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Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July
1943 in Dartford (town)|Dartford, Kent, England)
is a United Kingdom|British Rock and roll|rock
musician, actor, writer, songwriter, record and
film producer and businessman. He is most famous
for being the lead singer and co-founder (with
guitarist Brian Jones) of the British rock and
roll band The Rolling Stones. He is also the
songwriting partner of Stones guitarist Keith
Richards, and the pair have composed almost all
the Rolling Stones' original material, as well as
numerous songs for other artists including As
Tears Go By (for Marianne Faithfull) and Out Of
Time (for Chris Farlowe).


==Biography==
===Early years===
Jagger was born to Joe and Eva Jagger. He
discovered early rock & roll music during his
teenage years and formed the band Little Boy Blue
& the Blue Boys. In his late teens, he met up with
future Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards,
who he met when both attended the Dartford Maypole
County Primary School. They started the band
shortly thereafter, due to their mutual love of
rock & roll and blues.

Jagger attended the London School of Economics.
During the 1960s he was linked romantically with
Chrissie Shrimpton, (the sister of supermodel Jean
Shrimpton) and then with singer Marianne
Faithfull, for whom Jagger and Richards composed
several songs, including her signature tune, As
Tears Go By. They remained a couple until late
1969, when Jagger and Faithfull travelled to
Australia to star in the Tony Richardson film Ned
Kelly (1970 movie)|Ned Kelly. Soon after their
arrival in Sydney, Faithfull overdosed on sleeping
pills and almost died. The relationship was over
by the time she was sent home to England to
recuperate. Jagger then embarked on a series of
liaisons, including rumoured dalliances with
Richards' girlfriend at the time, Anita
Pallenberg, and singers Merry Clayton and Marsha
Hunt (singer and novelist)|Marsha Hunt.

===Drug controversy===
In 1967 Jagger and Richards were arrested and
charged with drug possession after a highly
publicised raid on Richards' country house, during
which it was alleged that Faithfull was found
naked except for a fur rug wrapped around her. The
raid was later revealed to have been prompted by a
tip-off to the London Drug Squad by journalists
working for Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World,
which at the time was running a series of lurid
reports about the alleged use of illegal drugs by
British pop stars.

In one of these reports, Jagger was alleged to
have spent an evening at a London club in the
company of a Murdoch journalist, during which he
openly discussed his drug-taking and invited
others back to his flat "for a smoke."  When the
report was published, it became obvious that the
hapless journalist had mistaken Brian Jones for
Jagger -- who promptly sued News Of The World for
defamation.

But this legal action was stymied by his and
Richards' subsequent arrest. The trial made
front-page news around the world. Despite Jagger
having credible evidence that the pills allegedly
found in his possession had been prescribed to
him, both were found guilty.

The severity of the sentences handed down
(imprisonment with hard labour) caused a huge
public outcry. It was also the subject of the
famous leader by William Rees-Mogg, editor of The
Times. Titled "Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel,"
Rees-Mogg asserted that it was Jagger's and
Richards' celebrity that made them targets, and
that their sentences for first offences were more
harsh than what "any purely anonymous young man"
would have received. Their convictions were
overturned on appeal, and they subsequently were
released, though the other person arrested with
them, noted London art dealer Robert Fraser,
served six months.

===Leader of The Rolling Stones===
It was during this period that Jagger took over as
the effective leader of The Rolling Stones, as
founder Brian Jones became more and more
incapacitated by his spiralling drug use. Jones
left the band in early 1969 and accidentally
drowned in his swimming pool only weeks later
(though rumours persist that he was murdered).

===Children and marriage===
Jagger's first child, Karis Jagger|Karis (by
singer Marsha Hunt (singer and novelist)|Marsha
Hunt), was born in 1970. In May 1971 he married
Bianca Jagger|Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, and
she gave birth to their daughter Jade Jagger|Jade
later that same year, the same year the band
released "Sticky Fingers," one of their most
popular albums.  Between 1990-1999, he was married
to model/TV hostess Jerry Hall, and they had four
more children, Elizabeth Jagger|Elizabeth
Scarlett, Georgia May Ayeesha, Gabriel Luke
Beauegard and James Leroy Augustine Jagger. A
brief affair with Brazilian model and TV presenter
Luciana Gimenez resulted in the birth of Lucas
Jagger (1999).

===Films===
Jagger appeared in films such as the Nicholas Roeg
cult thriller "Performance (movie)" in 1970.

===Today===
After the band's acrimonious split with their
second manager, Allen B. Klein, Jagger took
control of the band's business affairs and has
managed them ever since, in collaboration with his
friend and colleague, Prince Rupert von
Löwenstein.

He also has appeared in the following movies:

# Mayor of the Sunset Strip, 2003
# The Man from Elysian Fields, 2001
# Enigma, 2001
# Mein liebster Feind (aka My Best Fiend)- with
Klaus Kinski 1999
# Bent, 1997
# Freejack, 1992
#D Wings of Ash: Pilot for a dramatisation of the
life of Antonin Artaud 1978
# Umano non umano 1972
# Ned Kelly 1970
# Performance 1970


Mick Jagger was knight bachelor|knighted on 12
December 2003, for his "services to popular music"
http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/nyc-mick121
3,0,6245456.story?coll=nyc-ent-short-navigation. 
His fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards was
unimpressed. "I thought it was ludicrous to take
one of those gongs from the establishment...it's
not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want
to step out on stage with someone wearing a
fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I
told Mick, 'It's a fucking paltry honour.'"
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/stor
y.jsp?story=469884

==Solo discography==
* She's the Boss (1985)
* Primitive Cool (1987)
* Wandering Spirit (1993)
* Goddess in the Doorway (2001)
* Alfie (2004 movie)|Alfie (2004). Movie
soundtrack. Written together with David A.
Stewart|Dave Stewart  (Eurythmics)

==Solo hit singles==
* "Memo from Turner" (1970) #32 UK
* "Just Another Night" (1985) #32 UK; #12 US
* "Dancing in the Street" (with David Bowie)
(1985) #1 UK; #7 US
* "Lucky in Love" (1985) #38 US
* "Let's Work" (1987) #31 UK; #39 US
* "Sweet Thing" (1993) #24 UK

==External links==
*http://www.mickjagger.com MickJagger.com
(official site)
*http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001396/ Internet Movie
Database entry