, the romance between Mike and Jerry Hall, a famous model, which lasted 21 years, ended. His other daughter Elizabeth is a model. The latter's scandalous affairs upset her father, and one day he did everything to prevent her from marrying an actor. The reason is the large age difference (26 years).
Mike was knighted in 2002. And since the end of 2003, when addressing him, many people respectfully add “sir” - Sir Michael Jagger. Although the musician himself prefers to be called simply Sir Mick. His famous slogan “Sex, drugs and rock and roll” actually characterizes the singer’s lifestyle.
Mick Jagger: 'Women expect too much from me'
He stopped drinking, smoking and taking drugs, worried about his own health, because Jagger was no longer young. “I value my good name and don’t want to be known as an old wreck,” says Mick. “After all, we are still “stars,” albeit with the status of “living legends”!”
“My life consisted only of marijuana and beer”
Michael Philip Jagger was born on July 26, 1943 in the British city of Dartford, Kent. His father Basil worked as a physical education teacher, and his mother Eva participated in the work of the Conservative Association. “I am a child of war. “I didn’t eat a single piece of candy as a child,” the musician shares. Mick studied at the London School of Economics, but the only thing he liked there was the singing lessons. He tried to sing as loudly as possible, and one day he got so carried away that he bit off the tip of his tongue. Jagger's father enrolled him in six sports clubs at the same time. “He hoped that I would become an athlete,” says the musician. “But at that time my life consisted only of marijuana and beer.”
Mick met Keith Richards at Dartford Primary School. Then they did not communicate for seven years and met again by chance in 1961, when Keith saw Mick at Dartford railway station holding several rhythm and blues records in his hands. During the conversation, it turned out that both of them were fond of blues - unlike most of their peers, who preferred rock and roll, and that they had a mutual acquaintance - Mick Taylor, who studied at art school. The three of them decided to create a group, which they named Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys and learned several songs from the repertoire of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. And later Richards and Jagger would perform with the Rolling Stones.
Their group quickly became popular; in those years it walked in the wake of the new youth movement. To some extent, the Rolling Stones were the antipode of the Beatles - the undisputed leaders and idols of many generations. When the Stones producer cited the Beatles as a role model to guitarist Richards, Richards replied, “Let them look slick and respectable, and we'll look sloppy and vicious.” However, Mick now makes no secret of the fact that they admired the Beatles: “They were our competitors, but at the same time they were pioneers, those who led us forward, paving the way. I admire what they did that was innovative, that they went to the US first. They showed us the way and became world celebrities. In England, no one believed that you could be famous somewhere outside the country. And the Beatles conquered the whole world.”
“The stage itself is like a drug”
The Stones were obsessed with music, playing guitars for days on end, not caring too much not only about their careers, but even about dinner. One day, Beatles leader John Lennon dropped by at Jagger and Richards' rented apartment in London. He found them in bed, “huddled together for warmth. The only food they had was potatoes – boiled and fried.” It was later that they began to earn $500 million per concert tour, fly on the Starship jet - their own Boeing 720, with the Stones logo on the fuselage, and choose their country of residence at their whim.
Jagger, Richards and another member of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, were repeatedly arrested for drug possession, brought to trial and even received suspended sentences with probation. A question typical of English newspapers in 1964: “Will you let your daughter marry a member of the Rolling Stones?” — fully expressed the attitude of the establishment towards these “bad boys.” They had constant problems with the authorities, countless extramarital affairs, ending in lawsuits for alimony payments, fights and even murders arose around them at concerts - in the city of Altamont, one of the stage guards killed a spectator with a knife who was threateningly waving a pistol.
It sometimes seemed to those around them that the Stones had pledged their souls to the devil, receiving in return a musical gift, the ability to feel the melody of time, to turn sounds into something more than rock hits. Their songs were like the cry of despair of an entire generation. Satisfaction became an anthem immediately after Jagger performed it. And in response to the Beatles’ idyllic ballad Let it be (“Let it be”), they responded with the harsh apocalyptic Let it bleed (“Let the blood flow”).
If the Beatles shocked the public, it was still largely a game, preserving the image of rebels protesting against bourgeois values. For the Stones, social protest turned out to be sincere self-expression. Their stage image of "wicked boys" first became a way of life, and then made them pay the bills. And for members of the rock band, their musician friends, girlfriends and even children, this turned into tragic trials or death.
1971 “Everyone was on one drug or another,” Mick Jagger later said. “So these were difficult times.” Sometimes it was impossible to understand what you were doing - recording or having dinner. Engineers, producers - all those people who, by the nature of their work, are obliged to be organized, were completely disorganized."
Brian Jones was the first to become addicted to heroin. His death is still shrouded in mystery. He drowned in the pool of his own villa in London. Keith Richards is a long-time heroin addict. He underwent treatment more than once to get rid of drug addiction. Since the mid-60s, his life has been a continuous series of trials, car accidents, injuries and treatment in private clinics. Richards' girlfriend Anita Pallenberg became a complete drug addict. Her second child was born with a terrible facial defect - a cleft palate. Only a quarter of a century later, after many attempts, Anita managed to give up heroin.
Marianne Faithfull, whom Jagger was crazy about, became a “wreck.” She is said to have given up heroin after a long period of treatment in Switzerland. Jagger himself was always quite cautious and calculating. He managed not to get hooked on heroin. In late 1995, Mick famously said: “Anyone who takes heroin thinks about heroin a lot more than anything else. You try to work and move things along, but the drug comes first.” Richards then refused to comment on this topic.
Today, Jagger says: “Personally, I am against taking any drugs like drugs or alcohol before a concert. I'm not saying that I've never done this, but it didn't take me very long to realize that I shouldn't do this. The stage itself works like a drug.”
“Sexy vampire” Jagger has long earned the reputation of “the main lover of the century.” True, as the musician himself admitted, he is somewhat burdened by this title: “All women expect more from me than what I am capable of. My fly is literally overgrown with myths.”
His first common-law wife was the same Marianne Faithfull, a British singer. They met in 1965 in a London bar. “I couldn’t get past this angel with a huge bust,” says Mick. Marianne became pregnant, but had a miscarriage. In 1971, Jagger officially married former model Bianca Perez-Mora Macias, his junior by seven years. She graduated from the University of the Sorbonne. “I often met beautiful women, but I never met smart ones,” Mick was surprised then. He lived with Bianca for eight years. In 1971, their daughter Jade was born. A year earlier, his mistress Marsha Hunt gave birth to Jagger's daughter, Cerys.
The couple separated amid scandal. “I endured betrayal for a long time, so I have the right to your money,” Bianca shouted in court. The woman sued her ex-husband for $1 million. Even before the divorce, Jagger met the American model Jerry Hall, 13 years his junior. “I was surprised that such a beautiful woman would want to see me alive,” says Jagger. “I had to give myself to her.” They dated for eleven years and got married only in 1990, when they already had two children - Elizabeth and James. The marriage produced a daughter, Georgia, and a son, Gabriel. Mick cheated on his wife, saying: "I'm a rock star, don't you understand that?"
“The first supermodel” Janice Dickinson just had the imprudence to date a rock idol behind the back of her “colleague in the modeling business” Jerry Hall. According to Janice, Jagger, who was already over 40 at that time, courted her “like a 14-year-old teenager”: “He called me 50 thousand times - both day and night - from different parts of the planet. Then he literally filled my apartment with roses and asked if I would become “his baby.” How could I resist after all this? True, their romance was short-lived. Jerry Hall identified her rival and “discouraged” her from her husband.
Sex therapist Natasha Terry, who was romantically involved with Jagger in 1999, considers the rocker a “sexual vampire”: “He cannot be faithful to one woman. He needs threesomes, lots of girlfriends and other eccentric things to feel young. He dates several women at the same time because this kind of relationship seems to recharge his energy." However, all the musician’s mistresses agreed on one thing: in bed, Mick Jagger had no equal.
Chrissie Shrimpton, who dated the Stones frontman from 1963-66, says Jagger "kept order all the way through." Mick, in particular, was willing to pay her drink bills but demanded that she "leave the nightclub and go home when he tells her to." “I went to a few clubs in London,” Chrissy recalls. “He could have found me on the phone in one of them and demanded that I go home. I’d take a taxi and rush to the apartment, and Mick would call home after a while to make sure I was listening to him.” Pamela Des Barres, a former fan of the group whom Jagger became friends with in the US in the 1970s, says she felt "special" around the front. She considers Mick "a very fun lover." Catherine James and Janice Kinnear, who lived in the same house with the musician in the early 1970s, agree with her. Formally, Katherine was “listed” as a girlfriend, and Janice was the rock idol’s cook. True, this triple alliance did not last long: James was so jealous of Jagger and Kinnear that she was ready to “kill them both.”
In 1999, Brazilian model Luciana Morand gave birth to Mika's son Lucas. Jagger disowned the child, but the girl proved his paternity with a DNA test. It was then that Jerry filed for divorce and sued for $15 million. “Mick is just sick,” the musician’s ex-wife said. — He has an unhealthy attraction to women. His hormones are going through the roof.” All four of Jagger's children with Hall have dyslexia, the inability to read and write correctly.
Mick himself was predicted that he would become a ruin, that he would not live to see 60, and much more in this spirit. However, he remains one of the richest and most famous stars on the stage. Jagger explains his secret to popularity simply: “I think we’re just lucky. We were in the right place at the right time. We also work very hard. Even over the years, there is no feeling that the concert will be easy. This is a dangerous thought, you should never calm down. Only when you hear the roar of the crowd, the applause, and feel the reaction of the audience, do you understand: everyone is on my side.”
Recently, the Rolling Stones singer created a supergroup called Super Heavy. Along with Jagger, it included former member of the Eurythmics duo Dave Stewart. Other members of the group were Bob Marley's youngest son Damian, singer Joss Stone and Indian composer A.R. Rahman, known, in particular, for the soundtracks to Danny Boyle's films Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. Jagger promises: the supergroup's debut album will be released soon, and a video clip will be shot for its title song.
Prepared by Lina Lisitsyna, based on materials from Gazeta.ua, Delo, Evening Moscow, Metro
The unceremonious rude man decided to settle down
At a certain period in his life, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones announced that he had given up bad habits and given up alcohol, smoking and drugs. Seriously concerned about his health and preserving his good name, he decided in his old age to change his lifestyle.
Most recently, Jagger was romantically linked to designer L'Wren Scott, who founded the fashion label of the same name in 2006. In March 2014, it became known that she had been found dead at the age of 47. The cause of death was suicide. Scott reportedly hanged herself. At the time of her death, Jagger was on tour in Australia with his bandmates.
