FACTBOX-Jagger hits 65!
(Reuters) - Mick Jagger, famed for his pouting lips and swivelling hips, turned the Rolling Stones from a bunch of young rebels into "the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."
The 60s bad boy, ended up a bastion of respectability. With houses around the world, he became -- to quote a Jagger lyric -- "a man of wealth and taste". He turns 65 on Saturday.
Here are some key facts:
* BECOMING A ROCK STAR:
* Born Michael Philip Jagger in Dartford in the south of England on July 26, 1943, the son of a school games teacher and a hairdresser, Jagger grew up in suburban England.
* An avid fan of American blues artists like Muddy Waters Jagger, who never learned to read music, formed his first band in his teens.
-- He had won a place at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) but admitted he didn't take it seriously.
-- At London's Ealing Blues Club, Jagger met Brian Jones who was recruiting for a band he called the Rollin' Stones -- the "g" was to be restored later -- after a Muddy Waters song.
-- By the beginning of 1963, the Stones lineup was Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. In 1964 Jagger was catapulted to fame amid outrage and controversy about his surliness and the length of their hair.
* HITS GALORE:
-- There were riots when the band went to America and it was in 1965 that "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" gave them their first U.S. and British hit.
-- Another hit, "Get Off My Cloud", fully used Jagger's defiant persona. Bad-boy controversy continued with Jagger, Jones and Wyman arrested for urinating at a London petrol station.
-- A stream of hits followed, from "Under My Thumb", to the anarchic "19th Nervous Breakdown" and doom-laden "Paint It Black". Jagger spat out a diatribe of abuse in "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In the Shadow?"
* Jagger's increasing prominence in the group reached crisis point with Jones who left the band in June 1969. He was found dead in his swimming pool the following month.
* MYTHICAL STATUS:
-- In 1970 Jagger made a foray into movies appearing in "Ned Kelly" and the earlier "Performance" followed by the albums "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" and "Sticky Fingers".
-- By the late 1970s, Jagger and the Stones were being written off by the British media switched on by the new Punk era but they responded by releasing the impressive "Some Girls".
-- A "Steel Wheels" tour in 1989 catapulted the band into the record books earning more than $300 million. This was followed by the equally successful "Voodoo Lounge" tour. By the turn of the century, they still had not lost their appetite for touring.
* PRESRVING THE BAND:
-- Film director Martin Scorsese's 2008 "Shine a Light" film of the two 2006 concerts in New York provides few clues as to when the group will lay down their instruments. The veteran rockers rolled back the years and Jagger put in a performance worthy of a man a third of his age.
* PARTNERS:
-- Jagger married Nicaraguan beauty Bianca Perez Macias in 1971. Texan fashion model Jerry Hall, with whom he had four children, became his second wife in 1990. They divorced in 1999.
(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
