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Mick: The Wild Life And Mad Genius Of Jagger (2012)

by Christopher Andersen(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451661444 (ISBN13: 9781451661446)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: Chris Anderson's effort resembles a recent biography on Clint Eastwood - you come away amazed at the audacity of the man, and the sleaziness of their behavior. Mick has a huge sickness for seducing the wives and girlfriends of a close friend...Carly Simon WAS singing about Mick in "You're So Vain." So this is what Keith must have elaborated in his memoirs, which Anderson makes reference too. What's missing, though, is how the Glimmer Twins were able to work together all those years creating all that great music - some tidbits here and there, but the book reads so much more like an ugly morality play, rather than a useful disposition about what made Jagger a 'mad genius.' His time at the London of School of Economics was so briefly mentioned that one forgets that he spe... morent any time at all there. Anderson mentions early in in the Stones career that Mick and Keith couldn't fathom how they would be able to write songs, and then suddenly they're spewing out #1 hits left and right. The only useful insights are the authors assertions that certain songs in the late 60's-early 70's are Mick's responses to the various women in his life. This, though, is far from a definitive biography of this complex man. Perhaps Keith Richards memoirs are where one should mine for such insight...
review 2: So you can actually be more vainglorious. Interesting...This is my second biography, first on a musician, and I now wonder what good a third read would be on someone not that famous. I admit, the large portion of excitement was caused by the back-cover annotation about his ca. 4k mistresses, but the story is actually very boring and more of a deterrent. To myself, I guess. Not that I was a star or anything.. Not recommending this one. It feels that if you are a Rolling Stones fan, you may lose the spirit. Worse still, you may already know this. Mick is a legend to some. I admire his musical success, and finished the book, because first, I paid for it, and second, I wanted to discover, how he's remained on top of his affairs and, if he's found reason finally.. Listen to Zeds Dead's remix of Gimme Shelter. less

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