Mick Jagger Biography

Birth of Michael Philip Jagger

Birth of Mick Jagger, later lead singer of the Rolling Stones.

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger both attended the Dartford Maypole County Primary School, the two become reacquainted while Richards is attending the Sidcup Art School and Jagger is a student at the London School of Economics

The Rolling Stones lineup settles down to Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman

Performs at the Rolling Stones's first show at the Marquee Club.

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman. The group plays its first gig at the Marquee club in London, billed as "The Rollin Stones"

Releases I Wanna Be Your Man with the Rolling Stones as an early hit.

The Rolling Stones release their debut UK album.

Prompted by Oldham, Jagger and Richards become more prolific songwriters and the US version of 1965s Out of Our Heads contains seven original songs, including the classic "(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction"

The Rolling Stones release The Last Time, an early Jagger-Richards hit.

Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"

The Rolling Stones release the UK version of Out of Our Heads.

The Rolling Stones release Aftermath, their first album of entirely Jagger-Richards songs.

Jagger & Richards are arrested & charged with drug possession after a highly publicised raid on Richards country house, during which it was alleged that Marianne Faithfull was found naked except

"We Love You" is released, a thank you for loyalty shown by their fans during their drug trials, seen as a barbed attack on their perceived persecutors: the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police. A new psychedelic album, which Jagger envisions as the groups equivalent of the Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, eventually be released as Their Satanic Majesties Request, during a threat of imprisonment

The Rolling Stones release Between the Buttons in Britain.

Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man".

Rolling Stones release the album, "Beggars Banquet".

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots.

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots. Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man"

The Rolling Stones "Rock and Roll Circus", part concert, part circus-act film organized by the band, It goes unreleased for 25 years because Mick Jagger is unhappy with the bands performance compared to other bands in the film, such as Jethro Tull

Sympathy for the Devil appears on Beggars Banquet.

Rolling Stones release the album, "Let It Bleed"

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him.

Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty-year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

Despite Brian Jones sudden death, the Hyde Park concert goes ahead in front of an audience of 200,000 fans, with Jagger reading from Shelleys Adonais and releasing hundreds of (mostly dead) butterflies by way of tribute to the l

Honky Tonk Women is released, coinciding with the death of Jones, and remains the bands last number 1 single in the UK

The Rolling Stones perform a free concert in Hyde Park, two days after his Brian Jones death, before the concert began, Jagger read excerpts from "Adonais", a poem by Percy Shelley about the death of his friend John Keats

Reads from Shelley's Adonais at the Stones in the Park tribute after Brian Jones's death.

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Performance". Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Ned Kelly"

Rolling Stones release the album, "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out"

Appears in the film Performance, expanding his work beyond the Rolling Stones.

Birth of Karis Jagger, Marsha Hunt, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Karis Jagger

Rolling Stones release the album, "Sticky Fingers"

Rolling Stones release the album, "Sticky Fingers"

Birth of Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger, Jerry Hall, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger

The Rolling Stones launch their own label with the release of Brown Sugar.

Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, cannot remember her whole name so she becomes known as Bianca Jagger

Birth of Jade Jagger, Bianca Jagger, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Jade Jagger

Rolling Stones release the album, "Milestones"

Rolling Stones release the single, "Tumbling Dice" which reaches no 5 in the UK charts

Rolling Stones release the single, "Tumbling Dice" which reaches no 5 in the UK charts

The Rolling Stones release Exile on Main Street.

Rolling Stones release the album, "Exile On Main Street"

The Rolling Stones sue their former manager Alan Klein for "falsely representing the group with intent to deceive"

Mick Jagger sings on Carly Simon's "You're so Vain"

Martha Hunt files an application in a London Court claiming Mick Jagger is the father of her daughter Karis

The Rolling Stones release Goats Head Soup.

"Goat's Head Soup" is released, reaches no 1 in the UK and US album charts

Rolling Stones release a compilation, "Made in the Shade"

Rolling Stones release the album, "Black and Blue"

Rolling Stones release the album, "Black and Blue"

The Rolling Stones release Some Girls.

Mick Jagger releases a solo album, "Shes the Boss". Mick Jagger & David Bowie record a cover of Martha & the Vandellas "Dancing in the Street" for the Live Aid organisation

Mick Jagger releases a solo album, "Shes the Boss". Mick Jagger & David Bowie record a cover of Martha & the Vandellas "Dancing in the Street" for the Live Aid organisation

Birth of James Leroy Augustin Jagger, Jerry Hall, gives birth to Mick Jagger's son James Leroy Augustin Jagger. Birth of Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger, Jerry Hall, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger

Mick Jagger releases a solo album, "Primitive Cool"

Mick Jagger marries Jerry Hall

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Freejack"

Mick Jagger releases a solo album, "Wandering Spirit"

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Bent"

Birth of Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger, Jerry Hall, gives birth to Mick Jagger's son Gabriel Luke Beauregard

Rolling Stones release the album, "Bridges to Babylon"

Birth of Lucas Jagger, Luciana Gimenez, gives birth to Mick Jagger's son Lucas Jagger

Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall split after Jagger confesses he had fathered a child Luciana Morad

Mick Jagger releases a solo album, "Goddess in the Doorway"

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "The Man From Elysian Fields"

Mick Jagger is knighted

Rolling Stones release the album, "A Bigger Bang"