ROLLING STONES FRONTMAN MICK JAGGER TURNS 79 TODAY:

The Rolling Stones singer and living rock icon Mick Jagger turns 79 years young today, and the man who has spent over five decades on the band’s nonstop adventure doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

Jagger has lived long enough and well enough to actually prove himself wrong, finally finding that most elusive and ethereal of concepts, satisfaction, but it certainly wasn’t always this way. Jagger was born to humble parents during wartime in Kent, England in 1943. His father was a teacher, as his father, Basil “Joe” Jagger, had been before him, and it was expected that the youngest Jagger would follow in their footsteps. With a stern mother, Mick got away from home as quickly as he could, eventually running into a long-missed former classmate and friend Keith Richards in university. Jagger’s life would never be the same.

“If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken:”