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MitchSeaGull
Mick, his meeting with Maggie when he was 10 years old and how ballet keeps him fit
The star also revealed details of his tough fitness regime, which involves training up to six days a week in a bid to maintain his 28in waist and prepare him for the 12 miles he is estimated to cover during a typical stage show.
He swears by ballet to help his balance, and also studies yoga and pilates.
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MitchSeaGull
Maybe the reason Mick and the Stones were able to move back to England from France was Thatcher's lowering the exorbitant taxes that made them leave?
P.S. Am I the only one who doubts that he really moves 12 miles at every concert? that has to be a gag.
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odean73
Sad to read that one of my music hero's admired the one British politician that I hated so much.
But we always knew it thou.
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odean73
Sad to read that one of my music hero's admired the one British politician that I hated so much.
But we always knew it thou.
Hello! He also did not say that he admired her.
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MitchSeaGull
Maybe the reason Mick and the Stones were able to move back to England from France was Thatcher's lowering the exorbitant taxes that made them leave?
P.S. Am I the only one who doubts that he really moves 12 miles at every concert? that has to be a gag.
6 miles every hour? Possible, certainly in the early days...probably a bit of a stretch now, but it's definitely at least half that.
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MitchSeaGull
Funny thing about Thatcher, when she was in office she was wildly popular. Over the years people's memories have changed and she is now considered equivalent to a Nazi. Strange. Her years were very prosperous ones for Britain.
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MitchSeaGull
Funny thing about Thatcher, when she was in office she was wildly popular. Over the years people's memories have changed and she is now considered equivalent to a Nazi. Strange. Her years were very prosperous ones for Britain.
This is nonsense.
The majority never voted for her.
Ever.
I was there.
Propsperity?
For the minority, yes.
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Stoneage
Nor Thatcher neither Reagan "destroyed" The Soviet Union. If you are to give one person the credit for that (which of course is wrong) you might mention Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov. Then you would be closer to the truth.
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Stoneage
Gorbachyov tried to reform The Soviet Union which, of course, was impossible. That was the beginning of the downfall.
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Rockman
....pleeeeeeze can we get back to pirouetting....
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GravityBoy
The majority never voted for her.
Ever.
I was there.
Propsperity?
For the minority, yes.
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Rockman
....pleeeeeeze can we get back to pirouetting....
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tomcasagranda
Here's what I said on CIF Guardian blog re: Mick. I quite like Mick, but he does have alarming Vicar of Bray tendencies, i.e. going with whosoever is in favour:
"There's a fascinating book, based on Lytton Strachey, entitled Eminent Elizabethans, by Piers Brendon. Brendon effectively interlinks Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, Lady Thatcher, and Mick Jagger. These four challenged the establishment, yet, secretly, and eventually, they all became part of the establishment. Thatcher challenged the Tory grandees, who didn't, at first, want a woman leader, Murdoch changed the hegemony of the press, Charles, initially rebelled against his family with speeches condemning architecture, but has since become establishment, and Jagger, too, was a rebellious figure, with his blues-based music, but is now part, too, of the establishment.
Jagger has, like the Vicar of Bray, moved with whatever is trendy, creating an utterly ambivalent image: politically, he was approached by Tom Driberg, circa Satanic Majesties / Beggars Banquet era, to stand for Labour. I think Driberg also had a crush on Jagger, so there may have been an ulterior motive in that respect. Jagger also had admiration for Thatcher, referring to her as "Iron Knickers", but he also had admiration for Tony Blair, and his knighthood was conferred on him by New Labour.
Certainly, Mick Jagger's Vicar of Bray tendencies are also reflected in his music, sometimes to the chagrin of Keith Richards, as per his Life autobiography: the disco music of Emotional Rescue single, and Undercover, certainly spring to mind. It has also led to him having to accede a writers' credit to Ben Mink and k.d.lang for Anybody's Seen My Baby".