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Mick Jagger: Wandering Spirit (Atlantic)

Max Bell, Vox, March 1993

REMEMBER THAT SCENE in Performance, where James Fox's Chas tells Mick Jagger's Turner: "You'll look funny when you're 40"? Well, the rock'n'roller's fear of that particular age penalty has now passed. Grandad and elder statesman Michael Philip will hit 50 in July, but shows absolutely no signs of retiring to his allotment.

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