Mick Jagger Summary

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 Ju... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank Kofsky I call [Their Satanic Majesties Request] "interesting." I could just have appropriately said "intriguing," "provocative," �... Read more

Critical Essay by Bud Scoppa History has proven it unwise to jump to conclusions about Rolling Stones albums. At first Sticky Fingers seemed merely a statement of doper hipness on which the Stones (i... Read more

Critical Essay by Bob Sarlin If you couldn't be quite sure what the Beatles were after, it was clear that the Rolling Stones were after your sister, or, as some said, your ass…. What th... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Williams 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 Wes... Read more

Critical Essay by Noel Coppage Stones albums … have been not simply happenings in their time; they've also been peculiarly responsive to their time. There is no way one could adjust his... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Cott Exalted indifference. Innocent malice. Careless cruelty. It is these ambiguous mixtures of emotion which we find in songs like "Play with Fire," "... Read more

Critical Essay by Bruce Pollock If the Beatles brought rock 'n' roll to new creative heights with their lively literary interest in love, the Stones succeeded in the other direction, of... Read more

Critical Essay by Lester Bangs There are two things to be said about this new Stones album [Black & Blue] before closing time: one is that they are still perfectly in tune with the times (a.k.a.,... Read more

Critical Essay by David Dalton and Lenny Kaye They have participated in and provoked the transformation of the morals and manners of their generation so effectively that to future social historians t... Read more

Critical Essay by Jon Pareles Kicks just keep getting harder to find…. Not that the Rolling Stones care. Long ago, they realized that the pursuit of excess alone would be thankless. Younger, d... Read more

Critical Essay by Simon Frith My Stones pose was weariness, a pose I've feigned pretty well ever since. But it's a pose that's taken effort to maintain and reflects a furtive obs... Read more

Critical Essay by Ellen Sander It begins with a crazed wildcat yelp and the primordial rhythms of hand drums on a rampage. It builds maniacally in intensity and complexity, the vocal brawling, the dr... Read more

Critical Essay by John Gabree I have always been partial to the Stones. They have a much surer and, it seems to me, more realistic vision than the Beatles and they have been much more willing to expl... Read more

Critical Essay by Lenny Kaye There are songs that are better, there are songs that are worse, there are songs that'll become your favorites and others you'll probably lift the needle fo... Read more

Critical Essay by Lester Bangs The Stones still have the strength to make you feel that both we and they are hemmed in and torn by similar walls, frustrations and tragedies. That's the breakth... Read more