Mick Jagger Had Bisexual Flings With Bandmates, New Book Claims
October 9, 2022Mick Jagger allegedly had same-sex affairs with two of his fellow Rolling Stones band mates, according to a new book written by music journalist Lesley-Ann Jones.
Jones has also written biographies on other queer music stars David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. The latest book, The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones, Jones claims that Jagger had sexual encounters with guitarist and songwriter Keith Richards, the band’s former guitarist Mick Taylor, Bowie, and also bisexual Austrian actor Helmut Berger.
For the book, apparently, Richard’s ex-lover Anita Pallenberg and Jagger’s ex-partner Marianne Faithfull confirmed Jagger’s relationship with Richards. “From when I first met them, I saw Mick was in love with Keith,” Pallenberg said.
Faithfull added, “I had an inkling that there was a sexual undercurrent between them. I knew in some part of my head that Mick was bisexual.”
According to LGBTQ Nation, the book also quotes Paul Levett who said that Taylor’s former wife Rose Millar once mentioned finding Taylor and Jagger in bed together. “Why would she say such a thing to me, if she had not seen it with her own eyes?” Levett says in the book.
Throughout his career, Jagger has been known for his gender-nonconforming stage persona. He has experimented with makeup, glam-rock fashions, and flamboyant stage moves.
Jagger was also a regular patron of New York’s Studio 54. He was seen with other gay icons, such as writer Truman Capote, fashion designer Halston, and dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Jagger also appeared alongside Bowie in a very flamboyant video for their 1985 cover of Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street.”
In the 1970 British crime drama Performance, Jagger played a reclusive, eccentric, bisexual former rock star. He is currently 79 years old and is partnered with American ballerina Melanie Hamrick.
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