Is there a 79-year-old on earth whos thriving like Sir Michael Philip Jagger?

He’s got eight children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

And thanks to diet andexercise, he hasnt lost his girlish figure.

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By 12, Mike learned three guitar chords.

But he pretended to like respectablejazz.

It was cool to like that, and it wasnt cool to like rock n roll.

mick jagger collage including with the rolling stones singing with tina turner at live aid onstage shirtless in the nineteen eighties and dueting with taylor swift

I thought I was the only fan for miles.

If one of them had arrived a few minutes later, thered be no Stones.

But the club owner noted his effect on girls and offered him more gigs.

photo of mick jagger and his brother chris as young children at the beach in the fifties

It was almost equivalent to wearing a dress in 1969.

Decca records rejected them, saying, A great band, but youll never get anywhere with that singer.

(Later, a shamefaced Decca executive whod rejected the Beatles eagerly signed the Stones.)

rolling stones members keith richards and mick jagger opening fan mail in nineteen sixty three

the rolling stones performing on a t v show in the mid nineteen sixties