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Jerry Hall

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a Mick Jagger Capsule

Mick Jagger:  born in 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England (18  miles south-east of Central London)

Mick's father was a teacher, who did not want Mick to become a musician

band:  The Rolling Stones

        Known since the 1970s as "the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world"

Rolling Stones essential albums:

    Beggars Banquet

    Let It Bleed

    Exile On Main Street

    Sticky Fingers

essential songs:

    Brown Sugar

    Honky Tonk Women

    It's Only Rock and Roll

    Tumbling Dice

Mick Jagger's current age:  78 years

current activity:  Rolling Stones concert tour of Europe

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I became aware of who Jerry Hall was, only because of her relationship with Mick Jagger.  However, she is an interesting person, too.  Back in the 1970s, you would hear of people going off to Europe to become fashion models.  That was what Jerry Hall did.

She was born in Gonzales, Texas, in 1956, and grew up in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas.  The dad had anger issues and there was violence in the home, so all five daughters left as soon as they could.

        As a teenager, Jerry was in a car wreck, and at the hospital they gave her a drug and she had an allergic reaction:  they paid her some money to not sue them (or something) -- she took that small amount of money and bought a ticket to Paris, France.

From Paris, she went to Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera; her first day on the beach wearing a crocheted pink bikini, a man approached her and asked if she would like to be a model, and gave her his card.

And that's how her whole modeling career got started.

I first read this story of her life in the early '80s, in a magazine -- maybe Vogue, or Vanity Fair.  Unique and haunting, I never forgot it.  Plus she was Mick Jagger's girlfriend, one could not forget that, either.

        The idea of someone who is a fashion model made an impression on my mind and imagination, but it was a light impression.

        Someone who makes great music -- Bob Dylan; Mick Jagger and the rest of the Rolling Stones, etc. -- they made a much more profound impression on my thoughts than fashion models did, but over time my interest in the visual arts has increased somewhat.  I'm interested in that, too.  I have Jerry Hall's book, and I'm glad to learn what she can teach about aesthetics and art and fashion.

        Part of it is just her own enthusiasm for the art-forms she gravitates to naturally.  You read, or listen to her talk in an interview, and then say, "OK! -- I'm in!"

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