Basil Fanshawe (Joe) Jagger, 93, father of Sir Mick...

[Michael Rhodes]

Without the lips, stamina and Puritan ethic of Joe Jagger, who died at
the weekend, there would have been no Mick, says Adam Edwards

It may be that the death of 93-year-old Basil Fanshawe Jagger (known to
everybody as Joe) is thought of as no more than a footnote in the
history of English rock and roll.

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Joe Jagger ended his days in Kingston Hospital, dying from pneumonia
following a fall two weeks ago at his Surrey home. But it was this
otherwise unassuming pensioner whom Sir Mick himself called the
greatest influence in his life.

Without Joe Jagger's puritanism there would have been no rebel
complaining about not getting any satisfaction. Without the inheritance
of Joe's big lips the rock star caricature would not have been born.