Symphony for the devil: Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday

1 The boy maketh the man. Eva Jagger said of her son: “I always had the feeling that Mike would be something. He was a very adventurous boy when he was younger, but then later he became interested in money. It always struck [me] as odd. Money doesn’t usually interest little boys, but it did Mike.”

2. Mick Jagger was always Mick Jagger. In 1959, he appeared on ATV’s Seeing Sport, in a sequence on climbing for young people, filmed in Tunbridge Wells, The presenter, John Disley, holds Jagger’s (“Michael’s”) foot up to show his footwear. The young Jagger looks up at him with complete disdain.

3. The Stones’ origin story is peerless. Keith Richards encountering his childhood friend Jagger at Dartford Station in 1961, the latter carrying copies of The Best of Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry’s Rockin’ at the Hops, and the pair falling in together again instantly.

4. Jagger invented the idea of a frontman. Not a solo singer. Not a band member. A frontman. Everyone since has been imitating him, one way or another.

5. He – and the Stones – were British rock’s first authentic moral threat.

6. Look at clips of the Stones from 1964. Jagger had the greatest hair in the world.

7. Liam Gallagher isn’t fit to wear a parka in the presence of the amazing David Bailey shot of Jagger hugging his fur-lined hood to his face in 1964.

8. Look, too, at the clip of the Stones doing Little Red Rooster on Ready Steady Go! that year. See how Jagger stares the camera down, defying anyone to question him.

9. Alternatively, look at his twitching-leg dance to their version of Chuck Berry’s Around and Around. You wouldn’t believe a man jerking his leg could be so sexual.

10. “You do tend to present a yobbish image.” he replied, deliciously.