Mick Jagger shows no sign of slowing down at 80

It is high time they hung up their instruments and microphones. The music industry is a young man's game and nobody wants to see geriatric rockers like the Rolling Stones in Japan when there is countless superior electronica, industrial, noise and improv to be enjoyed at local live houses. Save your money and save your eardrums. Mick's skin is shriveled and wrinkled as are his vocal chords.

We need to think about what kind of world we’re leaving behind for Keith Richards.

Happy Birthday to Jagger. Thanks for all the music and all the years.

I too, Enjoy discovering new music and artists and with streaming and the plethora of live houses in Japan, it's certainly the place to do it. To call it superior however is wrong. Different, Yes.

When your 'industrial' compositions of now, are still being played 60 years from now then get back to me.

Saw the Rolling Stones in Seattle and Mick just keeps going for three hours on stage. At 80 years old, I will be fishing by the lake drinking a beer with a fat round stomach. Go Go Mick!

The music industry is a young man's game and nobody wants to see geriatric rockers like the Rolling Stones 

In 2021- "Rolling Stones had the highest-grossing tour of the year, earning over $115 million and selling over 516,000 tickets for 12 shows across 11 cities". Harry Styles came in a distant 2nd.

Music is a young man's game, eh?

Good luck to them.

Jagger - and all of The Rolling Stones - have definitely found the secret to eternal youth. The reality is they will have 20 year old girls throwing themselves at them when they are next in Tokyo!

I can see them playing well into their 90s. Why give up the rock 'n' roll lifestyle because some say they should?

Rock on!

@MarcLowe You seem to not understand just how excellent the music from Jagger and the Stone's generation is. The reason they sell out arenas to this day shows a greatness you likely won't see from this generation's stars in 50 years time.

I don't know what makes you so bitter toward the great Mick Jagger, but feel bad for you.

Let's not forget Keith! After all the horrendous alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse that should have killed him long ago, his longevity is a phenomenon (and source of many memes)

@timeon So true on Keith Richards, a guitarist who's greatness gets dismissed by some, but anyone who's played guitar understands his usage of Open G tuning is genius. At the Steel Wheels tour, it was a bit of a turning point in his health as he was absolutely superb with clarity I'd not seen in him on tours such as the Miss You tour of '78. He was spot on and energetic and that health has continued on since about 1990.

Plus he played Jack Sparrow's dad! lol.

It's his careful life style, the regular medication administered by women and those "Jumpin' Jack" genes, but the way he's still carrying on at 80 suggests a heart-attack on stage is what Jagger expects and maybe wants before the curtain comes down on the Rolling Stones whose music from years back can still excite and make a man's blood flow in the veins.

the way he's still carrying on at 80 suggests a heart-attack on stage is what Jagger expects and maybe wants before the curtain comes down on the Rolling Stones

Nope. Mick will live forever.

If there weren't still popular with no demand, then nobody would pay $$$ and go to their shows. They'd be relegated to playing retro-medleys in dive bars. Their songs and albums still sell and are downloaded thousands of times even 50yrs after being originally released. For me it was the early 70's Stones with Mick Taylor, especially their live shows, that represents their zenith. Pure in-your-face rock'n'roll.

I think a lot of current bands, singers and musicians could learn a lot from bands in the 60's and 70's in terms of how to perform live which was critical to selling their music. Going on grueling long, major tours was the only form of promotion. Now so many rely on autotune to stay in pitch live, play far fewer shows, and don't need to rely solely on live shows to promote their music. And it shows.

Great band. Keep going as long as you want lads.

The Stones were always about the grotesque and nothing has changed.

I admire the music, the rolling stones, not Mick Jagger.

My father gave me his record collection, I have a Pro-Ject Debut Pro turntable with a vintage Quad 303 Power Amplifier 33 Pre/Tuner......

Among the collection is an original Exile on main Street, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers.

Mick Jagger was never knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles carried out the ceremony

Queen Elizabeth II was officially in the hospital having cartilage removed from her knee......

Both Jagger and Queen Elizabeth II despised each other over the alleged relationship, drug filled, treatment of her sister Princess Margaret.

Tony Blair nominated Jagger for a Knighthood, Keith Richard, David Bowie were horrified aghast at Jaggers acceptance,

Jagger once a stanch opponent of monarchy, referred to Queen Elizabeth II as quote “chief witch” 

Still the group certainly/undoubtedly contribution to British popular music history is equal to the Beatles.

Only the good die young, so I am told.

@Moonraker. Maybe listen to a few Stones' songs before you spew off wrong information: Angie. You Can't Always Get What You Want. Wild Horses. She's a Rainbow. Ruby Tuesday. Streets of Love.

Mick Jagger once sang "what a drag it is getting old" but the most senior swinger in town shows little sign of slowing down as he turns 80 on Wednesday.

Really? They looked like very embarrassing old men wobbling about on the stage in their last tour.

Good considering their age but if you just walked in and didn't know who they were, you'd probably laugh and walk out.

Good considering their age but if you just walked in and didn't know who they were, you'd probably laugh and walk out.

Right.

Until they started playing, then you'd do a U turn, and realize a younger mindset with the Stones a condescending opinion based just on looks.

No denial Rolling Stones still fill the arenas, those tickets are not in any way let go at bargain basement prices.

For sure.

Good considering their age but if you just walked in and didn't know who they were, you'd probably laugh and walk out

Terrible attitude.

You’d wait and listen.

I used to turn up at folk nights with my guitar and I’ve seen and joined in with elderly musicians who were still s##t hot. Blew me right out of the water.

Wait, listen and even learn.

@itsonlyrocknroll: well you certainly have the name for this discussion! It's only rock and roll, but I like, I like it, Yes, I do!!

That’s what cocaine does to you.

Among the collection is an original Exile on main Street, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers

Great stuff - hope Let it Bleed is in there too. Brilliant album.

I think I’m missing something with Exile on Main Street. Many love it but I can’t get into it.

sunfunbun

I do enjoy the band. seriously, never been able to fully appreciate Jagger.

Or his politics.

‘Something had gone horribly wrong’: me, Mick Jagger and the lost autobiography

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/24/something-had-gone-horribly-wrong-me-mick-jagger-and-the-lost-autobiography

Plus ......

Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/04/mick-jagger-philip-norman-review

I have read the Philip Norman paperback.

The one chance I had to see them was in 1992, in August (Tokyo) and they were playing OUTSIDE for ¥8000? (Cheapest ticket), couldn’t afford that.

Sunfunbun. Oh, I know all the songs. I've been round the block a few times. For most of their career I was there at the time. The most overrated group in the history of rock, though also with some very good songs. Satisfaction is a great and so is Gimme Shelter. But I always hated Jagger's fake American accent. Most of the albums have two or three known songs, which are quite good, and the rest is trite filler.

Jagger has been drug free for decades does daily training. Richard’s has given up drugs.

First time I watched them play was in the 1960s Many times since then even in small London clubs.

Jimizo, I have searched high and low to find a recording of this BBC 2 documentary.

The Stones and the true story of Exile on Main St

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/25/stones-exile-on-main-street

How Keith Richards survived to this day is a miracle, and still tour.

Mick Taylor's licks were the magic: "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" is the acme of a live rock concert.

Best Stones album? Their Satanic Majesty Requests.

Really look it up its excellent

Happy Birthday Mick and keep on going.

Great music for long drives. In college me and a buddy drove from San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas Mexico and had Rolling Stones blasting most of the way.

Mick Jagger made the Stones happen and became rich by taking control of the money.

wallaceToday  01:53 pm JST

*Jagger has been drug free for decades does daily training. *Richard’s has given up drugs.

First time I watched them play was in the 1960s Many times since then even in small London clubs.

No he hasn't. He still smokes his daily breakfast spliff....probably followed by lunch and dinner spliffs. All the more power to him! One reason why he's still alive is that he was always able to get the highest quality drugs.

The Stones were always about the grotesque and nothing has changed.

Grotesque may be in the eye of the beholder, but if you live long enough, you're bound to get an eyeful of it and will have to admit that we primates with a human brain are indisputably a grotesque species. With their super-star antics the Stones have certainly been no role models, but their testosterone-fueled lyrics and aggro-filled guitar riffs are only rock 'n' roll and I like it. I wouldn't want to speak for the ladies, though.

Jagger with the help of personal trainer Torje Eike, trains up to six days per week. This includes running 8 miles a day, swimming, kickboxing, and cycling. Sir Mick has said: “I train five or six days a week, but I don't go crazy.

In an 2010 interview

Former junkie Richards gave up his heroin habit in 1978 and eventually stopped using cocaine after an accident in 2006 in which he fell out of a tree, requiring brain surgery and a metal plate in his skull.

'I've given up everything now - which is a trip in itself.'

Keith Richards has revealed he still often kickstarts his day smoking cannabis.

Keith Richards revealed he quietly gave up smoking two years ago by going cold turkey and that he didn't miss his 55-year habit. The Rolling Stones guitarist's lifestyle change came soon after he cut back on his alcohol intake after finding it was no longer enjoyable.Mar 14, 2022

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-richards-quit-smoking/

The heavy drugs are gone from the Stones.

Wallace, I doubt if the real Mick Jagger will ever break cover, the rock'n'roller or music entrepreneur/empresario

However Jagger turned to..........

Prince Rupert Loewenstein obituary

Aristocratic merchant banker who made the Rolling Stones rich......

Loewenstein, a Bavarian aristocrat and London-based merchant banker, began handling the group's accounts after being introduced to Mick Jagger in 1968 by the art dealer Christopher Gibbs, a mutual friend. Jagger was concerned that the group's then-manager, the pugnacious New Jersey accountant Allen Klein, was depriving the Stones of most of their earnings.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/prince-rupert-loewenstein

@Marc Lowe....Hahaha! How/why would a lifelong musician retire? Should painters stop at age 65?? Crazy.

I know it's only Rock'nRoll...but guess what?

Still rocking like time is on his side

his regime of running, kick-boxing, cycling and yoga has maintained his svelte figure and longevity as an energetic showman

and maybe yes, it is. Wow! He'll probably outlive me.

Plenty more satisfaction to be gotten from this band yet.

@Marc Lowe. How low could you go!! Electronica music LMFAO hit one key on a appregiator programmed keyboard and take some acid and you can call that psychedelic music! LMFAO GO Marc GO!

80 years old, 80! Can you believe? Same as my dear old dad and he can’t dance about a stage, that’s for certain, lol. He uses a stick you see.

‘Well, Mick is a legend in his own right really, nit the greatest signer but has an amazing stage presence and seemingly still does. Good luck to the fella as long as he’s having a good time.

Rolling stones have written many great songs.

There's something about music from that generation that is missing in today's music.

Mick is up there with the GREATIST entertainers of ALL TIME and is one of the few who has kept "IT" ! Keith's body is "SOUSED" so he hasn't aged in the past 40 years.