Turning 75 a few days ago, the once notorious playboy rocker Mick Jagger, leader of the Rolling Stones, is still shaking up the music world with his “rolling stones.”

While fellow countrymen the Beatles dominated the charts with songs that made fans “crazy”, the Rolling Stones “played better” in the rebellious aspect.

The legendary band from a fateful meeting at… the train station

Together with Jones and his friend Keith Richards, Jagger founded the Rolling Stones after just “getting wet” as a singer in Alexis Korner’s blues band. Legend has it that Jagger and Richards met at a train station in Dartford, Kent (England) – where he was born on July 26, 1943.

On that “fateful” day in 1961, when Jagger was on his way from his hometown to London to study Economics at the University of Economics, he met Richards. The two decided to meet again and make music. About a year later, the Rolling Stones were born.

Since then, Jagger and Richards have been the “pair” of Rolling Stones’ best-selling songs and have been compared to John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

With their highly enthusiastic and much-praised performances, Jagger created the “brand” for the Rolling Stones, while Richards had “unique” guitar “riffs”.

In 1965, Jagger and the Rolling Stones came to German fans and were enthusiastically received with a concert in Munster on 11 September. But four days later, the Rolling Stones showed how rebellious they were. The Rolling Stones’ venue in Waldbuhne, Berlin, was destroyed after hours of clashes between police and fans. It took seven years for the arena to be rebuilt and reopened.

Also in 1965, along with other band members Brian Jones and Bill Wyman, Jagger was arrested on charges of “indecent conduct” for “urinating” at a gas station. That action further tarnished the Rolling Stones’ “bad boy” image, as fans realized what kind of “rebels” the band’s boys really were.

However, along with the scandal, the Rolling Stones still created a reputation with “hits”. Specifically, just a short time later, the Rolling Stones became famous worldwide with I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, a hit song considered the “hymn” of an entire generation.

Jagger has always been considered an extremely talented person, with a sharp mind at work, but he is a “many talents but many faults” when his life is always involved in scandals.

Although the “bad boy” quality created the image of the Rolling Stones at one time, now every time Jagger mentions that scandalous era, he explains that at that time the band members were just young boys who felt strange and wanted to try new things, but had no intention of creating a “bad boy” image.

That was the time when Jagger and his co-founder of the “Rolling Stones”, guitarist Brian Jones, were “drowned” in drugs and alcohol. But Jagger was lucky to escape those addictive “demons” and remained famous with the Rolling Stones, while Jones did not and passed away in 1969, at the age of 27.

Jagger’s private life was also problematic. In 1970, Jagger told the German magazine Musik Express that he had no intention of living an easy life with his wife and children.

A year later, he married Bianca Perez Morena. His first daughter, Karis, was born in 1970, not to his wife, but to singer Marsha Hunt. Jagger’s first marriage lasted until 1979, and the divorce from Morena cost him $2.5 million.

Jagger’s second marriage, to former model Jerry Hall, lasted from 1990 to 1999. Jagger has had many other “beautiful women” in his life, including L’Wren Scott, the American fashion designer who committed suicide in 2014. Jagger is currently in a relationship with Melanie Hamrick, a dancer 43 years his junior, who gave birth to a son in 2016.

Jagger has eight children and two grandchildren. Despite being in his late seventies, the age to “enjoy old age”, Jagger has very little time for his large family. When he is not touring with the Rolling Stones, he is always busy with solo projects or performing with famous colleagues.

It is worth noting that while many colleagues of the same age have retired, Jagger still creates the same attraction on stage as when he was in his 20s. The Rolling Stones are on tour again this year and the band has just completed the second leg of the No Filter world tour. According to Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones have no intention of “stopping rolling”.