Had to slog through 500 pages of a biography of Mick Jagger to finally get to what I was interested in, his personal life. That only left 100 pages of juicy material, which wasn't even that juicy. Remind me not to buy "unauthorized" biographies.
Keith Richards' autobiography told me more about Jagger than this book did. Pages and pages of descriptions of songs, instruments and who sang what are pretty boring. The man has had his share of women, bedding them constantly and in the process fathering about eight children. Didn't know he had his first daughter with some backup singer, but refused to admit he was the father, withholding child support for years until she finally proved his paternity. That's a jerk thing to do.
What comes through is that Jagger is really a bit of a prude and very, very conservative. Happily, these traits saved him from the excesses that ruined so many other rock stars and turned his band mates into multi-millionaires.
Not a bad read, but much of it skip-able.
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