Stones icon’s life

Publisher John Blake once revealed he’d got a 75,000-word manuscript written by Jagger. He claimed tales include the singer buying the Stargroves estate in Hampshire in the 1970s while high on LSD.

Sir Mick is also said to have had a near-death experience after jumping on a horse that went off “like a Ferrari” despite not having ridden one before. Despite a recent heart problem, the Jumpin’ Jack Flash singer’s fitness is legendary, typically covering 12 miles during a show and working out with eight-mile runs and kickboxing sessions.

His stamina in the bedroom is also renowned. One biographer claimed the (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction star had bedded 4,000

women.

It has even been alleged that Mick had an affair

with fellow singing sensation

David

Bowie, below

– though they denied the claims.

He has had eight children with five different women. The youngest is Deveraux, with his current partner ballerina Melanie Hamrick,

34, who was born in 2016. Sir Mick is a great-grandfather, too.

Mick’s first serious girlfriend, the model Chrissie Shrimpton, claims to have taken an overdose of sleeping pills in the

1960s after the star cheated on her.

The singer Marianne Faithfull

HE’S still rocking at

77… but Sir Mick Jagger said this week he gave up penning his autobiography as he “didn’t enjoy” writing it. The Rolling Stones star got

£1million for a memoir, but returned it saying he found looking back at his life “inordinately dull”. Yet his sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll lifestyle has been anything but – as JAMES MOORE reveals with these facts about him.