Mick Jagger: The Old Man and The Sex
Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1999
For years he's been renowned as a serial-philandering, penny-wise dinosaur of rock still implicated in paternity suits for divorce settlements in his mid-50s. But now a nicer, more and more Mick Jagger is emerging from the wings. Will the Rolling Stone grow old gracefully after all?
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