He may not rock ’n’ roll like big brother Mick, but £15-a-ticket Chris Jagger can pack a pub!
HIS £270million big brother Mick gets Satisfaction from selling out huge stadiums all over the world.
But life’s slower for Chris Jagger, who this week performed to a crowd of just 30 people in a village pub.
A smattering of locals dined on pub food as they watched the younger Jagger perform, hours after Sir Mick delighted 66,000 fans at a sell-out London Stadium gig.
And while Sir Mick and the Rolling Stones can rake in hundreds of thousands from one show, Chris and his band charged just £15 a head.
He performed in a small dining room at the Crooked Billet pub in Henley-on-Thames on Wednesday.
Around 30 people paid their small entry fee on top of a pub dinner – while those lucky enough to be in the front row of the Rolling Stones gig paid hundreds of pounds.
A well-known fixture on the local folk music scene, Chris, 70, has never quite managed the sell- out success of his older brother.
Meanwhile Sir Mick, 74, will hit the stage along with his bandmates for
‘It’s not Mick’s job to support me’
their second sell- out London gig tonight ahead of a 14-date tour of Europe. The married folk singer has said his career was hampered because of constant comparisons with his multi-millionaire brother.
He has released a handful of albums with little success, while Sir Mick and the Stones have managed eight UK number one singles and ten chart-topping albums.
Chris, who supplemented his income by driving taxis, said: ‘Having someone like Mick as a brother gives you a standard to live up to.
‘But you also know what’s going to happen if you put a record out – they are going to compare it to what Mick has done. I had people in the taxi who would say, “Why can’t your brother support you?”, but it’s not his job to support me.’
The guitarist has a head of flowing white hair, unlike Sir Mick’s carefully-preserved chestnut locks. And while he lives in a renovated home in Somerset, Sir Mick’s property empire includes a castle in the Loire Valley, a retreat on Mustique, an apartment in New York, and houses in London’s Richmond and Chelsea.