Mick Jagger LP

Throughout five decades of fronting the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger has been seen as the ultimate arrogant superstar, whose sexual appetite rivals Casanova's and whose supposed reckless drug use touched off the most famous scandal in rock history.
Now Philip Norman reveals a Jagger far more complex than the cold archseducer of myth: here at last is the real story of how a shy economics student became a modern Antichrist…of the beautiful women from Chrissie Shrimpton to Jerry Hall, whom he has bedded but not always dominated . . . of the enduring but ever-fraught partnership with his "Glimmer Twin," Keith Richards. Mick Jagger, above all, explores the keen and calculating intelligence that has kept the Stones on their plinth as "the world's greatest rock'n'roll band" for half a century.

PHILIP NORMAN has an international reputation as a chronicler of pop music and culture. Shout!, his ground-breaking biography of the Beatles, has remained continuously in print, selling more than one million copies, and was recently listed by Waterstones bookshops as one of the 100 best biographies in any genre. He has since written acclaimed books about the Rolling Stones. Elton John, Buddy Holly John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Philip is also an award-winning fiction-writer (included among the first Top 20 'Best of Young British Novelists') and a playwright whose works have appeared on BBC2 and Radio 4. He has also written two musicals. Philip currently lives in London.