Mick Jagger
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Coming Under The Thumb: Mick Jagger
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, You, 20 September 1987
"You have to set an example," says the middle-aged father of four. But can this really be the drug-taking, rebellious, orgiastic Mick Jagger speaking? It ...
Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 2 March 1993
HE MAY BE a wandering spirit, but Mick Jagger sure doesn't travel light. This simple fact of life informs both the major tragedies and minor ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages audio, 26 July 1973
Ol' Rubber Lips on the reception afforded to Exile, the making of latest album Goat's Head Soup, what current music is or isn't turning him on, and the Stones' place in the scheme of things
File format: mp3 File size: 29.5mb Interview length: 32 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: **
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Mick Jagger: The Lead "Stone" Rolls Into L.A.
Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1968
MICK JAGGER, lead singer, main writer and best-known member of the Rolling Stones, sat in a corner of the empty Hollywood restaurant wearing a large ...
The Rolling Stones: Even Superstars have got to eat
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, August 1973
WHAT'S THIS? MICHAEL PHILIP FEELING THE PINCH? ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, New Musical Express, 10 June 2000
…it's obviously not as easy as it looks. Because although All Saints might have sucked big-time in Honest, they were merely part of a rich ...
Chris Farlowe: The Art of Chris Farlowe (Immediate)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
CHRIS FARLOWE has come a long, long way in a short time. His voice has improved and his interpretations become more imaginative and more skilled ...
Jagger: Solo Without Splitting
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972
JUST LIKE the thrill-seekers who attend a bullfight in the hope of seeing the handsome matador gored or the daring young man on the flying ...
Mick Jagger — Bad Joke Into Social Lion
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
MAUREEN CLEAVE talks to the voice of the Stones ...
Good Time Girl: Memories of super groupie Pamela Des Barres
Retrospective and Interview by Craig McLean, The Observer, 6 May 2018
Pamela Des Barres had the giants of rock'n'roll in the palm of her hand, as her candid memoir reveals. ...
Rolling Stone founder falls out with biographer over candid life story
Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 22 October 2017
Jann Wenner, whose magazine charted pop music and culture since the '60s, gave Joe Hagan full access but is unhappy with the result, especially "the ...
Mick Jagger: A Basically Serious Boy
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 23 July 1972
LONDON — HE may be his satanic majesty to Life magazine and Time and all the rest of the gang, but over here in London, ...
Rolling Stones: Taking The Mick Mick Mick Mick Mick
Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
Andrew Tyler joins the Jagger press gang and finds the man won't fade away ...
Report by Victor Bockris, Tatler, 1980
Victor Bockris fails to entertain Jagger, Warhol and Burroughs ...
Report and Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1988
Successful Australian tour reaffirms the singer's powers ...
Mick Jagger Lets His Hair Down
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 March 1973
THOSE OF you who have been irritably wondering what in the name of heaven I was doing in Australia with Mick Jagger when I should ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, September 2007
"I THINK YOU just learn as you go along," says Mick Jagger, "whether you're playing with the Rolling Stones or playing with other musicians." If ...
Chrissie Shrimpton: Girl in the Middle
Interview by Jean-Marie, Rave, July 1965
Girl In A Girl's World: Chrissie Shrimpton is the girl in the middle. Her boyfriend is Mick Jagger — a top star, her sister is ...
In the first of a new series, Georgie Fame meets Mick Jagger person to person for R&B TALK
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 November 1965
HERE IT IS — the start of another great Record Mirror series! The idea is simple enough: highly-respected R and B star Georgie Fame becomes ...
Mick Jagger: She's The Boss (Columbia)
Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1985
GETTIN' NO SATISFACTION ...
Memo from Jagger: The Story of Performance
Book Excerpt by Jay Glennie, Rock's Backpages, December 2018
"DO YOU FANCY writing a book on Performance?" It was Sandy Lieberson on the phone, the producer of Performance, with the offer of a lifetime. ...
Christopher Andersen: Mick – The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger
Book Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 17 August 2012
Christopher Andersen's biography of Mick Jagger is little more than an anthology of juicy gossip. ...
Mick Sheds Chrissie For Faithfull
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 25 February 1967
EVER SINCE he confirmed publically that he was no longer dating Chrissie Shrimpton it has been fairly common knowledge in London that MICK JAGGER spends ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 November 1968
...moans KEITH ALTHAM but catches up with Jagger later ...
Girls in the News: Mick and I by Marianne
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, April 1967
Show business has dealt some cruel blows to Marianne Faithfull. At the moment she's happy — with Mick Jagger. Dawn James asks her about her ...
Beatles And A Stone To Wales With Mystic
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 23 September 1967
ANY GOOD groupie and, indeed, any teenybopper of average intellect would assure you that one of the least likely places top pop people are to ...
The Tube: Thank God It's Friday
Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 23 February 1985
MALCOLM GERRIE is the man behind Tyne Tees' groundbreaking pop TV show The Tube. Lynden Barber went to Newcastle to investigate the programme and its ...
Mick versus Scott & John — the Truth
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 April 1966
IT'S DIFFICULT — no, IMPOSSIBLE! — to find out exactly how this mud-chucking, insult-flinging bit all started between Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and the Walker ...
Various Artists: Performance (Warner Bros.)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 9 August 1970
PERFORMANCE IS the movie starring Mick Jagger. Don't get it mixed up with Ned Kelly, the other Jagger starrer. Performance unlike Ned Kelly is supposed ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, September 1976
The gossip-monger who exposed Babylon, created Scorpio Rising and inspired 'Sympathy for the Devil', turns to Magick and the ascending Lucifer. ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 November 1966
MICK JAGGER'S latest line in telephone impersonations misfired last week when he rang to talk to me about the Chris Farlowe LP he has just ...
Chris Farlowe: The Art Of Chris Farlowe
Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 November 1966
TRACK BY TRACK OF THE ALBUM ...
Mick Jagger: Wandering Spirit (Atlantic)
Review by Max Bell, Vox, March 1993
REMEMBER THAT SCENE in Performance, where James Fox's Chas tells Mick Jagger's Turner: "You'll look funny when you're 40"? Well, the rock'n'roller's fear of that ...
Performance: A Victory For The Directors
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 11 April 1970
IT'S DANGEROUS and more than slightly unfair to review a film before its final cut; but Performance is too exceptional to wait. I was fortunate enough to ...
Mick Jagger: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, December 1983
1PM, THE SAVOY HOTEL. In the centre of suite 312 sits a 40-year old man once described by the writer Nik Cohn with these words: ...
Memoir by Keith Altham, Daily Mirror, 23 July 1993
KEITH ALTHAM'S unique association with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones has been established over 30 years. As a journalist and broadcaster he completed more ...
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, November 1967
Mick Jagger is a person with a lot to think about these days. With no manager, agent or record producer, it's up to him how ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 27 January 1993
California smile, insolent mouth, articulate manner — Mick Jagger is an 'interesting bunch of guys' and each one still has the edge. But is he ...
Mick Jagger: If You Don't Know Who This Bloke Is, Ask Your Parents…
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 14 February 1985
They'll tell you. "He's MICK JAGGER," they'll say, trembling visibly. "Singer with the Rolling Stones. He's 41 and he's had 8 Number Ones, 22 Top ...
Aftermath: Mick Jagger Answers Some Questions
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 26 August 1967
WHEN I SPOKE to Mick Jagger everything was "nice" and "groovy" with him, so don't believe everything you read in the papers. And he's happy ...
Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
THE ROLLING STONES WERE PLAYING in the Station Hotel, Richmond, two-and-a-half years ago when their two prospective managers came to take a look at them. ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, April 1989
A Guitar Hero Strikes a Different Kind of Bargain ...
Mick Jagger: Wandering Spirit (Atlantic)
Review by Mat Snow, Q, March 1993
A GLAMOROUS grandad of 49, no one in rock'n'roll is more tightly corsetted than Mick Jagger. His iron determination to keep lean and mean, to ...
Who The Hell Does Mick Jagger Think He Is?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, March 1993
MICK WAS so out of it that I could tell the waiters were scared he'd pass out. His head was so far back and he ...
Interview by Graeme Thomson, Sunday Herald, 27 October 2007
The Rolling Stones frontman reveals why his solo career is the foundation of his artistic life ...
Mick Jagger: The Old Man and The Sex
Profile by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1999
For years he's been renowned as a serial-philandering, penny-wise dinosaur of rock – still implicated in paternity suits for divorce settlements in his mid-50s. But ...
Who The Hell Does JERRY HALL Think She Is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1990
WANTED: drawling Southern belle with modelling experience, fun-loving socialite/raunchsome rock star's moll with sidelines in amateur dramatics, swimwear design and promoting beefy hot drinks. Position ...
Mick Jagger: A Trial Separation
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1987
WORLD'S END, CHELSEA, just down the King's Road from the old Drug Store, there's a charmingly delapidated terraced house that serves as occasional management offices ...
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 29 October 1977
The Stones always meant a lot to a lot of people, but are your own motivations for carrying on and doing it the same as ...
Mick Jagger: Noble Savage, Primitive Cool & All
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, February 1988
HE WALKS INTO the room radiating presence in an offhand sort of way, and people cower. He just looks so disconcertingly...well, Jaggeresque. ...
The Achievement of Madness: Performance
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Summer 2004
PERFORMANCE only gets better with the passing years. A key late ‘60s text, Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg’s film brings two Swinging London worlds together ...
Retrospective by James Maycock, The Independent, 17 March 1998
Thirty years ago the Vietnam war awoke the hippy generation to politics and drove them to revolt, writes James Maycock ...
Comment by Toby Young, New York Press, 18 May 1999
I'M IN A LOVE triangle with Mick Jagger –again. ...
Street Fighting Stone: Mick Jagger Talks
Interview by Miles, International Times, 17 May 1968
This conversation was taped over cups of tea at my house on Lord North Street one afternoon a few days after the famous anti-Vietnam war ...
Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
The Wedding Of The Decade’s glamourous shambles began back-stage after The Rolling Stones’ Paris Olympia show on September 23, 1970. When Mick Jagger met 25-year-old ...
Mick and Miles (A Musical in Several Parts)
Essay by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1981
A remarkable personal reminiscence of the night the author took rock star Mick Jagger to meet jazz star Miles Davis turns into rock/jazz history and ...
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