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27th March 2006 10:54 AM

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Rolling Stones’ inspiration traced

Matthew Beard
in London

March 26. — The Who may have dabbled in rock opera and Paul McCartney collaborated with a philharmonic orchestra, but the Rolling Stones have always been reluctant to allow classical strains to intrude on their raunchy brand of rock ‘n’ roll.

But now it can be revealed that their frontman may have been turning his back on a classical heritage so rich that, in an unwittingly merger of legendary musical monickers, one of his forebears was named Johann Sebastian Jagger. The tribute to the 18th century German composer was found by genealogists researching the Jagger family tree. They found that Charles Jagger, an ancestor of the Dartford-born rock aristocrat, was a professor of music and a classical composer of such renown that he was commissioned to write the wedding score for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Such was his enthusiasm for Bach, he named one of his sons Johann Sebastian. He then moved to Whitehaven in the late 1880s, playing at the town’s Theatre Royal and teaching piano and organ. The existence of the Stones’ frontman’s musical heritage emerged as a Cumbrian historian began researching the life of Charles’ cousin, David Jagger, the great grandfather of Sir Mick. They found that David, a printer from Morley, Yorkshire, married three times, the third of which, in 1879, produced David Ernest, Sir Mick’s grandfather. Since they formed more than four decades ago, the Stones have embraced rock ‘n’ roll, electric blues and country music.

Possible exceptions are You Can’t Always Get What You Want, on the album Let it Bleed, featuring London Bach boys’ choir and the violin accompaniment to Moonlight Mile on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers. — The Independent

28th March 2006 09:05 AM

Ten Thousand Motels

I've got this record called the .... damn I can't remember the name. But it's a "classical" interpretation to 8-10 Stones songs. These songs actually lend themselves quite nicely to that....if that's your bag. I've had the record for about 5 years and only listened to it two or three times and haven't got a clue where I got it.

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