British musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of the Rolling Stones. One of the pop world’s biggest stars, he has appeared in over 20 films, including movies based on his life and band. While continuing to tour and release albums with The Stones, Jagger has also had a successful solo career since 1985.
The Rolling Stones played their first gig on 12 July 1962. Their music draws crowds of all ages and some of their concerts have been noted for showing rock culture at its worst, causing orgies of violence, drugs, victims of injuries and a few deaths. Each band member is a multi-millionaire many times over. Jagger reportedly earned $25 million from 1971-1978 alone.
A middle-class street kid, Jagger was always driven, always felt that he was special. He pushes himself to exhaustion on every tour, worries about every record release, redlines every budget sheet, keeps up on every detail of the production whole, controlling every facet. Complex, unsettled, always controversial, he has sampled multiple relationships, brief affairs with some of the groupies who follow the band and two marriages.
He had a daughter, Karis, with actress Marsha Hunt on 4 November 1970. He married model Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, born 2 May 1945, on 12 May 1971 in a Catholic ceremony in Saint-Tropez, France; their daughter, Jade, was born five months later (21 October 1971). In 1979 the nuptials ended in divorce.
In May 1976 he first met tall, blonde, Texan model Jerry Hall. They re-met the following year at Studio 57 and began their romance. Steady companions from 1978, they had four children: Elizabeth (born 2 March 1984), James (28 August 1985), Georgia (12 January 1992) and Gabriel (9 December 1997). Hall and Jagger married on 21 December 1990 in a Hindu beach ceremony in Bali.
Their 21-year relationship folded when rumours that Brazilian model Luciana Morad was carrying his baby hit the papers on 12 January 1999. Those rumours proved true when, on 27 July 1999, the results of a blood test were announced, proving that Morad’s baby, Lucas (born 18 May 1999), was Jagger’s child.
Hall, who weathered Jagger’s indiscretions over the years with disgruntled tolerance, had had enough and filed for divorce in mid-January. When Jagger made a feeble attempt to declare that they had never been legally married, a judge remarked that “Living together with four children sounds married to me.” Hall sued for a reported $50 million, but settled out of court with Jagger the day their trial was supposed to start for $15.5 million. Their marriage was annulled in August 1999. Jagger had a relationship with fashion designer L’Wren Scott from 2001 until her death on 17 March 2014.
Jagger has never pretended to maintain monogamy. His masseuse said, “He looks like an old raisin but he’s still wicked sexy. He has this giant Grand Canyon ego and it just can’t be filled by one woman.”
Jagger’s mother, Eva, died of a heart condition, aged 87, on 18 May 2000 in London. In San Francisco, on 1 July 2000, Karis Jagger, his first born daughter by Marsha Hunt, married Jonathan Watson, a film-production assistant. Jagger’s father, Joe, died of pneumonia on 11 November 2006, at the age of 93.
Jagger’s personal fortune was estimated in 2010 at £190 million ($298 million US). In 2002, Jagger was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to music and on 12 December 2003 he was knighted by HRH The Prince of Wales.
In 2007, the Rolling Stones made US$437 million on their A Bigger Bang Tour, putting them in the Guinness World Records for the most lucrative music tour. Jagger has refused to say when the band will retire, stating in 2007: “I’m sure the Rolling Stones will do more things and more records and more tours. We’ve got no plans to stop any of that really.”
The Stones finally made their debut at the famous Glastonbury festival in 2013, headlining on Saturday 29 June.

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