Though Jagger has spent over four decades at the centre of the public spotlight, he is still something of a mystery. You'd think Jagger The Shagger never existed at all. The sleaze is spread all over it like butter melting on toast."įrom reading According To The Rolling Stones, however, you'd think the butter that Geldof alluded to wouldn't melt in Mick Jagger's mouth - let alone on the breakfast toast of whatever supermodel he is squiring. Lest we forget, the dignified man who is now a keen gardener and collector of 15th century French palaces, antiques and priceless paintings, also sang songs like Stray Cat Blues: "Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat/ Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that/ Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat/ Bet your mama don't know you scream like that/ I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that."īob Geldof recently described the track as "an absolutely filthy song - I don't know how they got away with it. No blushing violet, Mick had already written a song of the same name concerning the exploits of a homosexual hooker in London. The band made a movie about it, ****sucker Blues - which they subsequently banned themselves. Their notorious 1972 jaunt across north America is forever enshrined in popular imaginations as a drugged-out maelstrom of bacchanalian lunacy and backstage debauch. That they also achieved a certain transcendence through their music seems almost a footnote to their lifestyles. Like some grand misogynist Caligula on a sexual picnic around the world, Mick and the Rolling Stones were possibly (notwithstanding Led Zeppelin) the most decadent, provocative rock band in showbusiness history - perfectly defining rock'n'roll dissolution. Sometimes, it seemed, you can always get what you want - and his entire life was a case study in proving it.
Even today, Jagger remains the X-rated Peter Pan who can't get no satisfaction - "but I try and I try and I try and I try," to quote from the song.įor 40 years, his waking desires were gratified instantly. The list of beautiful women who have queued up to kiss those infamous lips is endless. ) plus whoever else happened along (Luciana Gimenez Morad, Caprice, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman. Well, Jagger - the colossus of alpha male appetite who has lovers by the thousands while never seeming to be in love - is now 60 and is looking perfectly ridiculous, thank you very much.Īs ex-wives Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger would agree, Mick's long-held concept of fidelity always included having several supermodel companions in tow (Carla Bruni, Sophie Dahl, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour.
According to the Rolling Stones Edited by Dora Lowenstein and Philip Dodd Weidenfeld & Nicholson, ?35 'YOU'RE a funny little fella," the gangster played by James Fox scolds the oddball rock star played by Mick Jagger in the 1968 movie Performance.
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