Bobby Hebb (72)
Darlene Love (69)
(Delirium Vault)- You'd think we might highlight today as the birthday of Kate Beckinsale,
but you're wrong. Today we celebrate Michael Philip Jagger, born today
in 1943. When Mick was 4 he met Keith Richards. They lost touch when
they went into secondary schools and lost touch. But one day in 1960
they accidentally met on the Dartford train line and both realised that
they had an interest in rock n roll combined with blues. Between
1960-1962 The Rolling Stones formed. A record deal was signed in 1964.
Their record company Decca insisted on signing The Stones, keen not to
make the same mistake twice after they'd already refused to sign The
Beatles. Classic Stones tracks (from the first decade) include '(I
can't get no) Satisfaction', 'Let's Spend the night together', 'Sympathy
for the Devil', 'Honky Tonk Woman', 'Wild Horses', 'Brown Sugar' and
'It's Only Rock and Roll'. But isn't DV a movie site? True that, but
Jagger is also an actor. In 1970 Mick Jagger starred in Performance,
an unmistakable cult movie by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell. Jagger
starred as the retired rock star Turner opposite James Fox and Mick even
had his first solo hit which was the soundtrack to the film 'Memo from
Turner'. The movie was so controversial the producers didn't want to
release it at first. It was only the fifth cut that made it to the
screens. In the same year Jagger also played the lead in Ned Kelly. The Maysles documentary Gimme Shelter
is also noteworthy: In 1969 the Stones gave a free concert in Northern
California. About 300,000 people came, and the organizers put Hell's
Angels in charge of security around the stage. Armed with pool cues and
knifes, Angels spent the concert beating up spectators, killing at least
one. The film intercuts performances, violence, Grace Slick and Mick
Jagger's attempts to cool things down, close-ups of young listeners
(dancing, drugged, or suffering Angel shock), and a look at the Stones
later as they watch concert footage and reflect on what happened.
Another Stones documentary, Cocksucker Blues, is even more forbidden and to this day it hasn't been officially released. Honestly, you don't need an excuse to watch Performance
again, but today is an excellent day to do so. Unless you want to spend
the entire day trying to get your hands on a bootleg of Cocksucker
Blues. Trivia you could live without: Attended London School of
Economics.
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