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CLOCKWISE FROM<br />
TOP LEFT: miCk jAggER<br />
AND thE Rolling StonES.<br />
miCk jAggER PERFORMING<br />
DURING THE ROLLING STONE<br />
CONCERT AT glAStonBuRy<br />
fEStivAl OF CONTEMPORARy<br />
PERFORMING ARTS<br />
29 JUNE 2013 © FACUNDO<br />
ARRIzABALAGA/EPA/CORBIS.<br />
MICK JAGGER 20<strong>07</strong>.<br />
142<br />
half century, is how sane he has remained. That<br />
includes his healthy suspicion of drugs. He has indulged,<br />
but was never an addict, deeming cocaine<br />
“a daft, debilitating habit-forming bore, and bad<br />
for the voice” and heroin “quite destructive and<br />
devious”. Recently, on the David Letterman show,<br />
Mick joked “you start playing rock ’n roll so you can<br />
have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing<br />
drugs so you can still play rock ’n roll and have sex”.<br />
The rumour that he has a metal plate in his nose<br />
he dismisses as “rubbish”. As far back as the late<br />
seventies, journalists asked Jagger “Will the Stones<br />
ever tour again?”. Since then, there have been a<br />
dozen world tours, and although the Stones aren’t<br />
yet in the Dylanesque Neverending Tour league, it<br />
looks as the recent concerts in Hyde Park were<br />
anything but a farewell. During a concert, I heard<br />
Keith say “This is better than dying, huh?”. Quite.<br />
Frank Sinatra said there’s a lot to be said for longevity.<br />
Jagger said, dryly “Well, there’s two options really:<br />
either you’re dead or you’re longevity”. But<br />
Mick isn’t one to dwell on the past. “I don’t look at<br />
the clouds of tomorrow through the sunshine of<br />
today. It’s ridiculous: while you’re around, in great<br />
shape, with no chance of extinction, everyone’s<br />
ready to kick you and say “Why don’t you break up,<br />
you’ve outstayed your welcome””. And when it<br />
seems you’re ready to retire, they go “But it’s the<br />
Stones, man, you should go on forever!” People<br />
seem to demand of me that I keep their youthful<br />
memories intact in a glass case specifically reserved<br />
for them and damn the sacrifices I have to<br />
make. They have this conservative picture of us<br />
and don’t want us to change. But I don’t want to<br />
live in the past just for their petty satisfaction. I still<br />
make music “cause it’s fun and challenging. And I<br />
love the warmth of an audience, rolling towards<br />
me in waves”. Jagger was always fiercely competitive<br />
- keeping one eye on the competition - what<br />
was David Bowie doing, or Prince, or Michael Jackson,<br />
or whoever seemed a fitting sparring partner<br />
at the time. So, this year we find Jagger the elder,<br />
the peer, the survivor, the legend, the icon, blessed<br />
with an undiminished lust for life. Peter Pan Jagger<br />
the unstoppable. We’re lucky to have him. To<br />
quote Mr zimmerman: may he stay forever young.<br />
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