This week in history Mick Jagger became, much to the hilarity of Keef, Sir Mick Jagger. Presumably on the day he picked up his bauble no-one had reminded her maj of his not exactly knight of the realm style behaviour back in the day. Personal favourites of mine include:
- Starring in one of the more mentalist films of the sixties, Performance (pictured) where, as legend has it not only did he boff Keef’s then girlfriend Anita Pallenberg but there were as many drugs on the set as in the script
- Allegedly boffing the Prime minister of Canada’s wife
- Boffing Bridgitte Bardot in a cupboard out of “sympathy”. Perhaps where Boris Becker got the idea.
- Boffing Tina Turner under a stage while the band were waiting actually on the stage above for him
Arise Sir Mick, indeed…
Also this week in rock, the guy Radcliffe and Maconie call Sir Norbert of Holdsworth, Noddy Holder to you and I, celebrates his 66th birthday, a little know fact about Slade is that they started life as a skinhead act and despite their slightly comedic reputation they are incredibly accomplished musicians.
To bring us slightly more up to date Nirvana‘s mostly forgotten and underrated debut album Bleach (below) was released. Predictably, the album was lauded by critics but ignored by the general public until being re-released after the humungous success of Nevermind and in the end went on to sell over 4 million copies. It still stands up today as far as this listener is concerned and the track About a girl is as good anything they ever recorded. But, sotto voce, it’s still not as good as Nevermind…
Thoughts on the week by Chris Mackinnon of Freak Music, one of the UK’s leading music agents.
