He plans to celebrate it in style, like a king. And in a way he is. The satanic majesty of him Mick Jagger, the undisputed leader of The Rolling Stones, turns 80 today in such enviable shape that more than one would say that decades ago he signed a pact with the devil. Not only is he still active, giving his all on stage, but this very month of July he has announced a wedding with his current sentimental partner, the former American dancer and choreographer Melanie Hamrick, 36, mother of his eighth child, Deveraux, born in the 2016.
But before Jagger walks down the aisle for the third time (the wedding date has yet to be revealed), this marked anniversary arrives with a lavish party to fit the occasion. And it is that 80 years are not celebrated every day and less with so much energy.
The incombustible interpreter of such mythical themes as Satisfaction or Angie has rented the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, covering 1.6 hectares on the banks of the Thames, to host his 300 guests, including his eternal companions, Keith Richards and Ron Wood, as well as surely Bill Wyman, 86, the bassist who left the band in 1997 and who is collaborating with her again to participate in the next album dedicated to drummer Charlie Watts, who died in August 2021.
It is also expected that the two living members of what was his rival band, the beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Star, will join this tribute in the form of a record.
Born in Dartford as Michael Philip Jagger, the singer, songwriter and music producer from Kent County was already showing his ways as a child as a member of the church choir. From angelic melodies he soon passed to devilish rhythms and before he turned 19, on July 12, 1962, he already led the famous band in its first appearance under the name Rollin’ Stones at the Club Marquee in London. Two years later his first number one would arrive, the song It’s All Over Now. Since then, the success has not ceased nor has the life of the band, which has become the longest-lived in rock.
With more than sixty years of career behind him, Jagger can boast of being a living legend along with his colleagues, especially that Keith Richards also born in Datford with whom he went to primary school and who at the end of the year will turn, like him, the 80s. Perhaps she no longer moves with such impetus on stage, but on the other hand, there are critics who claim that she sings better.
It is never too late to learn or start over, and Jagger has not stopped trying in the sentimental field. His recent engagement is good proof of this. Before, long before, in 1971, he made his debut as a husband with the Nicaraguan model Bianca Pérez Mora Macías in a dream wedding that took place in the mythical town of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, the same one where Brigitte Bardot takes refuge. As a result of the marriage, Jade was born, although this girl was not his first daughter. The previous year he had debuted as a father with his eldest daughter Karis, who he had with actress Marsha Hunt.
The first divorce came in 1978. The reason: the singer’s constant infidelities. His love life was as intense as his heated interpretations. In 1990 he married supermodel Jerry Hall, Helmut Newton’s muse. On this occasion, the ceremony had an even more magical setting, Bali, and was held according to the Hindu rite. The relationship between the two, however, came from much further away. In fact, it started a year before her first divorce.
With Hall, to whom he dedicated the song Miss You, he lived his longest romantic relationship and was also the woman with whom he had the most children: Elizabeth (in 1984), James (in 1985), Georgia May (in 1992) and Gabriel ( in 1997). But in 1999 the break came again due to infidelities.
Jagger had an affair with the Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez Morad, with whom the musician had his seventh child, Lucas, that same year. But the relationship was short-lived, and in 2001 he began dating fashion designer L’Wren Scott, who was found dead in 2014 in her Chelsea apartment, hanged by a scarf. Just three months later, Jagger began dating his current wife, Melanie Hamrick.
With such a large offspring, which is completed with five grandchildren, it is the case that his last son is two years younger than his great-granddaughter, granddaughter of his daughter Jade.
Decorated with the title of Knight of the Order of the British Empire for more than twenty years, this irreverent servant of rock, who now leads a much more orderly life than in his youth with exercise routines and healthy eating, has recently suffered some ailment . In 2019 they had to have heart surgery and the covid forced him to suspend a couple of performances last year.
However, he was fully recovered at the famous concert in Hyde Park on June 25, 2022 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a band that stands the test of time, like this incombustible Jagger who still wants to keep rolling like a stone until the pending is over
