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Posted on 07/14/2026 4:02:43 PM PDT by Twotone
Rolling Stones frontman and rock-n-roll legend Mick Jagger says a singer should avoid politics and should simply just entertain his fans, unlike extreme left-wing scold Bruce Springsteen, who constantly lectures his fans from the stage.
Jagger, 82, delivered his opinion on a New York Times podcast last week when Times correspondent David Marchese noted that the Born in the USA singer feels that he needs to impose his politics on his audience at every concert.
Marchese claimed that Springsteen “clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth” with his audience. That is a curious way to frame Springsteen’s haranguing of his audience from the stage. In fact, there is little “back” from the audience. With Springsteen, as its all “forth” from the stage.
Marchese then asked Jagger how he felt about all that.
Jagger, though, was completely dismissive of Springsteen’s need to bully his fans.
“The bottom line of my thing, really, is that my job in the live music world is [for] those people that come is to have the best time they possibly can,” Jagger said.
“For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems and the problems of the world and their mortgages and whatever, just to give them the best time they can have,” Jagger continued.
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The King got it
Video
Elvis Presley refuses to use his fame to insert himself into politics
https://rumble.com/v63xjjg-elvis-presley-refuses-to-use-his-fame-to-insert-himself-into-politics.html
A moment of lucidity from Freak Jagger.
Plain ole’ common sense from none other than Mick Jagger. Who’d ever have thunk that?
But then, as one of my Old Fart morning coffee group succinctly put it, common sense AIN’T very common.
And now a word from Ringo Starr:
“I don’t talk politics. That way, everyone thinks I agree with them.”
Smart guy, that Ringo.
🥁
Even Mick Jagger has common sense… that Bruce Springsteen does not have.
I once walked out of a Steve Earle concert when he launched into a diatribe about George Bush. Then I realized I forgot my scarf so had to sheepishly go back :(
No one expects normalcy from the sewer that is Joisey.
> “For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems…” <
I never thought much about Mick Jagger, one way or another. His music is not my style of music.
But that quote is worthy of respect. I pay a plumber to fix a leak, not to hear his views on the world. Same kind of idea goes when I go to a concert.
Two thumbs up on this one, Mick.
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I have always been a fan of the Rolling Stones, since I had my first AM radio in the mid-sixties...Even the song Street Fightin Man asked the question, “what can a po boy do, ‘cept to sing in a rock n roll band?” Perhaps the most “political” song was Salt of the Earth on Beggar’s Banquet (1968)
Let’s drink to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let’s drink to the salt of the earth
“How to be on the top of the charts at 82”
https://youtu.be/SKuT0Yb4R4U?si=41yf0v0ZAU6rTxRP
A case of TDS has been cured! This former sufferer says how.
I pay a plumber to fix a leak, not to hear his views on the world. Same kind of idea goes when I go to a concert.
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A musician is more likely to be a pot smoker. I would trust the views of the plumber more.
Before giving him too many good boy points...
Last month, in a separate interview, the band’s frontman, Mick Jagger, told MOJO that “Ringing Hollow” is “about America as an idea.”
“The American Dream is intact for some people, and I’m sure we can find some wonderful immigrant stories that happened in the last 12 months, but we read about the decline of the American Empire,” Jagger claimed.
STFU and sing. Mick ain’t wrong. Damn! Can’t beat that.
I haven’t been a real fan either, but if you watch a Stones concert video you’ll see the raw energy that he puts into every song. Pure showmanship.
He’s a great entertainer.
Bruce Transgender Bathroom Springsteen 🤦🤦♀️🤦♂️
Wow, Mick shows some maturity, good judgment and common sense. And delivers a simple lesson in basic showmanship.
Did you at least stay until he played Telephone Road?
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