Happy Birthday, Mick Jagger! 5 Fantastic Facts You Never Knew About Rolling Stones Legendary Lead Singer
Mick Jagger, the legendary lead singer of The Rolling Stones, one of rock and roll’s most iconic and longest-running bands, celebrates his 74th birthday on Wednesday, July 26. Though Jagger — whose full name is Michael Philip Jagger — was born into a middle class English family in Dartford, Kent, with a schoolteacher father and a mother who was active in Conservative Party politics, he came to be known as one of rock’s greatest rebels.
In fact, when Jagger received a knighthood in 2003, Queen Elizabeth II — at least according to a widely circulated rumor — refused to preform the ceremony herself, due to her revulsion at Jagger’s wild man image.
