Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger was born on July 26, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England. Mick Jagger is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional film producer and actor. His role as lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones for close to five decades has made him one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll. Jagger initially met future musical collaborator and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards while the pair were classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent, although they would lose contact with each other shortly thereafter. In the intervening years, Jagger discovered a love for music, especially early rock & roll (forming a high school band, Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys), as well as developing an interest in business, attending the London School of Economics. Jagger and Richards resumed their friendship in July 1960 after a chance encounter and discovered that they had both developed a love for rhythm and blues music. The two men formed the Rolling Stones shortly thereafter. The band (which also included second guitarist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts), merged the rock & roll of Chuck Berry with the raw blues of Muddy Waters, creating a style that would be infinitely copied by others in its wake.