# Mick Jagger is 60 years old today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979 "2003-07-25T22:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/21 "2003-07-26T18:59:01Z")
Rock on Mick and Happy Birthday! You are a living lesson to us all that the key to successfully comsuming mass quantities of drugs and alcohol is pacing yourself, that and drinking plenty of water. Keep Dancing in the Streets, dude. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/22 "2003-07-26T19:34:15Z")
Heck. Look at Tina Turner! She’s over 60 and better than Mick. ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/23 "2003-07-26T19:51:45Z")
Sorry about that typo, of course I meant “consuming”. Comsuming is what what Mr. Mick has done on his wedding nights… and I am a living lesson that, even with the use of preview, FUs happen ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/24 "2003-07-26T20:21:29Z")
Mick’s birthday has provided lots of fodder for newspaper columnists to tell is that 60 is the new 40 and no one who feels young is old. Middle-age has been defined as when you stop badmouthing your elders and start bad-mouthing those younger than you are, and the baby boomers have already been doing this for many, many, many years. Other generations died before them too. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/25 "2003-07-26T21:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*BB King has diabetes (and is about 80) - doesn’t that often lead to weight gain? \*\* Other way around. Obesity is the leading cause of adult-onset (Type 2) diabetes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/26 "2003-07-26T22:20:31Z")
If I had any dope, I’d burn one in Mick’s honor tonight. Happy Birthday, Mick!!! ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/27 "2003-07-26T22:50:37Z")
I can’t believe these guys are turing 60!!! I think what I find even harder to believe is they all still have a full head of hair!!! :dubious: Happy BD Mick, rock on bro!!! Shedoobie … shattered shattered … ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/28 "2003-07-27T01:59:46Z")
Jagger is 60. That’s like 205 in human years. OTOH, Marlon Brando weighs 16 tons and has had substance problems (especially with lasagna) and a tough life and is going strong at 74, and character actor Leon “General Burkhalter” Askin was obese 40 years ago and survived the Nazis in real life and is going strong at 97. Guess it’s in the genes. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979/29 "2003-07-27T02:16:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*I’m stunned. > > How the _Hell_ did Jagger manage to survive to _reach_ 60? 😕 > > He’s snorted, shot-up and screwed everything concievable! > :eek: \*\* Feh. William Burroughs made it to 83. Hell, the Marquis de Sade died at 74 and that was with all that fatty French food :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mick-jagger-is-60-years-old-today/190979.md?page=1)