Editing Mick Jagger (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Mick-Jagger with the Rolling Stones 2013.jpg|thumb|alt=Jagger singing on stage |Jagger performing with the Rolling Stones during the band's [[50 & Counting]] Tour at [[TD Garden]] in [[Boston]], in June 2013]]
In the words of British dramatist and novelist [[Philip Norman (author)|Philip Norman]], "the only point concerning Mick Jagger's influence over 'young people' that doctors and psychologists agreed on was that it wasn't, under any circumstances, fundamentally harmless".<ref name="norman">{{cite book|last=Norman|first=Philip|author-link=Philip Norman (author)|title=Symphony for the Devil: the Rolling Stones Story|page=173|publisher=Linden Press/[[Simon & Schuster]]|year=1984|isbn=978-0671449759}}</ref> According to Norman, even [[Elvis Presley]] at his most scandalous had not exerted a "power so wholly and disturbingly physical". "[W]hile [Presley] made girls scream, [he] did not have Jagger's ability to make men feel uncomfortable."<ref name="norman" /> Norman likens Jagger in his early performances with the Rolling Stones in the 1960s to a male ballet dancer, with "his conflicting and colliding sexuality: the swan's neck and smeared harlot eyes allied to an overstuffed and straining [[codpiece]]".<ref name="norman" />

His performance style has been studied by academics who analysed gender, image and sexuality.<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Pattie |title=Rock music in performance |page=156 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-4039-4746-8}}</ref> Musicologist [[Sheila Whiteley]] noted that Jagger's performance style "opened up definitions of gendered masculinity and so laid the foundations for self-invention and sexual plasticity which are now an integral part of contemporary [[youth culture]]".<ref name="sheila">{{cite book |last=Whiteley|first=Sheila |title=Sexing the groove: popular music and gender |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=1997 |page=67 |isbn=0-415-14670-4}}</ref> His stage personas also contributed significantly to the British tradition of popular music that always featured the character song and where the art of singing becomes a matter of acting—which creates a question about the singer's relationship to his own words.<ref>{{cite book |last=Frith |first=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPdIfT6scIoC |title=Performing rites: on the value of popular music |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=0-674-66196-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/performingriteso0000frit/page/171 171] |url-access=registration}}</ref>

His voice has been described as a powerful expressive tool for communicating feelings to his audience, and expressing an alternative vision of society.<ref name="australasianjornal">{{cite journal |last1=Hicks |first1=Michael|author-link=Michael Hicks (musicologist) |title=Sixties Rock: Garage, psychedelic, and other satisfactions |journal=Australasian Journal of American Studies |year=2001 |volume=20 |issue= |page=107 |doi= |access-date=16 July 2022|jstor=41053856|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HArAQAAIAAJ&q=%22to+his+audience+and+expressing+an+alternative+vision+of%22}}</ref> To express "virility and unrestrained passion" he developed techniques previously used by African American preachers and [[gospel music|gospel]] singers such as "the roar, the guttural belt style of singing, and the buzz, a more nasal and raspy sound".<ref name="australasianjornal" /> [[Steven Van Zandt]] wrote: "The acceptance of Jagger's voice on pop radio was a turning point in [[rock & roll]]. He broke open the door for everyone else. Suddenly, [[Eric Burdon]] and [[Van Morrison]] weren't so weird—even [[Bob Dylan]]."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Van Zandt |first=Steven |author-link=Steven Van Zandt |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/the-rolling-stones-19691231 |title=100 Greatest Artists: The Rolling Stones |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010222947/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/the-rolling-stones-19691231 |archive-date=10 October 2011|date=18 August 2015|url-access=limited}}</ref>

Over time, Jagger has developed into the template for rock front men and, with the help of the Stones, has, in the words of the ''Telegraph'', "changed music" through his contributions to it as a pioneer of the modern music industry.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mick Jagger: the Rolling Stone who changed music |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/10192279/Mick-Jagger-the-Rolling-Stone-who-changed-music.html |url-status=live |access-date=17 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313170810/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/10192279/Mick-Jagger-the-Rolling-Stone-who-changed-music.html |archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> Jagger is often described as one of the most popular and influential front men in the history of rock & roll;<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=p4584|pure_url=yes}}|title=Mick Jagger Biography|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=5 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/mick-jagger-gets-political-on-two-new-songs/ar-AAoVqPH#image=AAfxDtH%7C16 |title=Mick Jagger gets political on two new songs |work=[[MSN]] |access-date=31 August 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831221859/https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/mick-jagger-gets-political-on-two-new-songs/ar-AAoVqPH#image=AAfxDtH%7C16 |archive-date=31 August 2017 }}</ref> in 1994 the ''New York Times'' noted that his "influence hangs heavily over contemporary British rock" as many singers "incorporated elements" of his onstage presence into their personas.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Neil |author-link=Neil Strauss |date=3 September 1994 |title=Rock Review: Evidence of Mick Jagger's Influence |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/03/arts/rock-review-evidence-of-mick-jagger-s-influence.html |url-access=limited |access-date=13 July 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2015, ''Billboard'' ranked him among the best rock front men of all time, referring to him as "''the'' rock and roll front man" whose "swagger brought a style and sexiness to rock music that he built on for decades" and openly wondering "would we even have rock stars without Mick?"<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/photos/6721847/best-rock-singers-of-all-time |title=The 25 Best Rock Frontmen (and Women) of All Time |magazine=Billboard|access-date=31 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816012120/http://www.billboard.com/photos/6721847/best-rock-singers-of-all-time |archive-date=16 August 2017}}</ref>

[[David Bowie]] joined many rock bands with blues, folk, and soul orientations in his first attempts as a musician in the mid-1960s, and he was to recall: "I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger."<ref>{{cite book |first=Christopher |last=Sandford |author-link=Christopher Sandford (biographer) |title=Bowie: Loving the Alien  |isbn=0-306-80854-4 |year= 1998 |url=https://archive.org/details/bowielovingalien00sand/page/29|page=29|publisher=Da Capo Press}}</ref> Bowie  suggested, "I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."<ref>{{cite book |first=Steven D. |last=Price |title=1001 Insults, Put-Downs, & Comebacks|publisher=[[Globe Pequot Press]] |year=2007 |page=172}}</ref> Jagger appeared on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'s}} List of 100 Greatest Singers at No.&nbsp;16; in the article, Lenny Kravitz wrote: "I sometimes talk to people who sing perfectly in a technical sense who don't understand Mick Jagger. [...] His sense of pitch and melody is really sophisticated. His vocals are stunning, flawless in their own kind of perfection."<ref name="rollingstoneslist">{{Cite magazine |last=Kravitz|first=Lenny|author-link=Lenny Kravitz|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/mick-jagger-20101202|title=100 Greatest Singers: Mick Jagger|access-date=3 October 2011|date=3 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010080141/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/mick-jagger-19691231 |archive-date=10 October 2011|magazine=Rolling Stone|url-access=limited}}</ref> This edition also cites Jagger as a key influence on [[Jack White (musician)|Jack White]], Steven Tyler and [[Iggy Pop]].<ref name="rollingstoneslist" /> Jagger also has been known to seek out newcomer artists to the music industry and advise them.{{sfn|Jagger|Richards|Watts|Wood|2003|p=136}}

''The Telegraph'' has called Mick Jagger "the Rolling Stone who changed music".<ref name="Langley-2013">{{cite news |last=Langley |first=William |title=Mick Jagger: the Rolling Stone who changed music |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/10192279/Mick-Jagger-the-Rolling-Stone-who-changed-music.html |url-status=live |date=26 July 2013 |access-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313170810/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/10192279/Mick-Jagger-the-Rolling-Stone-who-changed-music.html |archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> [[CNN]] has called Jagger's "greatest talent, besides strutting and singing" his "ability to surround himself and the rest of the band with a group of very able executives."<ref name="Stones Inc">{{cite news |last=Serwer |first=Andy |date=30 September 2002 |title=Inside the Rolling Stones Inc. |agency=CNN |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/30/329302/ |access-date=28 September 2021 |archive-date=28 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928161835/https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/30/329302/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Billboard'' ranked Jagger as the greatest rock lead singer of all time, writing "no one has moves like Jagger -- nor the voice, the image, the fashion sense, or the remarkably enduring charisma...After so many years, Mick Jagger continues to personify not only the Rolling Stones but rock'n'roll itself".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Atkinson |first1=Katie |last2=Bain |first2=Katie |last3=Brown |first3=Eric Renner |last4=Denis |first4=Kyle |last5=DiGiacomo |first5=Frank |last6=Duffy |first6=Thom |last7=Fajardo |first7=Ingrid |last8=Grein |first8=Paul |last9=Havens |first9=Lyndsey| last10=Lipshutz|first10=Jason|last11=Lynch|first11=Joe|last12=Mims|first12=Taylor|last13=Newman|first13=Melinda|last14=Raygoza|first14=Isabela|last15=Unterberger|first15=Andrew|date=16 August 2023 |title=The 50 Greatest Rock Lead Singers of All Time |url=https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-rock-singers-bands-lead-vocalists/ |access-date=17 August 2023 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref>

As Jagger has aged, his continued vitality has provoked comment. [[Bon Jovi]] front man [[Jon Bon Jovi]] said: "I can't get over it...I'm...dying already and I'm gonna go out there and play four songs. How do they do it?"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carucci |first=John |date=6 December 2012 |title=Bon Jovi talks charity, tour |page=6 |work=The Times and Democrat |agency=The Associated Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105682038/bon-jovi-talks-charity-tour/ |access-date=16 July 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Since his early career Jagger has embodied what some authors describe as a "[[Dionysian]] [[archetype]]" of "eternal youth" personified by many rock stars and the rock culture.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jean Shinoda |last=Bolen |title=Gods in everyman: a new psychology of men's lives and loves |url=https://archive.org/details/godsineverymanne00bolerich |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Harper & Row]] |year=1989 |page=[https://archive.org/details/godsineverymanne00bolerich/page/257 257] |isbn=0-06-250098-8}}</ref>

Jagger has repeatedly said that he will not write an autobiography, but according to [[John Blake (journalist)|John Blake]], after a slew of unauthorised biographies, Jagger was persuaded by [[George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld|Lord Weidenfeld]] in the early 1980s to prepare his own for a £1&nbsp;million advance. The resulting 75,000-word manuscript is held by Blake, who briefly planned to publish it until Jagger withdrew support.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/ive-got-mick-jaggers-lost-memoir/ |title=I've got Mick Jagger's lost memoir |date=18 February 2017 |magazine=[[The Spectator]] |first=John |last=Blake |author-link=John Blake (journalist) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219045946/http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/ive-got-mick-jaggers-lost-memoir/ |archive-date=19 February 2017 }}</ref>

"Mick Jagger is the least egotistical person," observed Watts in 2008. "He'll do what's right for the band. He's not a big head—and, if he was, he went through it thirty years ago."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Will|last=Lawrence|title=King Charles|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|date=May 2008|issue=262|page=46}}</ref>