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Title: Jagger Unauthorized by Christopher Andersen ISBN: 0-385-30825-6 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (5 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Okay Book With Proofreading & Fact-Checking Errors
Comment: The one thing that harms the credibility of this book is poor proofreading and fact-checking. It should have been more thoroughly vetted before publication. That said, it's not a bad book. Anderson is a credible journalist with some good sources, including John Dunbar (ex-husband of Jagger girlfriend Marianne Faithfull, and friend to both the Beatles and Stones), Chrissie Shrimpton (Jagger's girlfriend prior to Marianne), and Bebe Buell (Jagger girlfriend in the '70s). Anderson does a decent job of telling the Stones history. It gets really wild in the '70s, when Mick gets into the lifestyle of that period, including drugs and bisexuality. The book makes a case that Mick not only has had gay experiences, but fairly serious gay relationships with fellow musicians, including members of the Rolling Stones. Perhaps it can be discounted as tabloid trash, but one only needs to listen to Stones songs and read the lyrics to realize that Jagger actually does have a fair number of male-to-male relationship referencing songs to his credit. So, it's perhaps arguable that if Anderson's allegations are true, it directly impacted the Stones' art. Unfortunately, Anderson doesn't even get into that aspect, which would have made his book more credible and interesting. But what do you expect from something that calls itself "Jagger: Unauthorized"? With the facts at hand, some very seedy and objectionable, the book could have been much more. At times, it reads like Kitty Kelley's biography of Frank Sinatra. The Jagger revealed here has a similar temperament and egotism of Sinatra. The Stones even used the Hell's Angels in a similar way at times as Sinatra used the Mob (only Frank's Mob connections never directly led to anyone being killed, unlike the Angels killing someone at Altamont). The end result of the book is that Mick Jagger seems to be both an objectionable and pathetic person, in spite of his talent and success. Nonetheless, it's highly entertaining to read about this mixture of talent and excess.

Rating: 1
Summary: POO-POO!
Comment: All tabloid garbage. This is the one Mick tried to stop publication. Alot of Anderson's claims are seriously waaay out there! Mick bit off a piece of his tongue in a high school basketball game forever changing his voice? Before becoming famous pop-singer Madonna was a Stones groupie?? As a teenager Mick lost his virginity to a sexy hospital nurse?? Anderson's 'source notes' do not provide specific substantiation to any of his claims. Even the baby photo of Mick is really a baby photo of Charlie!! Now i seriously doubt he would be able to get his text right if he can't even get a photo right?!! Come on now!

Rating: 1
Summary: Jagger Unauthorized is a waste of time
Comment: I was hoping to read an interesting book on Mick Jagger's life. I picked this piece of thrash up at the library. It is horribly written. I don't believe any editing was done on the book. In one passage, Anderson mistakenly writes "himself" in reference to Jagger's lover, Marianne Faithful. I'm glad I borrowed this from the public library. I wouldn't spend a dime on this book.