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'''Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger''' (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is most famous for being the lead singer and co-founder with guitarists Brian Jones and Keith Richards, and pianist Ian Stewart of the rock n' roll band The Rolling Stones.
Early life
Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Joe, and his paternal grandfather were both teachers; his mother, Eva, an Australian immigrant to England, was an active member of the Conservative Party. He was the older of two sons and was raised to follow in his father's career path. Academically successful, Jagger attended Dartford Grammar School, before entering the London School of Economics on a scholarship. He studied for a degree in accounting and finance, attended for less than a year and did not graduate; dropping out to pursue a musical career.
This decision was not approved by his father and was reluctantly accepted by his mother. Jagger has stated in interviews he did not blame his parents for their mistrust of his choice; even he doubted a life-long career in music was possible.
As a student, Jagger frequented a London club called the Firehouse. At the age of 19, Jagger began performing as a singer. Like Richards and other members of the Rolling Stones, Jagger had no formal musical training and did not know how to read music. He frequented clubs such as the famous Marquee Club or The Ealing Club, and admired the same type of blues musicians that Brian Jones and Keith Richards favoured. In fact, Elmore James was one of the band's early favourites, as well as anything from Chess Records in Chicago.
While Jagger knew Keith Richards as a schoolmate, the songwriters reunited when Richards saw Jagger with a blues record under his arm, and asked him where he purchased it. The group, combined with Jones, Bill Wyman, Ian Stewart, and Charlie Watts formed the Rolling Stones, based on the Muddy Waters tune "Rollin' Stone." Stewart was dropped from the band for not fitting the image desired by manager Andrew Loog Oldham, but still toured with the band as a pianist until his death in 1985. It was Oldham who insisted that Jagger call himself "Mick" rather than "Mike", a name he continued to use among friends; for example, John Lennon calls him Mike in the 1968 film ''
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus''.
The Rolling Stones
Jagger was not an immediate success as lead singer of The Rolling Stones. By
