Midrambler -Mick's Bio

Mick Jagger Biography

Michael Philip Jagger was born in Dartford in July 25, 1943. His parents Basil "Joe" Jagger and Eva Scutts got married in 1940. Mick was the first son, joined by brother Chris four years later. At Wentworth Primary School knew Keith, but at this time weren't really friends. While Mick was popular, Keith went home after school

Mick was a good student and excellent in sports like cross-country running and basketball. Some of the local kids thought he was a mama's boy, because he preferring to spend his time at home or want to be alone. Mick was into music early, he got his first guitar at fourteen. Already adept at singing tunes he heard on the radio. Mick started learning to play Ritchie Valen's big hit "La Bamba".

Mick finished Dartford Grammar in 1960 and won a grant to attend at London School of Economics.

"We just bored playing, because all they wanted to hear was the hits, and they didn't want to knew about the blues, and we were feeling very blues purist right then". Mick Jagger, August, 1964.

"I wasn't in a good relatinship .... or I was in too many bad relatinship". Mick Jagger about "Stupid Girl".

In the fall of 1966 Mick and Keith inspired by the women their lives and strong drugs, were writing new music. Mick and Marianne would often disappear to a storeroom upstairs to smoke a joint and make love.

On February 5, 1967, Mick and Marianne were in bed at Harley House, reading the Sunday papers. Suddenly he jumped up, waving the mud-slingring weekly The News of The World.

Mick Jagger has taken LSD at the Moody Blues' house in Roehampton,

It was the latest report in the paper's ongoing exposé "Pop Stars and Drugs"

Jagger told us "I don't go out on it (LSD) now the cats (Fans) have taken it up. It'll just get a dirty name. I remember the first time I took it. It was on tour with Bob Diddley and Little Richards"....

Marianne laughed. "It's Brian. They've confused you with Brian. He still goes around telling one and all that he's the leader of the Rolling Stones". Mick was livid. The News of The World was trying to kill the Stones. Later that afternoon, he called his solicitor. That night, he appeared as scheduled on an ITV talk Show hosted by Eamonn Andrews, who cautiously asked him about the drug story. Mick announced that the News of the World story was a complete lie and that he would take action to clear his name. Two days later, Mick's solicitor obtained a writ for libel against the label.

It was a declaration of war, ill advised as it turned out. Robert Fraser called it "the Oscar Wilde mistake"