Mick Jagger @ 65.

"Mick Jagger's birthday could never be like any other 65-year-old's," writes John Walsh in the Independent. "In fact he will mark his bus-pass acquisition day by announcing that the Rolling Stones are to leave EMI, to sign up with Universal Music; the Stones will also win control over all their albums since the 1970s.... Since 1963, Jagger has been the greatest frontman in rock'n'roll. He is popularly thought to be a tireless British Casanova, an indefatigable swordsman of the boudoir, a cricket-loving health fanatic whose youthfulness defies medical science. What's sometimes missed, in the chorus of oohs and aahs that greets his every performance and paternity suit, is what an astute businessman Jagger has always been.... 'Mick Jagger is a really nice bunch of guys,' Keith Richards once said."

More from Alan Hamilton (London Times) and Claire Smith (Scotsman).

Posted by dwhudson at July 26, 2008 5:31 AM