MICK JAGGER
BORN IN DARTFORD, KENT (1943)
Find out more about Dartford born musician Mick Jagger
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each other, Richards on Chastilian Road and Jagger on Denver Road, before moving to Wilmington a few years later. Of course we all know that Jagger went on to study at Dartford Grammar School thanks to the aptly named Mick Jagger Centre! This facility was named after Sir Mick and added to the boys school in 2000. A multi-purpose venue with a passion for inspiring a love for arts and music; Jagger generously funds the ‘Red Rooster’ project, which aims to teach key musical skills to children in the community in group sessions at the centre (currently online!) and in local primary schools. The most famous spot in Dartford -before it got renovated- seemed to be platform 2 of Dartford Train Station, the location which reunited Jagger and Richards. The story goes that Jagger was on his way to the London School of Economics -something that sounds very far from the Mick Jagger everyone has come to know- when Richards turned up to get his train to the art school he was attending. That was the catalyst for what would become The Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger is definitely one of the largest and most inspiring people to come from Dartford, but the thing What would a ‘Straight out of You could say his ease and comfort that sticks with me is the legacy he Dartford’ piece be without an in front of the camera showed early left behind in our small town. article on the most famous man signs of where his life was headed. to have been born here. This article http://www.themickjaggercentre. is about Mick Jagger’s connection There are several locations around com/red-rooster.html to locations throughout our town Dartford that have become hotspots https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/ rather than his rise to stardom, as for tourists thanks to, not only people/mick-jagger-on-his-love-offacts surrounding that are widely Jagger, but also his bandmate and dartford-7284366 known to most who care already! childhood friend, Keith Richards. Pat https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/ Michael Jagger, as he was formerly on the back if you can place them all! mick-jagger-rolling-stones-tv-debutknown back then, had his TV debut The pair met and became steadfast aged-15/ when he was just 15 ears old on a friends from an early age when they TV show called Seeing Sport which both attended Wentworth Primary. his father had a weekly segment on. It helped that they also lived close to
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