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Well, Minnesota...I hope you like your new senator...think he can fit in those pants when he prances across the Senate floor?

Mick Jagger, the snake-hipped, rubber-lipped frontman of the Rolling Stones, celebrates his 65th birthday Saturday but shows no signs of slowing down, despite officially becoming an old age pensioner. At an age when most British men are retiring from work and claiming state pensions, Jagger is dating a woman some 25 years his junior -- stylist L'Wren Scott -- counting his millions after the Stones' record-grossing "Bigger Bang" tour and branching out into film production. His behaviour may not be as hellraising as that of fellow Stone Ronnie Wood, who last week entered rehab to receive treatment for alcohol abuse...

Mick Jagger, the snake-hipped, rubber-lipped frontman of the Rolling Stones, celebrates his 65th birthday Saturday but shows no signs of slowing down, despite officially becoming an old age pensioner. At an age when most British men are retiring from work and claiming state pensions, Jagger is dating a woman some 25 years his junior -- stylist L'Wren Scott -- counting his millions after the Stones' record-grossing "Bigger Bang" tour and branching out into film production. His behaviour may not be as hellraising as that of fellow Stone Ronnie Wood, who last week entered rehab to receive treatment for alcohol abuse...

** EXCERPT ** WASHINGTON: Call her a Honky Tonk Woman: Hillary Rodham Clinton is a big fan of the Rolling Stones. Speaking to reporters aboard her campaign plane Sunday morning, the Democratic presidential contender said she was eager to see "Shine a Light," the new documentary about the legendary rock band that was directed by Martin Scorsese and opens Friday. Clinton said she attended her first Stones show as a high school senior in 1965, and has seen them a few times since then. She praised Mick Jagger, the band's 64-year-old lead singer, and said she admired his work ethic....

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is a "power freak" who is also a "bit vain", bandmate Keith Richards said in an interview set to be published Thursday. Speaking to Uncut magazine in an interview to promote a Martin Scorsese documentary about the band, "Shine A Light", the guitarist also said he would have told his younger self to "lay off" drugs. "Mick's a maniac. He can't get up in the morning without knowing immediately who he's going to call," the 64-year-old Richards said. "Meanwhile, I just go 'Thank God I'm awake' and wait for three or four hours before I...

See for example this thread first. The Rolling Stones' singer, Mick Jagger (The one with the sneer and the swagger)... For enhancement, to please his girlfriends, he used BEES! Use Enzyte, you won't have to stagger!

LONDON (Reuters) - Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger's new solo album sold just 954 copies on its first day on sale, according to British newspapers on Wednesday. Despite a massive publicity effort, the 58-year-old singer's third solo album ``Goddess In The Doorway'' was lying at number 85 in the British charts. On the same day, Robbie Williams' new album ``Swing While You're Winning,'' sold 73,000 copies. The Daily Mail quoted a music industry insider as saying: ''These results have staggered everyone. ``They are very, very disappointing considering the Jagger publicity machine has been absolutely wonderful.'' Jagger's spokesman Bernard Docherty said: ...

PRESIDENT George Bush can’t get no satisfaction — after Mick Jagger grabbed his hotel room. The Rolling Stone splashed out £3,600 a night for the suite days before the US leader tried to book it. Now Mick, 62, who has been a fierce critic of the Bush-led war in Iraq, is refusing to give it up. The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city. Bush’s aides then tried to book it to tie in with a summit meeting....

Say goodbye to that dancing creepshow named Mr. Six. Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, is fixing to deep-six the strangeling octogenarian that for years now has served as the chief mascot and marketing engine for troubled Six Flags Inc. Snyder, who took control of the theme park operator earlier this week, is planning to rebrand the Oklahoma company so it better appeals to children and families, the New York Post reported. That means steering away from “thrill-seeking teenagers” and establishing partnerships with fast-food restaurants and cartoon studios, the Post said. Branding experts say the odd-looking Mr. Six —...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Back in 1968 Mick Jagger had plenty of "Sympathy for the Devil," but his first wife Bianca is far more critical of "The Great Satan" and fears U.S. unwillingness to talk to Iran could lead to conflict. Rights campaigner Jagger, the Council of Europe's goodwill ambassador, has traveled to Iran with a group called "U.S. Academics for Peace," seeking to ensure the Islamic Republic does not become the next Iraq. The group argues the mudslinging rhetoric branding the United States as "The Great Satan" and Iran as part of the "axis of evil" is one of the...

GERMANY'S conservatives said today they would continue to play the Rolling Stones song Angie on their leader Angela Merkel's campaign trail despite complaints from the band and requests from a record company to stop. "The song will be played tonight" at a rally in Hamburg, said a spokeswoman for Ms Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) which is tipped to win September elections, paving the way for her to become Germany's first woman chancellor. She said that the party had been assured by the German music copyright group GEMA that they were allowed to use the Stones' 1973 hit. The European...

The normally apolitical Rolling Stones have no sympathy for President Bush. In the refrain of the 13th track on their upcoming album, frontman Mick Jagger belts out the refrain: "How come you’re so wrong, my sweet neo-con?" "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite," the verse goes. "You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think you are full of s--! Fans have been buzzing about the tune for months, with many up in arms over rumors that Virgin Records cut it from the final disc, fearing America’s conservative-owned radio networks and big box chain stores would refuse...

Finally I have a vanity post worthy of Freepers... A friend of mine here in Germany is a music editor for a magazine. He is a true blue lifelong Rolling Stones fan (as well as a leftie) and has been to a Pre-Listening Session of the new Rolling Stones album today. Now this is exactly what he told me about it: "It sucks."

New York-WABC, August 10, 2005) — 'The Rolling Stones' are joining forces with ABC And the NFL to promote a new album "A Bang" and tour. Footage from the Stones Detroit show will air during the one hour pregame special before the "Patriots" face the "Raiders" on September 8th. The band's music will be featured in promos and during replays on "Monday night football" throughout the rest of the season.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUG 09, 2003 08:02:25 ET XXXXX JAGGER ROCKS BUSH: 'HOW COME YOU'RE SO WRONG, MY SWEET NEO-CON' "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con." Ready to drop in the coming weeks, a new Bush-bashing tune from the ROLLING STONES: "Sweet Neo Con." "It is direct," Mick Jagger says with a laugh to fresh editions of NEWSWEEK. "Keith [Roberts] said, 'It's not really metaphorical.' I think he's a bit worried because he...

Last week, when not inciting mob murder in the Middle East, liberals were whimpering about iPods. Though once chic, the New York Times said, the Apple digital music players are quickly becoming passé -- ironically, much like the New York Times. As it turns out, a pretty good indication of inherent coolness is the Times’ disapproval. In addition to opposing iPods, the Times opposes -- brace yourselves -- the Rolling Stones. I know you can’t always get what you want, but with the Times you never get what you want. Under the words “Old and Overscheduled,” writer Henry Fountain reports...

LONDON (Reuters) - Keith Richards (news) is not amused. The legendary Rolling Stones' guitarist has flown into a rock and roll rage against Mick Jagger (news) over the singer's decision to accept a knighthood, the ultimate nod from the British establishment. "I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine," Richards told British music magazine "Uncut" in an expletive-rich interview. "I told Mick it's a paltry honor...It's not what the Stones is about, is it?" The Stones, still rocking after 40 years, made their names with crunching rock classics including "Satisfaction," "Street...

The power of music in the soul--described to Jessica marvelously by Lorenzo in the Merchant of Venice--has been recovered after a long period of desuetude. And it is rock music alone that has affected this restoration. Classical music is dead among the young. This assertion will, I know, be hotly disputed by many who, unwilling to admit tidal changes, can point to the proliferation on campuses of classes in classical music appreciation and practice, as well as performance groups of all kinds. Their presence is undeniable, but they involve not more than 5 to 10 percent of the students....

They Rock. Still. Rock 'em if u got 'em. Highlights - StreetFightingMan Jumpin' Jack Flash Sympathy For The Devil Wild Horses http://www.rollingstones.com/news/ Coming to a town near you.....

LONDON (Reuters) - Aging rocker Mick Jagger, renowned for his bad-boy image and a long list of female conquests, is set to receive the ultimate accolade of the British establishment -- a knighthood, newspapers reported Sunday. "It's Sir Mick (and not for his services to women)," read the headline in the News of the World. The Sunday Times said: "At last, His Satanic Majesty is called to the palace." Neither Buckingham Palace nor Downing Street would comment on the reports that "Old Rubber Lips," who turns 59 next month, will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth in her birthday honors list...