As Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger turns 80 we look back at a career spanning six wild decades involving great loves, losses, drink and drugs – and eight kids by five women
For more than six decades, Sir Mick Jagger’s gyrating snake hips, flamboyant sense of style and energetic on-stage antics have firmly cemented him as one of the world’s most legendary rock stars.
“You start out playing rock‘n’roll so you can have sex and do drugs but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock‘n’roll and have sex,” he once said of his career. Before the ink on the Bianca-Mick divorce papers was even dry, he was already dating model Jerry Hall. At the time, stunning Texas-born Jerry was engaged to Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. She later admitted in her 2010 biography, Jerry Hall: My Life In Pictures, “Mick laid siege to me, sending me flowers and getting me invited to dinners where he would be seated next to me. I was flattered.
Jerry and Mick had four children – Elizabeth, now 39, James, 37, Georgia May, 31, and Gabriel, 25 – as well as a Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali that was declared null and void by London’s High Court in 1999 as it wasn’t legally binding. But his children have probably helped to keep him young, an important factor for the man who professed, “Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up?”
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