Review: Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger by Philip Norman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It seems like a lot of biographies in this class focus on the seminal, important earliest years and fade out with nothing to say later, as in Life. (That autobiography gets pilloried as full of lies, such as Richards cuckolding Jagger with Marianne Faithfull.) As cannot be avoided, this is basically a Rolling Stones biography covering individual albums and tours. Along with also painting Mick as a heartless womanizer and ruthless business partner this goes deep into non-music parts of Mick's life, such as the Redlands bust and convincing arguments that it was an FBI-MI5 orchestration involving later New Wave impresario David Jove as the mysterious Acid King. There is much dirt on the philandering and infidelities and Jagger children. Mick's solo career gets coverage, though not as much details as the elusive acting career. The book goes up to 2010 and the formation of SuperHeavy.

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