MICK JAGGER

Building on over four years of in-depth, exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with the many fascinating people who shared Jagger's life, MICK JAGGER provides fascinating insights into the iconic superstar's childhood in well-heeled postwar England; the profound influence of the Blues on his musical education; his intense connection, tumultuous friendship, and creative partnership with Keith Richards; his relationship with the deeply troubled and charismatic Brian Jones; the women in his life-including Marianne Faithfull, Bianca Jagger, and Jerry Hall-and the rise of the Stones from an early '60s pop boy band to the excesses of Altamont, on through their enduring, indefatigable career.

One of the world's most instantly recognizable faces, Mick Jagger is perhaps the most private, most enigmatic superstar there is. A careful cultivator of his public persona, he has sworn never to produce his own memoir-and no truly penetrating biography of this extraordinary musician exists. With MICK JAGGER (complete with never before seen photographs), Philip Norman reveals the man behind the myth in this be-all, end-all biography of the star.