Editing Mick Jagger (section)

==Early life and education==
Michael Philip Jagger was born into a [[Social class in the United Kingdom|middle-class]] family in [[Dartford]], Kent, on 26&nbsp;July 1943.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/gallery/ |title=Baptism entry for Mick Jagger, rock musician, from the registers of Dartford St. Alban for 6&nbsp;October 1943. |last=Anon |work=[[Medway Council|Medway City Ark Document Gallery]] |access-date=17 September 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805091229/http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/gallery/ |archive-date=5 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mick Jagger defies years as he hits pension age|date=25 July 2008|work=Reuters|access-date=16 July 2022|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jagger-idUSL599776420080725}}</ref> His father, Basil Fanshawe "Joe" Jagger, was a gymnast and physical education teacher who helped popularise basketball in Britain.<ref name="telegraph-3656537"/><ref>{{harvnb|Norman|2012|p=959}}: "Joe Jagger, that onetime wiry gymnast, was now a frail eighty-eight-year-old, lost without his partner of almost sixty years."</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jagger's father dies |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/jaggers-father-dies-20061113-gdotb2.html |access-date=28 May 2021 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=13 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528095332/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/jaggers-father-dies-20061113-gdotb2.html |archive-date=28 May 2021 |quote=Basil "Joe" Jagger, a physical education teacher who helped popularise basketball in Britain, died at a hospital in Kingston, Surrey, about a week after he was injured during a fall at his home.}}</ref> His paternal grandfather, David Ernest Jagger, was also a teacher.<ref name="Barratt-2006">{{cite news |last1=Barratt |first1=Nick |title=Family detective: Mick Jagger |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435133/Family-detective-Mick-Jagger.html |access-date=28 May 2021 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=24 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609143320/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435133/Family-detective-Mick-Jagger.html |archive-date=9 June 2010 |quote=This suggested that some family upheaval had taken place, which was confirmed by an examination of David senior's life. David Jagger, Mick's great-grandfather, was born in Morley, Yorkshire, in 1845.}}</ref> His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (''née'' Scutts), born in [[Sydney]] of [[English people|English]] descent, was a hairdresser who was politically active in the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in the United Kingdom.<ref name="telegraph-3656537">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3656537/RIP-Jumping-Jack-Flash-senior.html |title=RIP Jumping Jack Flash senior |last=Edwards |first=Adam |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235 |date=14 November 2006 |access-date=3 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813105925/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3656537/RIP-Jumping-Jack-Flash-senior.html|archive-date=13 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Barratt-2006" /><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Eva Jagger, 1913–2000 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eva-jagger-1913-2000-237886/|last=Decurtis|first=Anthony|date=6 July 2000|url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=3 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904014606/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eva-jagger-1913-2000-20000706 |archive-date=4 September 2017|url-access=limited}}</ref> His parents were married in 1940 at [[Holy Trinity Church, Dartford|Holy Trinity Church]] in Dartford.<ref>Christopher Sandford, ''The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years'' (Simon and Schuster, London, 2021), p. 22.</ref> Jagger's younger brother, [[Chris Jagger|Chris]] (born 19&nbsp;December 1947), is also a musician,<ref>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=p18475|pure_url=yes}}|title=Chris Jagger biography at|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=31 December 2009}}</ref> and the two have performed together.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |url=https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/yahoo-music/chris-jagger-keeps-grooving-little-help-little-brother-204259299.html |title=Chris Jagger Keeps on Grooving With a Little Help From Big Brother Mick |work=[[Yahoo! Music]] |date=6 December 2013 |access-date=28 June 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407105552/https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/yahoo-music/chris-jagger-keeps-grooving-little-help-little-brother-204259299.html |archive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

Although he was encouraged to follow his father's career path growing up, Jagger has said, "I always sang as a child. I was one of those kids who just liked to sing. Some kids sing in choirs; others like to show off in front of the mirror. I was in the church choir and I also loved listening to singers on the radio—the [[BBC]] or [[Radio Luxembourg]]—or watching them on TV and in the movies."{{sfn|Jagger|Richards|Watts|Wood|2003|p=13}}

In September 1950, [[Keith Richards]] and Jagger first met as classmates at [[Wentworth Primary School]] in Dartford, prior to the Jagger family's 1954 move to [[Wilmington, Kent]].{{sfn|Nelson|2010|p=8}} The same year he passed the [[eleven-plus]] examination and attended [[Dartford Grammar School]], which now has [[the Mick Jagger Centre]] performing arts venue.<ref name="AtSchool">{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/696156.stm|title=Jagger's family affair at school|website=BBC News|date=30 March 2000|access-date=6 November 2019}}</ref> Jagger and Richards lost contact with each other when they went to different schools.<ref name="Jagger Remembers" />

In the mid-1950s, Jagger began his music career, forming a [[garage band]] with his friend [[Dick Taylor]]. They played songs by [[Muddy Waters]], [[Chuck Berry]], [[Little Richard]], [[Howlin' Wolf]], and [[Bo Diddley]].{{sfn|Nelson|2010|p=8}} Jagger met Richards again on 17 October 1961 on Platform Two of [[Dartford railway station]].<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=17 October 2011 |title=Anniversary of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Dartford meeting |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-15333771 |access-date=13 April 2018 |website=BBC News |archive-date=8 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508032502/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-15333771 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger was carrying revealed a shared interest in [[rhythm and blues]].<ref name="The Rolling Stones-2017">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rollingstones.com/artist/mick-jagger/|title=Mick Jagger – The Rolling Stones|website=The Rolling Stones|access-date=3 September 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903121800/http://www.rollingstones.com/artist/mick-jagger/|archive-date=3 September 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|White|2003|pp=119–120}} A musical partnership began shortly afterwards.{{sfn|Nelson|2010|p=9}}{{sfn|Greenfield|1981}} Richards and Taylor often met Jagger at his house. In late 1961, the meetings moved to Taylor's house, where Alan Etherington and Bob Beckwith joined the trio. The quintet called themselves the Blues Boys.{{sfn|Nelson|2010|pp=10–11}}

Jagger left school in 1961 after passing seven [[O-levels]] and two [[A-levels]].<ref name="AtSchool" /> He and Richards moved into a flat at Edith Grove in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], London, with guitarist [[Brian Jones]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 June 1990 |title=Street fighting men from the suburbs |page=43 |work=The Independent |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105718626/street-fighting-men-from-the-suburbs/ |access-date=16 July 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> While Richards and Jones planned to start their own rhythm and blues group, Jagger continued to study finance and accounting<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dunford|first=Kara|date=27 August 2015|title="A Life of Adventure" – LSE at 120|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2015/08/27/a-life-of-adventure-lse-at-120/|access-date=19 August 2020|website=[[London School of Economics]]|language=en-UK|archive-date=16 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200816230529/https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2015/08/27/a-life-of-adventure-lse-at-120/|url-status=live}}</ref> on a government grant as an [[British undergraduate degree classification|undergraduate]] student at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-lse-alumni |title=The 17 most successful alumni from the London School of Economics |work=[[Business Insider]] |date=22 May 2016 |access-date=8 September 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820180342/http://uk.businessinsider.com/most-famous-lse-alumni |archive-date=20 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mick Jagger Fast Facts|url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/24/world/europe/mick-jagger-fast-facts/index.html|access-date=19 August 2020|website=[[CNN]]|date=25 June 2013|archive-date=7 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907224044/https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/24/world/europe/mick-jagger-fast-facts/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He had seriously considered becoming either a journalist or a politician, comparing the latter to a pop star.{{sfn|Tremlett|1974|pp=109–110}}{{sfn|Andersen|2012|p=49}}

Brian Jones, using the name Elmo Lewis, began working at the [[Ealing Jazz Club|Ealing Club]], where a loose music ensemble known as [[Blues Incorporated]] was performing, under the leadership of [[Alexis Korner]]. Jones, Richards, and Jagger began playing with the group, with Jagger eventually becoming the band's lead singer. Jones, Richards, and Jagger  began meeting on their own to practise, establishing the foundation for what would become the Rolling Stones.<ref name="stonemag2" />