Many on this thread are trying to fit the past into the future. Of course what he wrote in the 60s has nothing to do with the suicide — seriously?
I’m just hoping he has a dawning awareness of how destructive the hedonist lifestyle can be for some people, and how the whole 60s schtick is increasingly bankrupt, and not necessarily a good thing to be promoting to newer, younger audiences faced with an entirely different, greatly more dangerous and fragile world than the one he grew up in and the moral order against which which he rebelled. He grew up in an intact family, and apparently craves his children’s attention; I read that they actually used Biblical passages at the funeral. Under that bravado there is a heart.
He’s a narcissistic star and it’s worked out for him perfectly! It might not be your idea of happiness and it certainly ain’t mine, but to expect Mick to get that ole time religion while still chasing the broads is, to me, a worthless waste of time. Plus, people expect him to be a horndog and that helps bring in the dollars to support his polygamous life style.
When I was a kid I was disappointed that Julie Andrews, who played a nun in a movie, was really a divorced actress with a potty mouth. Then I grew up.