Michael Philip Jagger (born 1943) was the lyricist and lead singer for the world's most enduring rock 'n' roll band, the Rolling Stones. Michael Philip Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England, on July 26, 1944, one of two sons of Eva and Joe Jagger....

I shall always believe that Mick Jagger lost me a boyfriend. The boyfriend was a man for whom I had tried to subvert my personality into something unnaturally serene and intellectual; in this I had almost succeeded, but in secret moments the real woman...

Birthdate: July 26, 1944. Hometown: Dartford, Kent, England. Instruments: vocals, guitar. Solo recordings: "She's the Boss" "Primitive Cool." Claim to fame: his thick lips, leaping and prancing. Pastimes: sailing in the Caribbean, laughing at politics, lifting weights. Family:...

Very few musicians can say they want to collaborate with Bono, John Lennon, David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Stewart and Peter Tosh and actually make it happen. Mick Jagger is one.Jagger's vacations from Keith Richards and the rest of the Rolling Stones are remembered in...

Mick Jagger wanted to be a singer. He figured that the best way to learn how was to study the greats.For Jagger, the greats weren't the hit crooners of the late 1950s. They were the men who took the blues and turned it into rock...

The purpose of this article is to put the Stones in their place: arm in arm with the Beach Boys and Dylan as creators of some of the greatest music produced in the West in this century. "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is still capable of dragging the most ambiguous and profound emotions out of me. I don't know what it means, but I know enough things that it means to know that few songs have ever been written to equal it. You don't need to have done acid to know that the simp...

Mick Jagger was never a rocker. He wasn't a mod, either. He was a bohemian, an antiutopian version of what Americans called a folkie. That is, he was attracted to music of a certain innocence as only a fairly classy—and sophisticated—person can be. Unlike John Lennon and Paul McCartney (and Bob Dylan), his ambitions weren't kindled by Elvis Presley; his angry, low-rent mien was no more a reflection of his economic fate than his stardom was a means for him to escape it. Something ...

Rejecting the banalities of their own culture and adopting instead the more realistic, if less "noble" and comfortable, attitudes of the black American ghetto resident, the Stones laid the foundation for the counter-culture by translating these black attitudes into an attractive image for alienated white youth. The importance of this black "blues" influence is nowhere more apparent than in the argot of the Stones' lyrics, and an examination of the existence of a black blue...