Can we gossip please about Mick Jagger?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:14:43 PP. Apparently Mick affects a Cockney/working class accent as part of his rocker persona. Earlier interviews he is heard using his decidedly more posh, proper British accent.

Yep. Contrary to their image, the Stones were from fairly posh backgrounds. The Beatles, on the other hand, weren't (with the exception of Lennon). George was from what he called the Liverpool equivalent of the Bowery, and Ringo was from practically a slum. Paul's neighborhood was a little better, but definitely working class. They just *seemed* a bit more put together (per the image Brian wanted them to portray).

Maybe compared to the Beatles, but Keith is from a very working class family and Mick’s was only slightly more posh. I don’t think Brian’s family was very posh, he was pretty trashy at a young age (impregnated several women before he was even 20 and didn’t recognize any as his kids).

Not surprising
I do not blame him

Women would throw themselves at those men. What's the point of pretending to be a parent to a kid whose mother you do not know, or even remember.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read some Rolling Stone biographies if you want all the dirt.

Like what?

[Anonymous]

Is he decent to work for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:14:43 PP. Apparently Mick affects a Cockney/working class accent as part of his rocker persona. Earlier interviews he is heard using his decidedly more posh, proper British accent.

Yep. Contrary to their image, the Stones were from fairly posh backgrounds. The Beatles, on the other hand, weren't (with the exception of Lennon). George was from what he called the Liverpool equivalent of the Bowery, and Ringo was from practically a slum. Paul's neighborhood was a little better, but definitely working class. They just *seemed* a bit more put together (per the image Brian wanted them to portray).

Maybe compared to the Beatles, but Keith is from a very working class family and Mick’s was only slightly more posh. I don’t think Brian’s family was very posh, he was pretty trashy at a young age (impregnated several women before he was even 20 and didn’t recognize any as his kids).

Not surprising
I do not blame him

Women would throw themselves at those men. What's the point of pretending to be a parent to a kid whose mother you do not know, or even remember.

Some of those pregnancies happened before he got famous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is he decent to work for?

yes of course but demanding of time. he's a man with a lot of energy and ideas and expects everyone to keep up

[Anonymous]

I just listened to the Post podcast about Altamont (sp?). And the reporter actually got Keith Richards to talk about it briefly. What an insane situation. The tour manager and Mick’s assistant at the time were interviewed and offered a couple interesting tidbits/insights.

[Anonymous]

He had an affair with a black woman (supposedly Brown Sugar was about her) and they have an adult child who I think went to Harvard, or another Ivy League.

The biography was put out around 2012 is pretty good.

[Anonymous]

^^it wa as a relationship, not an affair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He had an affair with a black woman (supposedly Brown Sugar was about her) and they have an adult child who I think went to Harvard, or another Ivy League.

The biography was put out around 2012 is pretty good.

Who wrote that one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:14:43 PP. Apparently Mick affects a Cockney/working class accent as part of his rocker persona. Earlier interviews he is heard using his decidedly more posh, proper British accent.

Yep. Contrary to their image, the Stones were from fairly posh backgrounds. The Beatles, on the other hand, weren't (with the exception of Lennon). George was from what he called the Liverpool equivalent of the Bowery, and Ringo was from practically a slum. Paul's neighborhood was a little better, but definitely working class. They just *seemed* a bit more put together (per the image Brian wanted them to portray).

Maybe compared to the Beatles, but Keith is from a very working class family and Mick’s was only slightly more posh. I don’t think Brian’s family was very posh, he was pretty trashy at a young age (impregnated several women before he was even 20 and didn’t recognize any as his kids).

At the end of the day, my understanding is the Beatles were from poorer backgrounds (except perhaps for John). Paul's mother died when he was a teenager, but she was a midwife and the primary wage earner. His father was a working musician. George's father was a bus driver and his mother was a factory worker; they lived in Speke (basically a housing project way out from the center of Liverpool). Ringo was raised by a single mother in the Dingle (a very, very rough area). After his father left, his mother worked cleaning houses and then as a barmaid.

Though his father was a factory owner, Keith's grandparents were civic leaders who helped create the local Labour Party.

Brian's parents were middle class; his father was an aeronautical engineer.

Mick went to the London School of Economics, for pete's sake. You never hear about rock musicians (especially from that time) going to places like that for school. They rarely went to college at all (except for art college).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^it wa as a relationship, not an affair.

Marsha Hunt is just some black woman? Karis is Mick’s oldest child, and they have always had a good relationship. I’ve met him on some projects (not music) and he’s intense but courteous in those settings. Definitely not 5’ 10”. More like 5’ 7”.

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Didn’t he have a child with a girlfriend ballerina that’s 30 years younger than him?

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His eldest daughter is Karis Jagger. She went to Yale and has a fun food Instagram called Hey Sistah.

[Anonymous]

He's reportedly very stingy with his money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^it wa as a relationship, not an affair.

Marsha Hunt is just some black woman? Karis is Mick’s oldest child, and they have always had a good relationship. I’ve met him on some projects (not music) and he’s intense but courteous in those settings. Definitely not 5’ 10”. More like 5’ 7”.

Not always. He denied paternity of Karis until Marsha Hunt sued him. Hunt has credited Jerry Hall for integrating Karis into the family and went to her wedding with Rupert Murdoch along with Bianca Jagger and their kids.