By Kim McGuire
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the founders of the rock band the Rolling Stones. Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards have written most of the band’s songs together; their songwriting partnership is one of the most successful in history, and they continue to collaborate musically.
Jagger’s career has spanned over six decades, and he has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock music. His distinctive voice and energetic live performances, along with Richards’ guitar style, have been the Rolling Stones’ trademark throughout the band’s career. Jagger gained notoriety for his romantic involvements and illicit drug use, and has often been portrayed as a countercultural figure.
Jagger was born and grew up in Dartford. He studied at the London School of Economics before abandoning his studies to join the Rolling Stones. In the late 1960s, Jagger starred in the films Performance (1970) and Ned Kelly (1970), to mixed receptions. Beginning in the 1980s, he released a number of solo works, including four albums and the single “Dancing in the Street“, a 1985 duet with David Bowie that reached No. 1 in the UK and Australia and was a top-ten hit in other countries.
In the 2000s, he co-founded a film production company, Jagged Films, and produced feature films through the company beginning with the 2001 historical drama Enigma. He was also a member of the supergroup SuperHeavy from 2009 to 2011. Although relationships with his bandmates, particularly Richards, deteriorated during the 1980s, Jagger has always found more success with the Rolling Stones than with his solo and side projects. He was married to Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias from 1971 to 1978, and has had several other relationships; he has eight children with five women.
In 1989, Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, in 2004, into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones. As a member of the Rolling Stones and as a solo artist, he reached No. 1 on the UK and US singles charts with 13 singles, the top 10 with 32 singles and the top 40 with 70 singles. In 2003, he was knighted for his services to popular music. The genus Jaggermeryx naida and the type species Aegrotocatellus jaggeri are named for him. Jagger is credited with being a trailblazer in pop music and with bringing a style and sexiness to rock and roll that have been imitated and proven influential with subsequent generations of musicians.
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Born
- George Bernard Shaw (playwright) –
- Blake Edwards (director) –
- Jason Robards (actor) –
- Stanley Kubrick (director) –
- Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger (singer) –
- Dorothy Hamill (Olympic gold medal figure skater) –
- Sandra Bullock (actress) –
- Jeremy Piven (actor) –
- Kate Beckinsale (actress) –
Died
- Sam Houston (president of Texas, 1836-38; 1841-44) –
- Eva Peron (wife of Argentine President Juan Peron) –
Events
- Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General–
- New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th state–
- Black Bart made his first stagecoach robbery in California–
- The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan–
- The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MA–
- First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas–
- A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act–
- Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame–
- The Plastiki, a boat made mostly from recycled plastic bottles (12,500 of them), reached Sydney, Australia, to complete a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean–
Weather
- Catskill, New York, and Westfield, Massachusetts, each got 15 inches of rain, causing flash floods and enormous erosion damage–
- The temperature in Salt Lake City soared to an all-time high of 107 degrees F–
- Eastport, Maine, the northeastern most tip of the U.S., reached 96 degrees–
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