Editing Mick Jagger (section)

===1960s===
[[File:Rolling Stones op Schiphol, Bestanddeelnr 916-7422.jpg|thumb|alt=Jagger with the Rolling Stones at a press conference in Schiphol|[[The Rolling Stones]] in August 1964. Left to right: guitarist [[Brian Jones]], drummer [[Charlie Watts]], Jagger, bass guitarist [[Bill Wyman]], and lead guitarist [[Keith Richards]]]]
At the beginning of the Rolling Stones' founding in the early 1960s, the band mostly played for no money at a basement club opposite London's [[Ealing Broadway station|Ealing Broadway]] tube station, which was subsequently named Ferry's Club. The group had very little equipment and borrowed Korner's gear to play. Their first appearance, under the name the Rollin' Stones, after one of their favourite Muddy Waters songs, was performed at the [[Marquee Club]], a London jazz club, on 12&nbsp;July 1962. They later changed their name to the Rolling Stones, since it seemed more formal.{{sfn|Richards|Fox|2010|p=97}}

The initial band members included Jagger, Richards, Jones, [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] on piano, Dick Taylor on bass, and [[Tony Chapman]] on drums, but Richards wrote in ''[[Life (Keith Richards)|Life]]'', his memoir, that, "The drummer that night was [[Mick Avory]]—not Tony Chapman, as history has mysteriously handed it down..."{{sfn|Richards|Fox|2010|p=97}} In June 1963, the band began a five-month [[Artist-in-residence|residency]] at [[Eel Pie Island|Eel Pie Island Hotel]], which the [[BBC]] later credited with shaping the band's career.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Taylor|first=Alex|date=18 June 2018|title=The Rolling Stones: How Eel Pie Island shaped the band's career|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44437317|access-date=3 January 2022|archive-date=3 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103020459/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44437317|url-status=live}}</ref> That autumn, Jagger left the London School of Economics to pursue a musical career with the Rolling Stones.<ref name="The Rolling Stones-2017" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/01/speed-read-11-juiciest-bits-from-philip-norman-s-biography-of-mick-jagger |title=Speed Read: 11 Juiciest Bits from Philip Norman's Biography of Mick Jagger |date=1 October 2012 |work=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=6 March 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Jagger Remembers" />

The group initially played songs by American rhythm and blues artists, including [[Chuck Berry]] and [[Bo Diddley]]. The band's first two UK No.&nbsp;1 hits were cover versions, "[[It's All Over Now]]" by [[Bobby Womack]]{{sfn|Roberts|2006|p=165}} and "[[Little Red Rooster]]" by [[Willie Dixon]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-rolling-stones-songs-20131015/little-red-rooster-1965-19691231 |title=100 Greatest Rolling Stones Songs |access-date=18 October 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018131359/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-rolling-stones-songs-20131015/little-red-rooster-1965-19691231 |archive-date=18 October 2017|date=15 October 2013}}</ref> Encouraged by manager [[Andrew Loog Oldham]], Jagger and Richards soon began  writing their own songs. Their [[Jagger–Richards|songwriting partnership]] took time to develop; one of their early compositions was "[[As Tears Go By (song)|As Tears Go By]]", a song written for [[Marianne Faithfull]], a young singer Loog Oldham was promoting.{{sfn|Jagger|Richards|Watts|Wood|2003|p=84}}

For the Rolling Stones, the duo wrote "[[The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)|The Last Time]]", the group's third No.&nbsp;1 single in the UK, based on "This May Be the Last Time", a traditional [[Negro spiritual]] song recorded by the [[Staple Singers]] in 1955.{{sfn|Kot|2014|p=112}} Jagger and Richards also wrote their first international hit, "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]". It established the Rolling Stones' image as defiant troublemakers in contrast to [[the Beatles]] as "lovable moptop[s]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-mt0006898864 |title=(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction |first=Richie |last=Unterberger |work=AllMusic |access-date=8 September 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908205434/http://www.allmusic.com/song/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-mt0006898864 |archive-date=8 September 2017}}</ref> Jagger told [[Stephen Schiff]] in a 1992 ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' profile:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2015/05/08/mick-jagger-hair/ |title=Adorable, 21-year-old Mick Jagger gets his hair done |last=Wild |first=Chris |website=[[Mashable]]|date=8 May 2015 |access-date=3 September 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903115948/http://mashable.com/2015/05/08/mick-jagger-hair/ |archive-date=3 September 2017}}</ref> <blockquote>I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those days; I was just being me. I wasn't trying to push the edge of anything. I'm being me and ordinary, the guy from suburbia who sings in this band, but someone older might have thought it was just the most awful racket, the most terrible thing, and where are we going if this is music?... But all those songs we sang were pretty tame, really. People didn't think they were, but I thought they were tame.{{sfn|Dick|Reisch|2011|p=49}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stone-20th-anniversary-interview-mick-jagger-88763/ |last=Gilmore|first=Mikal|date=5 November 1987|title=The Rolling Stone 20th Anniversary Interview: Mick Jagger |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=3 September 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903120929/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stone-20th-anniversary-interview-mick-jagger-19871105 |archive-date=3 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/sep/09/shopping.popandrock |title=Rock of ages |last=Hattenstone |first=Simon |date=8 September 2005 |work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 September 2017 |issn=0261-3077 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903121947/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/sep/09/shopping.popandrock |archive-date=3 September 2017}}</ref></blockquote>
[[File:Mick Jagger rushed by fan in West Germany.jpg|thumb|Jagger is rushed by a female fan during a 1965 performance in West Germany]]
The group's early albums, including ''[[Out of Our Heads]]'', ''[[Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath]]'', and ''[[Between the Buttons]]'', were successful commercially. In 1967, Jagger, Richards, and Jones were hounded by authorities over their [[recreational drug use]] after the ''[[News of the World]]'' published a three-part feature, "Pop Stars and Drugs: Facts That Will Shock You".{{sfn|Wells|2012|p=110}} The feature described alleged [[LSD]] parties hosted by [[the Moody Blues]] and attended by [[the Who]]'s [[Pete Townshend]] and [[Cream (band)|Cream]]'s [[Ginger Baker]], and alleged admissions of drug use by leading pop musicians. The first article targeted [[Donovan]], who was raided and charged soon after the feature aired. The second instalment, published on 5 February, targeted the Rolling Stones.{{sfn|Paytress|2003|p=116}}

A reporter who contributed to the story spent an evening at the London club Blaise's, where a member of the Rolling Stones allegedly took several [[Benzedrine]] tablets, displayed a piece of [[hashish]], and invited his companions back to his flat for a "smoke". The article claimed this was Mick Jagger, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity; the reporter had been eavesdropping on Brian Jones. Two days after the article was published, Jagger filed a writ for libel against the ''News of the World''.{{sfn|Cohen|2016|p=153}}{{sfn|Paytress|2003|p=116}}

[[The Rolling Stones' Redlands bust|Jagger and Richards were later arrested on drug charges]] and given unusually harsh sentences. Jagger was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for possession of four over-the-counter [[pep pill]]s he had purchased in Italy, and Richards was sentenced to one year in prison for allowing cannabis to be smoked on his property. The traditionally conservative editor of ''[[The Times]]'', [[William Rees-Mogg]], wrote [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?#Modern use|an article critical of the sentences]]. On appeal, Richards' sentence was overturned and Jagger's was amended to a [[conditional discharge]], although he spent one night in London's [[Brixton Prison]].{{sfn|Andersen|2012|pp=148–149}}<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/inside-allen-kleins-role-in-1967-jagger-richards-drug-bust-43267/|title=Inside Allen Klein's Role in 1967 Jagger-Richards Drug Bust|author=<!-- Staff -->|date=11 August 2015|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=15 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170211113050/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-an-exclusive-excerpt-from-bio-of-stones-beatles-manager-allen-klein-20150811|archive-date=11 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/10/newsid_2522000/2522735.stm|title=BBC On This Day {{!}} 10 {{!}} 1967: Two Rolling Stones on drugs charges |website=BBC News|access-date=15 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170210170540/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/10/newsid_2522000/2522735.stm|archive-date=10 February 2017|date=10 May 1967}}</ref> The Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next decade.{{sfn|Booth|2000|pp=271–278}}<ref name="stonemag2" />

By the release of the Stones' album ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'', Brian Jones was contributing only sporadically to the band. Jagger said Jones was "not psychologically suited to this way of life".{{sfn|Jagger|Richards|Watts|Wood|2003|p=128}} His drug use became a hindrance, and he could not obtain a US [[visa (document)|visa]]. Richards reported that when Jagger, Watts, and he were at Jones' house in June 1969, Jones admitted he was unable to "go on the road again". Jones left the band, saying,  "I've left, and if I want to I can come back".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-Nx8AUNAHIC&q=brian+jones+i%27ve+left%2C+and+if+I+want+to+I+can+come+back%27&pg=PT284 |title=Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones |last=Davis |first=Stephen |year= 2001 |publisher=[[Crown/Archetype]] |isbn=978-0-7679-0956-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918033352/https://books.google.ca/books?id=5-Nx8AUNAHIC&pg=PT284&lpg=PT284&dq=brian+jones+i%27ve+left%2C+and+if+I+want+to+I+can+come+back%27&source=bl&ots=DUEpjePXZM&sig=odPrVldtAKJY4TmAtRu330WbALw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitz87etpPWAhVB5WMKHZo6AZEQ6AEINDAC |archive-date=18 September 2017 |access-date=17 November 2021 }}</ref> On 3&nbsp;July 1969, less than a month later, Jones drowned in the swimming pool at his home, [[Cotchford Farm]], in [[Hartfield]], East Sussex.{{sfn|Wyman|2002|p=329}} When asked if he felt guilty about Jones's death, Jagger told ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in 1995:
<blockquote>No, I don't really. I do feel that I behaved in a very childish way, but we were very young, and in some ways we picked on him. But, unfortunately, he made himself a target for it; he was very, very jealous, very difficult, very [[Psychological manipulation|manipulative]], and if you do that in this kind of a group of people you get back as good as you give, to be honest. I wasn't understanding enough about his drug addiction. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like [[LSD]] were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.<ref name="Jagger Remembers" /></blockquote>

On 5&nbsp;July 1969, two days after Jones' death, the Rolling Stones played a previously scheduled concert at [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]], attended by 250,000 people, dedicating it as a tribute to Jones. It was their first concert with new guitarist, [[Mick Taylor]], who replaced Jones.<ref name="stonemag2">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-rolling-stones/biography |title=The Rolling Stones Biography |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430085305/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-rolling-stones/biography |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=6 June 2006}}</ref> At the beginning of the Hyde Park concert, Jagger read an excerpt from [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s poem "[[Adonaïs]]", an elegy written on the death of [[John Keats]], after which thousands of butterflies were released in Jones' memory.<ref name="stonemag2" /> The band began the concert with "I'm Yours and I'm Hers", a song by [[Johnny Winter]].<ref name="StonesinthePark">{{cite video |people=The Rolling Stones |title=The Stones in the Park |medium=DVD released 2006 |publisher=Network Studios |year=1969}}</ref> During the concert, they band played three new songs from two forthcoming albums, "[[Midnight Rambler]]" and "[[Love in Vain]]", from ''[[Let It Bleed]]'',  released in December 1969, and "[[Loving Cup (song)|Loving Cup]]", which appeared on ''[[Exile on Main St.]]'', released May 1972. They also played "[[Honky Tonk Women]]", released as a single the previous day.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/10159947/Mick-Jagger-we-will-play-same-set-list-at-Hyde-Park-gig-as-in-1969.html |title=Mick Jagger: we will play same set list at Hyde Park gig as in 1969 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020164158/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rolling-stones/10159947/Mick-Jagger-we-will-play-same-set-list-at-Hyde-Park-gig-as-in-1969.html |archive-date=20 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstones.com/2013/07/13/hyde-park-london-setlist-13th-july-2013/|title=Hyde Park London Setlist: 13th July 2013 – The Rolling Stones |website=The Rolling Stones |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523234327/http://www.rollingstones.com/2013/07/13/hyde-park-london-setlist-13th-july-2013/ |archive-date=23 May 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.axs.com/the-rolling-stones-release-iconic-hyde-park-1969-performance-on-blu-ra-62810 |title=The Rolling Stones release iconic Hyde Park 1969 performance on Blu-ray |work=AXS |access-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811183453/https://www.axs.com/the-rolling-stones-release-iconic-hyde-park-1969-performance-on-blu-ra-62810 |archive-date=11 August 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On 6 December 1969, the Stones performed at the [[Altamont Free Concert]] music festival, in which [[Killing of Meredith Hunter|Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death]] by a member of the [[Hells Angels Motorcycle Club]] after drawing a [[revolver]] and approaching the stage, which was seen as a threat to the band.<ref name="sfgate">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/26/BAG3CCUE8997.DTL|title=Altamont 'cold case' is being closed Theory of second stabber debunked by Sheriff's Dept.|last=Lee|first=Henry K. |date=26 May 2005|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=16 November 2008}}</ref> Accounts of Hunter's reasoning for drawing the revolver were mixed. According to ''The Guardian'' music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Hunter's death and the overall mood of festival goers "has become symbolic for the corruption of 1960s hippy idealism".<ref>{{cite news|last=Beaumont-Thomas|first=Ben|date=10 January 2022|access-date=28 July 2023|title=Lost footage of Rolling Stones at notorious Altamont festival uncovered|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/10/lost-footage-of-rolling-stones-at-notorious-altamont-festival-uncovered}}</ref> Jagger later recalled to [[Robert Greenfield]] that he was "scared shitless" that, according to ''Rolling Stone'', "he might be attacked on stage" by Hells Angels members who "felt they had been unfairly blamed for the disaster that left a Stones fan dead".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=24 July 2023 |title=Revisit The Rolling Stones Infamous 1972 North American Tour on New Podcast |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rolling-stones-infamous-1972-tour-podcast-1234793762/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2 August 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>