Sir Mick thought of becoming a teacher
MICK Jagger as a schoolboy wanted to be a school teacher — like his father, Basil Fanshawe Jagger, and his grandfather, David Ernest Jagger, before him.
The front man for the Rolling Stones has revealed that he finds his career as a rock star “intellectually undemanding” and being a teacher might have been a “gratifying” alternative.
He said he had considered many occupations as a teenager, including a politician, journalist and dancer. Although he was “pleased with what I’ve done as a musician”, he admitted he wished he had done more things in his life.
Jagger, who was a student at the London School of Economics when the Stones were starting out in 1962, told the Today TV programme: “All these things you think of when you’re a teenager . . . you can think, well, I would have liked to have done that, but that’s completely pointless. But I don’t feel frustrated for a lack of control at all and I’m very pleased with what I’ve done.
“Everyone wants to have done more things in their lives. It is a slightly intellectually undemanding thing to do, being a rock singer, but, you know, you make the best of it.”
The veteran rocker said he had ditched the idea of becoming a dancer because of the prospect of “so many injuries”.
It is estimated that the Rolling Stones have made more than £200-million (about R3-billion) from album sales since 1962.
Jagger was speaking ahead of the band’s headline performance at Glastonbury this week — the first time it performed at the famous festival in Somerset.—