Honoring Mick On His 73rd Birthday !
Can’t help myself. I have to do this! ( I suppose you will find this a bit biased 🙂 )
Michael Philip Jagger, born July 26, 1943.
DM (WE) 10-11-2001 P. 20 Mick Jagger, age 10, at Wentworth County School with friends.
Dad Joe, mom Eva, Brother Chris and Mick lived in Richmond, a nice suburb of London. His dad was a gym teacher and helped his sons Mike and Chris, develop healthy exercise habits from their youth.
“Mike” became “Mick”, and had some rebellious years when he became a bit soft, but picked up his good childhood habits again when health became important to him. You can tell even now, it paid off.
That’s just a microphone, don’t worry.
As a teen, he loved the black blues guys from the USA. Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, BB King, to name a few. He liked to sing and imitate them. While at the Richmond train station one historic day, with a load of blues record albums under his arm, he came across Keith Richards who shared the same interest in blues. They rekindled their friendship, which had started when they were but wee lads.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Charlie Watts, drummer, Mick, and Keith
Mick dropped out of the prestigious London School of Economics to devote more time to the music. (Can you imagine how his parents felt about that?!) Hey! Turned out it was the right decision. (Can you imagine Michael Jagger, the banker?)
My intro to the Stones happened when I was about 14, on a transistor radio that I used to stick under my pillow at night. DJ Tom Clay at CKLW,( a huge Windsor, Ontario radio station across the river from Detroit) was playing things like “Not Fade Away” by the Stones, that he’d gotten his hands on, on a trip to London. That was before this music was actually released in the US.
In the early days. Around 1965.
I’d never heard of the Rolling Stones before that, but it was love at first listen. That music…that beat….that voice….spoke to me. Sang to ME. I was hooked.
My first Stones concert was at Cobo Arena in Detroit, November 26, 1965. Two friends and I (that would be Marie who comments here as “Ruby Red”, and Diane, sent in our money order to Cobo as soon as we heard tickets were available. That’s how you did it back then! The best tickets were $3.50, and that’s what we wanted.
Within a week, our tickets arrived in the mail….5th row, front and center! OMG! We were happy girls! 🙂
I remember what I wore. I remember being escorted by an usher, right down the center isle to row 5, and just about bursting with excitement! Yes, and I remember what Mick wore, and his blue eyes, and the magic…
What a night!
We were good girls. We didn’t do anything unseemly. About as risqué as we got was to write love letters to Mick (Diane’s letter was probably to Keith), and stuffed them under what we thought….hoped…was the dressing room door. (Wonder who ended up with those?? 🙂 )
Since then I’ve seen the Stones close to 40 times, from London to Los Angeles. Never paid $3.50 for a ticket again though! Some of the people I’ve met through the Stones group on the net called “Undercover”, have turned out to be wonderful friends. Laura and Joel, frequently mentioned here, are two of them.
I’m wearing my “Stones Jacket” here. Once in my second row seat in Oakland, CA, Mick tossed out his water bottle, and some of the water landed on my jacket. Of course, I’ll never wash it!
He’s got amazing energy!
Many faces of Mick over the years:
He’s intelligent, loaded with charisma, has a great sense of humor, a mind for business, and oh yes, he’s a great dad! (good thing, as number 8 is on the way).
Daughter Georgia, wife (at one time) Jerry, son James
Ok, not such a great husband. Nobody’s perfect.
🙂
The band has magic, and they keep getting better and better.
So here’s to YOU Sir Michael Philip Jagger….maker of great music, and giver of much energy, and joy and just plain fun!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
, Never Never Never Stop!
*****All pictures of Mick and family and the Stones here were taken by someone else and I give whomever that was all the credit, and thank them kindly!*****
Wandering Spirit 
A very nice tribute on Mick’s 73rd. Thank you, Micky! Love you always Mick! ❤️🎤
Hi Maureen, I have good memories of us seeing him…um…The Stones…together!
It was so fun to write!❤️
Always the theme music to our lives! 🎸🎟
You bet!🎼
OMG…… 73. I remember back in 77 ot 78 about 7 pm I was taking my son on a stroll on the baby stroller down Broadway St which ended up @ Hobby Airport in Houston and then all of a sudden there’s the motorcade with Police escortd taking Mick and wife Jerry who at the time was a Houston resident to a concert to perform in downtonn Houston, Never forget that. Finally got to see them here in Austin about 8 years ago.tickets were a present from my son.
Hi Abel, I guess most of us 70 and below have some kind of Stones memories, don’t we?Glad yours are good ones! Mine sure are. 😊
Great that you got to see them. There’s NOTHING like a Stones concert!
They will be doing some concerts in October in the US.
Wonderful post! I love your Stones memories. Although I never saw them in person, they remain one of my faves to this day.
I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed this post Marcia. I wondered what people would think about this…on a blog that is normally related to solo RV travel. 😊
I could feel myself holding back from writing it…and then I thought…”why? Write it!” And it was fun!
Mick the Magic Jagger. Remember “we’re breathing the same air the Mick is!” And we were. Beautiful, as always, my dear Lady.
My sweet Marie, yup, the same air….never mind those other thousands of people. 😊
We shared some good Mick times Ruby. But I bet we never said to each other, ‘someday Mick will be 73 years old.’ And if we had, we would have thought henwould be all old and decrepit, napping in the rocking chair. But here he is still bouncing and skipping up and down the stage like the energizer bunny. You go Bunny! I mean Baby! 🎤🎸🎷🎹
Marie ask Ray to show you my FB page from this morning. There is a great video.
Mick 🙂
I never tire of hearing your Cobo Hall story! Photos of Mick always appreciated…but why not one of your co-pilot?
hugs from another Mick chick
Hi Laura. I thought about the co-pilot picture…but there were so many great pictures to choose from, it didn’t make the cut. 😊 I did put it on the blog long ago though. I think.
Glad you like the Cobo story. There are actually two Cobo stories, the second one taking place July 8, 1966. 😂
Loved the pictures and tribute to Mick. And you have attended 40 Rolling Stone concerts!!! That is a true fan.
Hi Annie, I’m glad you enjoyed that!
Not quite 40 concerts. It’s around 37 or 38 I believe. They just keep getting better. 😊
Never been a die hard fan, but certainly a fan of that era and others similar. I admire your “cool” Micky…
Hi Cindy, :-))) Well, I never was very cool, but I still think it was neat that I fell for the “best Rock n Roll band in the world” when hardly anyone had heard of them. I guess that was pretty cool! 🙂