“One of my big jobs,” Mick Jagger admits in the new BBC documentary series My Life As A Rolling Stone, “is to be a show off, really.”
With 60 years’ experience, he’s incredibly good at it. At the second of two sold-out Hyde Park shows, the 78-year-old frontman prances, struts, preens, hops, strides, points, and poses for two hours with the enthusiasm of a fitness trainer one-third his age. All the while, he’s belting out high-energy rock ‘n roll standards, playing harmonica, playing harmonica and pointing, and changing outfits. After a black coat, ornately embroidered in golden floral patterns; sleek, flowing silver shirt; pink waistcoat; red and blue silk hoodie; and yellow and black colour block jacket, one starts to lose track. And he knows it. “She’s an amazing singer, but I’ve worn sparklier dresses,” the showman says of Adele at one point.
Nils van der Linden 