Mick Jagger: ‘Morbid and pathetic and very close to being ugly’

The Rolling Stones are shown
during rehearsal on April 8,
1964The. British band members,
fromleft,are, Brian Jones, guitar;
Bill Wyman, bass; Charlie
Watts,drums; Mick Jagger, vocals; and Keith Richards, guitar
Tuesday marks Mick Jagger’s 68th birthday. In honor of the rubber-mouthed, hallow-eyed, gorgeous-at-68 sprightly singer, I’m turning back to the archives of the Post Ever since I found our original review of the Beatles in 1964 and it wasn’t a pretty oneI’ve. been hoping to poke fun at ourshortsighted music reviewers again
Thanks to Mick Jagger, I’ve got
the chance. And what a delicious
chance it is. In 1964, the Post
wrote of the Beatles: “The British have to sit through dozens of dreadful American television programs. In return, we find the Beatles. As usual, we got gypped”Just a year and a half later an article appeared in the Post by Paul Richard entitled “Rolling Stones lacking in Beatle-like Finesse”. There is so much good in this article
The Rolling Stones were in town
yesterday but you didn’t miss
anything unless you happen to be 12 years old and a girl
The Stones are from England and
they play amplified guitars and
harmonicas and drums. They are
not the Beatles
The Beatles are smiley and nice
and funny. The Stones are morbid
and pathetic and very close to
being ugly
There are five of them. Four of
them play instruments and weigh
140 pounds each. Mick Jagger, the fifth, sings and stares and dances He was educated at the London School of Economics and weighs 146 pounds
They’re touring the United States so that all the 12-year-old girls who have had to create do with canned voices on records and radios can dress up and comb their hair and scream at them in person.
Dressing up is very important. If
you wear the right kind of boppy
little hat and eye-makeup and tight pants one of the Stones can wave at you
Mick Jagger doesn’t wave, he
points.He has a lot of thick brown uncombed hair and he dances while he sings. Yesterday he wore checked bell-bottomed hip-hugger pants and danced with his
microphone The microphone was on a long chrome-plated stand and had around weighted base to keep it from falling over. Jagger picked it up and jumped about and turned it upside down and hugged it “Ah caint find no sat-is-fac-tion,” he said He aslo played the tambourine with his wrist and his knees and hisrump “Ah caint find no sat-is-fac-tion,” he said Then he started to take off hisjacket.
He did it very slowly and
gracefully, and then almost — but not quite threw it into the
audience
“Eeeeeee,” told the
audience There were a lot of
policemen there too.
They formed a human
wall about the stage and shoved
back all the girls who tested to
take the put of the microphone
They held their nightsticks in their hands and shoved gently
Suddenly, from the midst of all
those girls, a young man in a red
sweater jumped on stage and made a desperate grab at Jagger’s
tambourine
The police got there first.They
twisted his arm and grabbed him
around the neck and pushed him to the floor and then dragged him struggling and kiccking up the aisle
Then suddenly it was over. Jaggerdropped the microphone and leaped off the stage into a sea of blue andvanished. The group was here for only a one-night stand
The Rolling Stones have made a lotof records and a lot of money. Thisreporter was said they were great
musicians and gave wonderful
concerts
This reporter was said wrong.


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