Even at the age of 80, Mick Jagger is still in great shape and runs for hours across the world’s major stages. In a recent interview, the Rolling Stones frontman talks about his remarkable state of health – and what he thinks is the reason for it.
“I’m very lucky that I’m so healthy,” says Jagger in an interview with “The Wall Street Journal.” He doesn’t mention that his fitness is definitely the result of hard work, healthy eating and discipline – he presents his good health more as a stroke of luck: “That’s more luck than anything else. Simply genetic,” said the singer.
Jagger: Quick recovery after heart surgery
Jagger’s heart surgery in 2019 is also briefly mentioned in the detailed interview. The recovery was quick back then: “You’ll be in the gym in two weeks,” he is quoted as saying. Jagger’s personal happiness is also likely to be beneficial for his health: “I have a really wonderful family that supports me. And I have small children who make me feel important,” said the singer.
We previously reported:
First there hasn’t been a new Rolling Stones album with their own material for eighteen years, and then this! If Mick Jagger has his way, it’s not over yet after the long player “Hackney Diamonds”, which will be released on October 20, 2023. Quite the opposite, as the legendary frontman revealed in an interview.
The band has already finished a large part of the material for another record, the 80-year-old told the New York Times. The key sentence in the interview: “I don’t think it’s the last Rolling Stones album. We’re almost three quarters of the way through the next one.”
Fast studio work
Why did it end up happening so quickly once the band was finally in the studio? Jagger explains it this way: “I said to Keith, ‘If we don’t have a deadline, we’re never going to finish this record.’ So I was like, ‘The deadline is Valentine’s Day 2023. And then we’ll go on tour with it. That’s what we’ve always had to do. You know, you have to finish ‘Exile on Main Street’ because you have a tour booked.”
In conversation, Richards calls the recording process a “blitzkrieg”: “We worked quickly, but that was the idea,” says the guitarist, who adds with a laugh: “I’m still recovering.”