June 24, 2026

Mick Jagger

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Mick Jagger's birthday: The Rolling Stones, rock and roll rebels, and stadium legends.

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Calaruga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison. In today's theme

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is Mick Jagger's Birthday? The Rolling Stones Rock and roll

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rebels and stadium legends. Question one. Mick Jagger blows out

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his candles on July twenty sixth each year. What English

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town also the hometown of Keith Richards was he born in?

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And where the two famously reconnected as teens on a

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train platform? Question two? Before they were stadium legends, they

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needed a name. Which blues artist and song inspired the

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band's moniker, The Rolling Stones in nineteen sixty two? Question three.

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That unmistakable tongue in lips logo became a global pop icon.

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On Which nineteen seventy one Rolling Stones album did it

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first appear prominently? Question four. After a nineteen sixty seven

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drug raid, a leading British newspaper published the headline who

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breaks a butterfly on a wheel? Defending Mick Jagger against

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a harsh sentence? What newspaper ran that influential editorial? Question five.

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As pioneers of the modern megatur the Rolling Stones set

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box office records. Which of their mid nineteen nineties tours

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became the highest grossing concert tour up to that point.

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We'll be right back with these answers after this break.

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Welcome back. Question one, in which English town were Jagger

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and Richards born and later reunited? Answer? Dartford, Kent born

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July twenty sixth, nineteen forty three. Jagger hails from Dartford.

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He and Keith Richards, childhood classmates, rekindled their friendship at

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Dartford Railway station in nineteen sixty one, an encounter that

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helped set the Rolling Stones in motion. Question two, Which

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blues song inspired the band's name? Answer Muddy Waters rollin Stone.

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Brian Jones reportedly chose the name after spotting Muddy Water's

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rollin Stone on a record sleeve during a phone call.

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The choice reflects the band's deep roots in American blues.

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Question three, Which album first featured the tongue and lips logo?

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Answer Sticky Fingers, designed by John Pashey and paired with

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Andy Warhol's famous zipper cover. The logo debuted with Sticky Fingers.

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Its bold design, partly inspired by the Hindu goddess Kali,

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became synonymous with the band. Question four, which paper ran

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who breaks a butterfly on a wheel in nineteen sixty

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seven answer. The Times London editor William Rhyese magg used

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the editorial to criticize Jagger's treatment following the Redlands raid.

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It signaled a cultural shift in how establishment media viewed

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youth and rock and roll rebels. Question five. Which Stone's

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tour set a mid nineties gross record? Answer The Voodoo

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Lounge Tour nineteen ninety four ninety five, Grossing over three

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hundred million dollars worldwide. Voodoo Lounge established a new benchmark

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for stadium touring. Its scale and production helped define the

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blueprint for subsequent global concert tours. That concludes today's five

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daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were

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crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.

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