Sir Mick Jagger<\/a>\u2019s dad was against him being a rocker.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sir Mick Jagger\u2019s dad was against him being a rocker<\/p>\n
The 80-year-old Rolling Stones frontman says his father Basil Fanshawe \u2018Joe\u2019 Jagger was an academic who hated the idea of him going into the \u201carts\u201d \u2013 but said he gave him his love of fitness.<\/p>\n
Mick told The Times about his late dad: \u201cHe was inspiring in terms of physical exercise.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn\u2019t that tough a father, not a severe disciplinarian or anything like that, but he taught me how physicality was important.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he didn\u2019t do, what he was so against, actually, was me being involved in any way in the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWhen asked if his dad approved of him joining a rock band, \u2018(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u2019 singer Mick added: \u201cNo, he did not. He was an academic person and a teacher and a fitness enthusiast.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat meant he taught me how to be academic, how to learn things and how to be fit.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cClearly I had a whole other part of me that wanted to be creative, but it was my own fault.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe school I went to (Dartford Grammar School) did have theatre, it did have performance, it did have music \u2013 none of which I participated in at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMick\u2019s dad was a gymnast and physical education teacher who helped popularise basketball in Britain and wrote two books about the callisthenics movement.<\/p>\n
\nThe singer\u2019s paternal grandfather David Ernest Jagger was also a teacher.<\/p>\n
\nMick admitted he didn\u2019t always want to be a singer, and said he was also interested in films and acting.<\/p>\n
\nHe added when asked by The Times if singing had been his ambition: \u201cYeah, kind of. I was also interested in films. I was interested in acting.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo why wasn\u2019t I in any of the school productions? Obviously I wasn\u2019t particularly interested after all.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBut you can\u2019t do everything, can you? There was so much academic work to do, and so much sport, and my father certainly didn\u2019t lead me down that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDad-of-eight Mick added: \u201cWith my children, if they want to do acting classes I\u2019ll say, \u2018Do acting classes.\u2019 That\u2019s the modern parent for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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