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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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If Charlie Watts was still in the band , and they played smaller venues where one doesn’t need giant screens to see the band I * might * fork over $ 100 to see them just to say I saw them .
“The Stones suck.” Last album I bought was Sticky Fingers and I was not that fond of that record . Did buy the Start Me Up 45 in the 80’s .
I’m sure Bruce Springsteen doesn’t do his own plumbing or electrical service jobs. Maybe ALL of us should get him a lecture on conservatism when fixing up his home.
He would love getting a lecture along with his plumbing being fixed.
If you watch Mick live, you’ll see that the videos ain’t lying’. He’s amazing. An athlete of another sort (or sport).
Only Charlie Watts has gone on, that I know of.
You call yourself a Christian
I think that you're a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit
And listen now, the gasoline
I drink it every day
But it's getting very pricey
And who is going to pay
How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con.... Yeah
But I guess the key word is "lecture" as in give speeches.
Mick has been a d!ck over the years ... decades ... half century ... but he's right about Bruce being a pain.
Sticky Fingers was the first album without now dead Brian Jones, Keith Richards was strung out on heroine so they hired Mick Taylor who wrote and played the guitar parts and cowrote the songs with Jagger.
The gave him zero song writing credits instead giving Mick’s royalies to Keith the heroine addict.
Mick was promised but did not have personal representation. Always wondered if he could sue them.
Died of “misadventure”, as I recall.🤷🏻
“Mick Taylor who wrote and played the guitar parts and cowrote the songs with Jagger.
The gave him zero song writing credits instead giving Mick’s royalies to Keith the heroine addict.”
I was happily unaware of this . That’s tells one all one needs to know about Jagger and Richard .
“Brian Jones, arguably the founder of The Stones.”
Not arguably ; he was the founder and original leader .
Oh, right! I totally forgot about Brian Jones!
That was much more interesting than I might have guessed. Sir Mick certainly is an artful dodger when the questions get too personal, and well he should be by now. I admire him as a survivor, outstanding music or not, and a person of incredible energy and intellectual curiosity.
Saw the Stones live twice: 1966 and 1969, the second time with Chuck Berry opening. The first one may have been Carly Simon opening, I’m not sure. In this interview he acknowledges the huge debt the Stones owe to American black music, which has been a gift to the art, and also to have filtered through the Stones’ more or less ancient musical heritage, which Mick also mentions.
The interview has made me want to dig around YouTube to revisit (or visit new) a number of the songs Mick or the interviewer mentioned. The interviewer David Marchese apparently wasn’t born when the Stones started out, but he obviously has spent literally years learning volumes about them. Well done, Mick and David, both of them.
I suppose its ‘an idea’ if you used to be some well known musician now forgotten or past any relevancy, with nothing new to say musically, and no one is interested in your latest ‘art’ project as they once were. Bumping concert sales from the free publicity.
Then sure, even a lazy Road Manager knows any street brawling trainwreck ‘shock’ style buzzfeed promoted news bashing of President Trump will instantly be pimped off the wire by Google, Yahoo and Facebook news.
Certainly it may approximate a little of the old excitement for them, if only imaginary.
Or if you’re say just a B-lister ‘star’ or Patton Oswalt type who no-one normal has ever heard of, it works in reverse.
Even after all the drugs, not all brain cells are fried.
The guy talks sense!!!
What a happy surprise!!!!!
Mick Jagger has always had his head on straight. He might be the best businessman in rock and roll.
He had a drug scare very early on in his career which steered him away from chemical excesses (unlike his bandmates).
He figured out very quickly that there was no greater high than making money and that became his drug of choice.
Oh right! I had totally forgotten that song. A classic.
Your statement is kind of funny to me for when I saw The Beatles live in August of 1966, they played only their past hits like "She's a Woman" "I Feel Fine" "Yesterday" and none of the new songs off their brand new Revolver album like "Taxman" "Eleanor Rigby" "Good Day Sunshine" "Dr. Robert" etc. nor any of the songs from the Rubber Soul album.
“Hehe..While raking in avg. of $ 250 a ticket to see him .”
Tee hee. I bitched when the Stones charged $5 for their 1972 tour. Everyone else was at $4.50 or $4.
Even stoned, Sir Mick makes more sense than Bruuuce.
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