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Top 31 Amazing Mick Jagger Facts

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1- Mick Jagger   got his first guitar at the age of 14

2- His full name is Sir Michael Philip Jagger.

3- Jagger and McCartney talked seriously about the venture, but it never materialized. In January 1968, the Beatles founded Apple Records

4- In early 2009 he joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy.

5- He studied business at undergraduate level at the London School of Economics, and wanted to be either a journalist or a politician.

6-  His career has been described as “one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll”.

7- In 2004 was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones.

Mick Jagger UK Music Hall of Fame

8- Jagger founded the Jagged Films in 1995 together with Victoria Pearman. The firm produced the documentary Being Mick in 2001.

9-Mick Jagger didn’t like The Rolling Stones’ 1967 album “Their Satanic Majesties Request.”

10-  Mick Jagger still performs with the same gusto he had in his 20s, and it’s due in part to an insane workout regimen (and, presumably, the blackest magic available)

11- Maroon 5’s song ‘Moves like Jagger’ is about Mick Jagger

12- Jagger was in a long-term relationship with fashion designer L’Wrenn Scott from 2001 until her death by suicide in 2014

13- In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception.

14- He also has five grandchildren, and became a great-grandfather on 19 May 2014, when Jade’s daughter Assisi gave birth to a daughter.

15- He composed an improvised soundtrack for Kenneth Anger’s film Invocation of My Demon Brother on the Moog synthesiser in 1969.

16-  Mick Jagger    supports the English national football team, and regularly attended FIFA World Cup games, appearing at France 98, Germany 2006, South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.

17- Keith Richards was his classmate in September 1950, at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford.

18-  Mick Jagger was honored with a knighthood for his exemplary services to popular music. He was knighted by Prince Charles on December 12, 2003.

19- Since 1968, Mick Jagger appeared on the cover of Rolling Stones magazine over 20 times.

20- His father and grandfather were both teachers

21- Mick Jagger founded Jagged Internetworks to cover English cricket.

22- Mick Jagger is also referenced in Kesha’s song “Tik Tok”, the Black Eyed Peas’ hit “The Time (Dirty Bit)”, and his vocal delivery is referenced by rapper Kanye West in the T.I. and Jay-Z single “Swagga Like Us”.

23- In 1995 Jagger founded Jagged Films with Victoria Pearman. Its first release was the World War II drama Enigma in 2001. That same year it produced a documentary on Jagger entitled Being Mick.

24- Mick Jagger was an aspiring journalist and politician

25- Keith Richards called Jagger “unbearable” in his autobiography

26- He and the Rolling Stones first made it to the British music charts in 1964 with a cover of The Valentinos’ “It’s All Over Now.” 

27- Mick Jagger is a big fan of ballet

Mick Jagger ballet

28- Mick Jagger is a multi-instrumentalist, playing the harmonica, piano and tambourine

29- In the 1960s, Jagger and Paul McCartney almost started a record label together. The Beatles, however, went ahead by themselves and helped to create Apple Studios.

30- In 1989, he and his band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

31- Mick Jagger was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2003

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