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yer its from July, but it is still a great read
enjoy !!
from : http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/16/1058035068328.html
Mick Jagger.
The most famous lips in the world turn 60 next week. But what's Sir Michael Philip Jagger like off stage? John Hind asks those who know.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
Former girlfriend
"Once, he came straight off stage to the hotel where I was waiting and he was absolutely terrifying. He was like somebody possessed. I don't think he even knew who I was. He still had his make-up on and there was a froth of spittle around his mouth and his eyes were violent and he was making grunting sounds. He didn't say a word; just those god-awful grunts. He picked me up and slammed me against the wall. Several times. Afterwards, I don't think he even remembered it."
RICHARD NEVILLE
editor of Oz
"When he came to Sydney in 1965 I had deep, deep envy for his fame and rock'n'roll energy. He was just unutterably groovy. And he'd walked into the Gaslash club having spent the night with one of my girlfriends. The moment he walked in, with this gorgeous Asian woman on his arm, and Route 66 playing on the sound system, I just felt absolutely at the complete cosmic centre of grooviness. I've been trying to win that moment back ever since. Some years later, in my Hustler moment, I acquired and published in Oz some nude frames excised from his film Performance. Let others be undignified and say he has an excellent-sized penis. All I'll say is he had nothing to be ashamed of."
HARVEY GOLDSMITH
Promoter
"Nothing happens without him saying yes or no. Nothing. There's no one better at masterminding PR than he is: about the band, him, relationships. His life is virtually in the press every day of the week - and it all comes from him. He goes to the right openings, the right galleries, the right parties - and he doesn't go to the wrong ones. And to some extent he's seen with the right women, whoever they might be at the time. Frankly, he's a complete control freak."
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Aristocrat and designer
"I think of Mick and me in his kitchen looking through the school brochures to see where our children should go to school. There is a very serious side to Mick. If you are fundamentally serious - like he is, totally fundamentally serious, about his work, life, health, family - then one can pretend to be frivolous. But he's serious, serious, serious."
LUCIANA MORAD
Model and mother of Mick's son, Lucas
"My God, he's funny. And you know, he really likes women. He can drive me crazy, just by the tone of his voice. But it's more than that. I don't know what it is, but he has got it, and he knows it, and that's the worst part. One thing I will say about Mick is that he gives Lucas imaginative toys. Mick always knows what will please a child - I suppose he's had plenty of practice."
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JOHN RICHARDSON
Art historian, Picasso biographer
"I've stayed with Mick at his chateau, La Fourchette, and that's where you see a very different Mick. He got Alvilde Lees-Milne to lay out a marvellous formal walled garden and he became completely part of the garden, knew every single thing about all the plants, the flowers, the way the fruit trees were espaliered. There is nothing contrived about his wonderful country-house life. Big trestle tables under the chestnut trees, with nanny and kids at one end and adults at the other - the children having buns, the adults smoking joints. Absolute paradise. I remember Mick was training for one of his tours there too - he used a dead straight local stretch of country road so he could practise running backwards very fast. You'd see a French farmer resting on his shovel or his hoe, watching the head of Mick Jagger above the hedge going back and forth, very fast, backwards."
SIR BOB GELDOF
"I was eight years old, it was 1964, and I had my head stuck through the fire exit of the Adelphi Theatre in Dublin. Mick and Keith were balancing on the edge of the stage, pushing each other like kids, while Andrew Loog Oldham was in a back seat with his feet up, telling them to get on with their sound check. And Mick turned around and howled 'F- Off!' to him. It was f-ing thrilling for me. I took home a cup and saucer that Mick had drunk out of - and I've kept it to this day. When I socialise with him now and we're having a cuppa, I love him still but there's no f-ing way I'd take his cup away with me."
MARSHA HUNT
Mother of Mick's first daughter, Karis
"Mick and I only had approximately nine months together. But had it only been one night it would have been enough. Know what I mean?"
BIANCA JAGGER
First wife
"I am so romantic that for me the greatest book will always be The Little Prince. I shouldn't say it, because he is so arrogant, but when I met Mick he became for me the Little Prince. The day I grew up - the day I didn't need a father figure any more - was when I fell in love with Mick. Because he was an older brother - he was no longer the father. Mick taught me that being vulnerable and needing somebody and loving somebody and being able to say that is not weak. Because he is capable of doing it without losing his dignity."
JERRY HALL
Ex-wife
"Once we were in Vienna when it was my birthday. We went to a place Mick said he remembered from the 1960s; it was called the Moulin Rouge and it turned out to be a whorehouse. It was pretty seedy. There was hardly anyone there - maybe this one old guy. But there was an oriental-looking transvestite performing when we came in and it was one of Mick's songs, As Tears Go By, the one he wrote for Marianne Faithfull. So Mick got up and sang it with her and all the girls came running out of the room upstairs to watch, thrilled. I guess they didn't get much action around there."
DICKIE BIRD
Umpire
"Mick's a down-to-earth lad who enjoys his cricket. He loves it, he loves it. I get on well with him. He knows his game, he knows cricket, he's tremendous talking about the game, he's a clued-up lad. Mick did wonders for the game by getting Sir Paul Getty, an American, interested in it. Aye, he loves his cricket does that lad Mick."
ORSOLYA DESSY
Hungarian porn star
"He's a deliciously sensitive man. He made sure I had a wonderful time. He said I had a lovely bottom. He was so charming, polite and considerate. I asked him his favourite city and he replied, 'Budapest - because if I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have met you.' Such a true gentleman."
MRS ROLLS-WILSON
(As Mick calls her) Neighbour in Richmond
"When he moved in he popped round the back with a cup, asking for a cup of sugar as a way of introducing himself - 'Hello, I'm Mick, your new neighbour.' He's no woe at all. And his children are beautifully behaved. If all neighbours were as well behaved as Mick Jagger, there'd be fewer problems in this world. He looks very young for his age. When you see Michael playing with his kids in the garden, from the back, ohh, he looks like a firm young man. Oh, incredibly fit he is. I've no complaints at all."
BARBARA CHARONE
Ex-Stones press officer
"One evening several EMI executives came to the studio to meet the Stones and listen to their first album for EMI Europe. One resembled a bank manager while the other had perfected the record company corporate image of what is hip. Jagger played them a 50-minute version of a reggae song called Jah Wonderful, seriously insisting it was the album. 'Actually,' Jagger comforted the bank manager-type, 'we could cut it down to 45 minutes.' "
NICKY HASLAM
Interior designer
"Oh God, he's the most learned man I know. Practically the best read I've ever met. And you'll go to a church lost in a wood in France and he'll date it, saying, 'I think this is May 1740'. And he collects honey from his own hive of bees - I've seen him do it with huge relish, in the full gear. It's amazing what he can do."
CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES
Photographer
"You never escape the fact he has the most famous face in the world. He once came to stay with me in Yorkshire and on Saturday morning we went to Driffield, the local town. And we were in Boots the Chemist, and Mick was standing by the counter when a woman came up to him and said: 'What are you doing here?' And he looked at her and said, very fast: 'I always do my shopping in Driffield on a Saturday.' And then 10 minutes later the entire population of Driffield descended on Boots and we had to get out of town."
DAVID HEPWORTH
Publisher
"It's one of the most astonishing things you can ever do, to walk into rooms behind Mick. Because wherever he goes the room stops. It's the sheer level of fame. And it means that he hardly ever has a conversation which isn't about him. He's always at the centre. And he's incredibly sharp at working out what's just the minimum he can give. His idea is that what people want out of a famous person is being given just a little glimmer of the massive celebrity and legendary status. I attended a Test match with him in Barbados - which he brought a little packed lunch along to each day - and saw his beach-hut at Bathsheba, which he described as at 'the chi-chi end of the downmarket'. But you spend time with him and you feel you haven't got any nearer."
CHARLOTTE EDWARDES
Journalist
"A friend of Mick's had asked if I'd like to join them at Tina Brown's Bafta party. Cristal champagne appeared, but he stuck with mineral water and said: 'I've eaten already; I had spaghetti and fish-fingers at home with the kids, I skipped the ice-cream.' He said he took 19 vitamins a day and spent most nights cuddled up with a hot water bottle with a Burberry cover. He also said, 'I think it's vulgar to spend more than 4 million on a house'."
BELLA FREUD
Fashion designer
"Years ago I made a coat for Keith Richards and visited the studio to do a fitting, with a sewing friend of mine. We sat there spellbound watching them make music. Then Mick, vaguely bored, started to try to flirt and dance with us, and we were far too terrified to respond. 'Bloody hell, you lot,' he exclaimed, 'you're a bunch of bloody nuns sitting in the background.' I was quite pleased, really - I felt I'd kept my integrity in spite of being completely dazzled."
MARY WALDEGRAVE
Housewife and mother
"He's very gallant. Once we were both staying in the same country house party and they had only a couple of records, one of which contained lots of slightly obscure Stones songs that I like: The Singer Not the Song, When Blue Turns to Grey, that sort of thing. And When Blue Turns to Grey came on, I said, 'I really love this one.' And he said: 'Well, let's dance to it then.' And then, as we whirled round the floor, he smiled and said, 'But I wouldn't have thought you were old enough to remember it'."
PAUL ROBINSON
Insurance salesman
"I was a spectator at Trent Bridge and saw Mick in the bar and went up to him to try to get an autograph. I said, 'Excuse me, Mr Jagger, but would you . . .' And he jumped to his feet and said, 'Have the next dance?' and proceeded to waltz me around the room."
JOHN SANDILANDS
Writer
"The Radio Times arranged for me to interview Mick in LA. Needless to say, it didn't happen as arranged. We located his hotel suite at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and the most appalling animal noises were coming from behind the door. We knocked and he opened it in his underpants. We said, 'We're from the Radio Times in London, Mr Jagger.' He looked us up and down for a minute and said, 'Blimey, is all this coming out of my licence money?' (Later) the photographer couldn't move his tripod because it became snared in some knickers on the floor. We departed utterly wrecked."
KEITH BADGERY
Ex-driver
"Mick swans around, jumping on private jets or Concorde. Yet he'll moan about how much a hay-fever drug costs in Britain and wait until he goes to the States to buy it."
TOBY YOUNG
Author
"I 'snogged' and later took out a girl who gently explained to me that she couldn't really get involved with me because she was involved with another man, an extremely famous and virile man who had a bit of a reputation as a ladies' man but whose friends had all told her that it was different with her, serious. She said he had 'the sexual stamina of a 17-year-old boy'. Then to my shock it turned out that the third corner of this love triangle was Mick Jagger. Passed over for a grandfather - bit of a blow."
AHMET ERTEGUN
Founder of Atlantic Records
"My first thought was that he just looked great, wonderful. You see, both women and men took to Mick. Baryshnikov felt the same as me. I once ran into Baryshnikov in a Washington hotel lobby and invited him to a Stones concert and he was flabbergasted. Afterwards he told Mick, 'There's only two people who can dance like that - you and me'."
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