Mick Jagger Biography and Timeline

Birth of Michael Philip Jagger

Birth of Michael Philip Jagger

Birth of Mick Jagger

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

Role range: 1943-

Little Boy Blue

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

Rolling Stones, The

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

Rolling Stones, The

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

First Marquee Club Show

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

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

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"

Rolling Stones, The

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

I Wanna Be Your Man

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

Role range: 1943-

The Rolling Stones Album

The Rolling Stones release their debut UK album.

Role range: 1943-

The Last Time

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

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"

Out of Our Heads

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

Role range: 1943-

Rolling Stones, The

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"

Aftermath

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

Role range: 1943-

Between the Buttons

The Rolling Stones release Between the Buttons in Britain.

Role range: 1943-

Arrest of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

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

Rolling Stones, The

"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

Rolling Stones, The

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"

Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil appears on Beggars Banquet.

Role range: 1943-

Rock and Roll Circus

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

Rolling Stones, The

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, The

Rolling Stones release the album, "Beggars Banquet".

Rolling Stones, The

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.

Rolling Stones, The

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.

Rolling Stones, The

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.

Rolling Stones, The

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

Death of Mick Jagger

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

Hyde Park Concert

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

Role range: 1943-

Death of Mick Jagger

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

Rolling Stones, The

Rolling Stones release the album, "Let It Bleed"

Performance

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

Role range: 1943-

Birth of Karis Jagger

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

Performance

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

Rolling Stones, The

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

Birth of Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger

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

Rolling Stones Records

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

Role range: 1943-

Marriage

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

Birth of Jade Jagger

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

Rolling Stones, The

Rolling Stones release the album, "Sticky Fingers"