Billboard Rolling Stones Cover Shoot
Billboard profiles The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, exploring their distinct personalities and enduring creative partnership. The piece highlights their differing approaches to life and work as they reflect on their 63-year career.
Why it matters
As one of the most iconic bands in history, the dynamic between Jagger and Richards remains a significant subject of interest in music and pop culture history.
Under a poolside garden canopy in West London, Mick Jagger offers me a tongue-in- cheek choice as we sit down: “Should I be polite and English or shall I be rude and New York-like?” The English rocker, who lived in New York for 18 years and was knighted in 2003, is smirking — but one gets the impression he could readily slide into either mode. The Rolling Stones frontman can code switch in a Jumpin’ Jack flash, talking as comfortably about physics and aviation as pop stars and bluesmen.
The article is a standard celebrity profile with no political or social agenda.
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