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Mick Jagger

Disciplines:
acting
music
rock music/rock performance

Summary

Mick Jagger is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones and an iconic figure of rock performance, who also appeared as Turner, the reclusive rock star, in Nicolas Roeg's 'Performance' (1970).

Core Contribution

Jagger's Turner in 'Performance' — reading Borges on screen — established the reading of rock stardom as a specifically literary, self-conscious performance of identity, connecting pop culture to the postmodern philosophical tradition Nolan draws upon.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Borges on screen (being shown reading Borges in 'Performance' codes Turner's androgynous identity games as philosophically deliberate rather than merely decadent)
  • Rock charisma as power (Jagger's performance in the film uses his existing cultural power as a weapon — Turner controls Chas simply by being more interesting)

Notable Works & Achievements

Performance

Historical Influences

Chuck Berry Muddy Waters

Intellectual Lineage

British rock tradition Swinging London counterculture

Contemporaries & Peers

David Bowie Keith Richards James Fox

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Rolling Stones as cultural institution

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