Sir Mick Jagger admits his dad hated idea of him being a rocker: ‘He was so against me being in the arts!’
Sir Mick Jagger’s dad was against him being a rocker. The 80-year-old Rolling Stones frontman says his father Basil Fanshawe ‘Joe’ Jagger was an academic who hated the idea of him going into the “arts” – but said he gave him his love of fitness. Mick told The Times about his late dad: “He was inspiring in terms of physical exercise. “He wasn’t that tough a father, not a severe disciplinarian or anything like that, but he taught me how physicality was important. “What he didn’t do, what he was so against, actually, was me being involved in any way in the arts.” When asked if his dad approved of...