The Paint It Black singer has offered up a tribute to his late pal for the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine and he reveals Bowie was a big fan of his wardrobe.
"He'd always look at my clothes labels," Jagger said. "When he would see me, he'd give me a hug, and I could feel him going up behind the collar of my shirt to see what I was wearing.
"He used to copy me sometimes, but he'd be very honest about it. If he took one of your moves, he'd say, 'That's one of yours - I just tried it'. I didn't mind sharing things with him, because he would share so much with me. It was a two-way street."
"We were very close in the 80s in New York," Jagger adds. "We'd hang out a lot and go out to dance clubs. We were very influenced by the New York downtown scene back then. That's why Let's Dance is my favourite song of his - it reminds me of those times, and it has such a great groove."
And the Rolling Stones star will always have fond memories of recording Dancing in the Street with Bowie, chuckling, "We had to record the song and film the video all in one day. We walked straight from the studio onto the set of the video.
"At the end of the day, we were saying, 'See, it can be done! Why are we spending years in the studio?' We enjoyed camping it up. The video is hilarious to watch. It was the only time we really collaborated on anything, which is really stupid when you think about it."
The two rockers also became neighbours on Caribbean island, Mustique.
"David was so relaxed there, and so kind to everyone," Jagger recalled. "He did a lot of work making health care better for local people; I was doing school charity work, and he would come with me there and do story time with the local kids. It was really sweet."
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Allen has previously toured with Leona Lewis, John Legend and Christina Aguilera, and has also appeared as a semifinalist on season four of The Voice. Allen made her Broadway debut as Dionne in Hair and most recently starred in the national tour of Pippin.
The 72 year old has spent much of last few years touring the world with the Rolling Stones, and they are heading to South America in 2016 for the latest round of shows.However, Richards admits long-distance travel is much harder now he is older, and he often needs more than a week to recover.
He tells BBC Radio 2, "I went to Australia twice last year - and you better give it 10 days before you say I am ready to rock. Jet lag actually is a b**tard."During the interview, the rock legend also discusses the way digital technology has changed the music industry, insisting it will eventually "sort itself out", and music-based TV talent shows such as The X Factor, which he dismisses as a "search for fame".
He adds, "I don't see the point of making music into a competition. It is not the way it happens. If you get liked, and people like your music, it is because you put music out and lots of people buy it - and we like that. It is not a matter of getting on a TV show... I don't see that as the best way to run your career."
Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and his eldest son, James Jagger, were among the attendees of the star-studded New York City premiere of the HBO series "Vinyl" on Jan. 15, 2016. Mick Jagger is one of the executive producers of "Vinyl," while James Jagger is one of the show's cast members. James Jagger plays Kip Stevens, the lead singer/guitarist of a rock band called the Nasty Bits. "Vinyl," which is set in 1970s New York City, is about a music executive named Richie Finestra (played by Bobby Cannavale) who is struggling to keep his record company in business. "Vinyl" premieres on HBO on Feb. 14, 2016."Vinyl" reunites Cannavale and "Boardwalk Empire" executive producers Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, who also serve as executive producers of "Vinyl." Scorsese (who directed "Vinyl's" pilot episode) and Winter were also at the "Vinyl" premiere, which was held at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Other attendees at the "Vinyl" premiere included cast members Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple, Ray Romano, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Max Casella, Jack Quaid, P.J. Byrne, Susan Heyward, Emily Tremaine and Annie Parisse. Celebrity guests included Spike Lee, Glenn Close, Jason Sudeikis, Edie Falco, David Johansen and Harry Belafonte. James Jagger is prominently featured in a trailer for "Vinyl."
"Vinyl" has been in the works for several years. It was first reported in 2010 that the show would be on HBO
Giorgio Gomelsky, whose name was intertwined with the career of the Yardbirds and also figured in the early rise to fame of the Rolling Stones, died of cancer Jan. 14, according to various reports. His age was reported to be 82 by Dangerous Minds. Gomelsky was alerted to the Rolling Stones, then an unknown group whose members were sharing a flat, by Eric Clapton. He told author Timothy White, “When I first went there (the Crawdaddy Club), it was like a traditional jazz club that was kinda leaned toward R&B. I said to him, 'There's this little band that plays at the Marquee and the Ealing Club called the Rolling Stones. You should get them in.”
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Gomelsky did so in February, 1963 and got them an extended gig, but was later bypassed as their manager when the Stones signed a contract with Andrew Loog Oldham. In April, 1963, Gomelsky did arrange a historic meeting when he invited the Beatles to witness a Stones gig. It was the first meeting of the two bands, according to an interview with him on Eurock.
The group that replaced the Stones at the Crawdaddy Club was the Yardbirds and Gomelsky didn't make the same mistake this time as he did with the Stones. He told NY Press in an interview he knew they were what he was looking for right away. “I heard them as I walked up the stairs and I knew instantly I had found what I was looking for," he said. He produced the first Rhythm & Blues Festival with the Yardbirds, the Spencer Davis Group and Long John Baldry. His relationship with the Yardbirds lasted until 1966. He also managed Brian Auger and the Trinity (“This Wheel's On Fire”) and the T-Bones and was instrumental in the formation of Steampacket, an obscure group which featured both Julie Driscoll and Rod Stewart before he hooked up with the Faces.
Gomelsky later moved to France and took on progressive groups, including Magma and Gong. A series of “Rock Generation” albums featuring live shows from his rare tapes appeared on the French BYG label. He later started a record label of his own, Utopia Records, in 1975, which featured Albert King, among others. But he'll always be known for the Yardbirds, for whom he produced many songs, including “For Your Love,” “I'm a Man,” “I'm Not Talking,” “Mister, You're a Better Man Than I” and “Heart Full of Soul.” “The Yardbirds were cosmopolitan, they were a big-city band, so the synthesis was different and more complex,” he told NY Press. “Not to be vainglorious, but the reason why we did what we did was that nobody else was.”
On Jan. 11, 2016, Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger made a statement on Twitter following the death of his longtime friend David Bowie. According to the Associated Press, Bowie died of cancer on Jan. 10, 2016. He was 69. Jagger commented on Twitter: "David was always an inspiration to me and a true original. He was wonderfully shameless in his work. We had so many good times together. He was my friend, I will never forget him." In addition to influencing countless people and being icons in pop culture, Bowie and Jagger had many things in common, including owning homes in New York City, London and Mustique.
Bowie (whose real name was David Jones) and Jagger became friends in the early 1970s, when Bowie first rose to fame. Early in Bowie's career, he was often compared to Jagger because of their androgynous sexuality, frequent image transformations, and on-stage charisma. For decades, there have been stories and speculation that Jagger and Bowie were also lovers in the 1970s. It's a rumor that was reignited in 1990, when Bowie's first wife, Angela Bowie, went on Joan Rivers' talk show and claimed that she once caught Bowie and Jagger naked and asleep in bed together. Jagger long ago denied that story as "total rubbish," while David Bowie never really confirmed or denied the story, which was also repeated in Angela Bowie's memoirs and in other interviews she's given over the years. According to photographer Ken Regan in in his 2011 book "All Access: The Rock'n'Roll Photography of Ken Regan," when Jagger contemplated quitting the music business and relaunching his acting career in movies in the early 1980s, Jagger told Regan that he wanted to do a remake of "Some Like It Hot," the 1959 comedy classic that starred Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Jagger envisioned himself, David Bowie and Madonna as having the starring roles in the "Some Like It Hot" remake.
That "Some Like It Hot" movie remake never happened, but Jagger and Bowie's most notable collaboration was their 1985 duet cover version of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street," which reached No. 1 in the U.K. and was a Top 10 hit in several other countries. Jagger and Bowie's music video for the song debuted during the historic Live Aid televised concert. Bowie and Jagger performed this duet live in public for the first time at the Prince's Trust Concert in London in 1986.
Bowie, whose last tour ended in 2004, had been seriously ill for the past several years but kept his health condition relatively private, according to the Associated Press. His last studio album, Blackstar, was released on Jan. 8, 2016, his 69th birthday. Bowie is survived by his second wife, Iman, whom he married in 1992; his son, Duncan (born in 1971, from his first marriage); and his daughter, Alexandria, also known as Lexi (born in 2000, from his marriage to Iman).
