Donald Clarke: As Michael Jagger reaches an impossible 80th birthday, let us ponder his greatest gift to the world.
The Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger at the Veltins Arena in Germany in 2022. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images
Anyway, Mick Jagger was 80 on Wednesday. This scarcely seems possible. It is like learning Bosco or Paddington is 80. As with those fictional characters, Sir Michael seems – let’s not look too close – forever manacled to the age at which the wider world first met him. The same year as of the drugs bust, the Sunday Times Magazine asked artist Michael Leonard to create an impression of what Jagger would look like 30 years hence.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards while making Jean Luc Godard’s movie Sympathy for the Devil, aka One Plus One in 1968. Photograph: Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images That was not how things worked out. At the age of 54, Jagger was a marginally more creased variation on the 1967 edition. He was still touring with the Stones. Rather than dressing like a faded silent star, he sported lurid tracksuits while leaping explosively round the world’s great stadiums. Twenty-six years later there isn’t much to add. It is less than 12 months since the Stones worked through their hits on the 60th anniversary tour. The face still looked like a friendly old saddle.
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