Happy birthday, Mick Jagger!
I was never a big Stones fan, but I have very vivid memories of being at the neighborhood swimming pool as a pre-teen hearing *Satisfaction *played over and over again. (I think there was a jukebox there.) Never would I have imagined that someone his age would still be rocking.
Just wow…
Well, I just saw John Mayall last weekend, who will be 80 this year and he’s still rocking out onstage. But he doesn’t prance around like Sir Mick. Happy birthday, Mick, hope it’s a gas, gas gas!
What is making me feel decrepit is watching a commercial with an elderly couple who get a Swiffer on their doorstep and learn how easy it is to use. I would have guessed they were in their eighties. I finally listened to the words about the eighth time I saw it, and they talked about being married 44 years and having six kids. I’ve been married 41 years.
I keep thinking they were married in their forties, not their twenties. I can’t believe I look like that.
When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a short essay for English class on how impressive it was that Mick Jagger kept rockin’ out, even though he was so old.
This was in early 1981.
Mick was 37 years old.
Only slightly more than HALF the age he is now.
Meanwhile, today, I’M watching 37 disappear far off in the rearview mirror.
Appropriately so, as Mick wrote the lyrics while lounging at a swimming pool, in Tampa, Florida.
(Keith wrote the riff down just after waking up in a hotel room – maybe the same hotel that has the pool, I’m not sure – as the riff had come to him in his sleep).
A historic career; what a frontman, singer*, songwriter and personality.
*folks like to slag Jagger’s singing; YMMV - I love it. Regardless, his singing is his brand and is part of the sound of recent musical history and of songs that everyone knows and sings along to. I’d love to have a voice that did that.
I was asked by my brother if I wanted to go to a Stones concert with him and his buddies 1983.
“Na. They’re too old now” was my response.
Happy birthday Mick.
I know it’s only rock and roll, but I like it.
One thing about Mick’s longevity - and that of the rest of the Rolling Stones - you certainly can’t say it is from healthy living!
My guess is none of them have real blood running through their veins at this point - most likely a chemical substance, not unlike coolant in a car. Add a little oil to their joints and they should be able to go another couple hundred thousand miles.
Happy Birthday Mick…wish I could dance like Jagger, dance like Jagger…
The first Stones song I can remember was Under My Thumb which came out when I was about 7 or 8. I was a big Beatles fan at the time and I remember thinking who were these bad boys Stones that are always getting in trouble? Heh, a few years later and I wanted to be right there getting into trouble alongside 'em.
Mick, what a life. London School of Economics taught you well.
I’ll be 70 in a little over 2 years, but seeing that pic, I’d say I look 20 years younger than they do. So maybe I’ll look that old when I’m pushing 90.
Am I going to be the first to be astonished that he’s only 70?
I’ve always loved the Rolling Stones (my parents always had The Stones, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and all the other greats going in the car), but the man looks like a walking skeleton. And he always has to me, even when he was (apparently) in his late 40s. But at least he can say he looks better than Keith Richards.
My father-in-law is 83, and he looks better than Mick. But he can’t move like Mick, due to back and leg problems, so I guess there’s the trade-off!
May he live for ever.
I finally read Motley Crue’s epic sleazefest “The Dirt” a few weeks ago, and I can’t believe ANY of them are still alive. It was also really, really obvious to me that at least two of them (specifically, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx) were horrifically abused as children. :eek:
Rush drummer Neil Peart will be 60 in September. I saw an article a while back about his fitness regimen (on top of hitting the skins, he does yoga and cross-country skis, among other things) but not mentioned is that he also has a preschool-aged daughter. Most people would be skeeved out about a man having a child at his age, but considering that he lost his first family in the late 1990s, this can be understandable.
The Rolling Stones have an average age greater than the US Supreme Court.
This question motivated me to look up Charlie Watts.
He and his wife will celebrate their GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY next year. 50 years!! I remember when my grandparents celebrated theirs… they were OLD.
When I first encountered this fact, I was quick to respond: Which group still has more of its original members?
I am reminded of the story, oft told in my cadre about the time when one of us attended a Stones concert. The lucky attendee came back bragging about how close she was to the stage. When pressed for details, she told us all that she was so close that she could clearly see the spectre of Death floating over Keith Richards.
This was at least 15 years ago. The old guy with the scythe is probably a regular at Keith and Mick’s Thursday night poker game.
Happy Birthday to the man once described as ‘strutting about the stage like a rooster on acid.’
The last time I saw the Stones in concert, it was drizzling rain all through the opening act (Pearl Jam) and the intermission. As soon as the Stones took the stage, the rain stopped. Keef pointed at the heavens and said “We’ve got an understanding, right?” And sure enough, it stayed dry until the closing bars of the encore. The dude controls the elements. A few drugs aren’t going to do him in.
