As the Rolling Stones return with Hackney Diamonds – out now, and their first full-length album of original songs in 18 years – revisit Gary Kemp reflecting on watching Mick Jagger perform live for the first time. It was originally published on 26 July, 2023 to mark the rock’n’roll icon’s 80th birthday
I once read that during the first-half of the last century, the two most internationally recognisable images were of Christ on the cross and the silhouette of Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp. Charlie was a global phenomenon and cinema’s most universal icon. He was also well-known for his many relationships and having children into his 70s. I think we can now safely add to those two images the Rolling Stones’ famous Lips and Tongue logo, which, as we all know, was based on Mick Jagger’s own legendary rubber gob.
