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Article: Focus: MICK AT 60: Sympathy for the Old Devil What's the attraction of Britain's most magnificent ruin? That he's still standing? Or that - on their night - the Rolling Stones are still the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world? The rock writer Charles Shaar Murray pays a birthday tribute
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2003
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"You're a funny little fella," the gangster played by James Fox
tells the reclusive rock star played by Mick Jagger in the 1968 movie
Performance. "You'll look ridiculous when you're 40."
Forty? Yesterday, rock's great actor-manager Sir Michael Philip
Jagger, formerly of Dartford, celebrated, if that is the correct
term, his 60th birthday. And in December his former junior-school
chum and life-long collaborator/sparring partner Keith Richards is
also due to hit 60: mind you, Keith looks as if 60 has already hit
back. The Rolling Stones, needless to say, are still touring, some 40-
plus years after their inception as a bunch of spotty, gawky blues
geeks led by a gifted, golden-haired waster ...