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Mick Jagger's brother Chris plays at Queenscliff Festival
SIR Mick is the Rolling Stone but brother Chris Jagger gets to headline one of Victoria's favourite music festivals
Chris Jagger, younger brother of the famous Mick, is coming to Melbourne with his blues/rock band Chris Jagger's Atcha.
The "I'll always be younger" Chris headlines this year's Queenscliff Music Festival, which was launched yesterday.
Whereas big brother sings of Dead Flowers, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash, songwriting guitarist Chris sings of Rare Beauty, I Belong to You and Roll Back the Time.
It's midnight in Chris Jagger's home in Somerset, where he lives with his wife of 30 years, when we reach him by phone.
What's the best thing about being Mick's brother?
He'd be a really miserable bastard if he was the only child. Imagine how insufferable he'd be.
Does being Mick's brother open doors for you or slam them in your face?
They are all automatic these days. Long before this celebrity age, in the 1960s, it was a good little entree. I met a lot of people I'd never have met. I live out in the sticks now and I'm not really part of any social scene apart from the local one.
Do you have more freedom in being Chris rather than Mick?
One's comfortable with what normality is. I can't imagine not being anonymous. I get on the Tube like anybody else, sit there and look at other people, and they look at me and see some old geezer.
From an artistic point of view, it gives the chance to observe people a lot better. If you're a famous person, you'd never get on a train or a bus anyway, you're cocooned in a protective shell. I don't regard somebody who's famous as any more important than anybody else. Everybody's important.
How is your family life different from that of Mick, who has seven children with four women?
Has he? Amazing. I have two sons with my wife and she had two sons when I met her. I also have a son from a previous relationship. We have 10 grandchildren.
What was it like growing up with Mick?
We were both quite extroverted. We didn't learn any music, we didn't even have an instrument in the house. It was quite a major thing when we got a little record player. My mother was made to take piano lessons and she hated it so she made sure that we weren't made to take any. We used to like singing.
I wanted to be a comedian, or a singer, or a runner -- I was mad about sport because my father was in sports education. Mick and I played games and did stuff together. But he's 4 1/2 years older, which, when you're a kid, is a lot. So he was always the big brother off with his friends, and I was the little kid brother who was in his own world.
Did he get all the girls at school?
We went to a boys' school. There always seemed to be a few girls about. That's what happens when you have a male household, you need to balance it out a bit. My mother had four brothers. She really wanted a girl. I was supposed to be a girl. Then I wouldn't have all this brother comparison thing.
Did he ever invite you to join the Rolling Stones?
No. He was 19, I was a little spotty adolescent at school.
Did you ever want to be a Rolling Stone?
You mean a person who leaves home and never comes back? No, they were all so much older. Some brothers play together successfully, quite a lot of them fall out very badly. You have to be quite complementary. Had I been a drummer or something . . .
How would you describe your relationship with Mick now?
It's pretty normal. The older you get the more you value what family ties you have. (Dad Basil died at 93 in 2006; Australian-born mum Eva in 2000). You have to make a conscious effort. But when someone needs help, Mick will be there to help if he can. He has a busy life, he's quite often in other parts of the world, but if you need him for some help or advice, you can get hold of him. The next time I'm seeing him is when England play Australia in a one-day at Lord's on September 6.
In the special tribute to the Rolling Stones at the Queenscliff Festival, which song will you perform?
I only know a couple of Rolling Stones songs. I usually get the words wrong. I did that Dead Flowers in a pub in London . . . and Mick joined me for a duet. That became a huge story on YouTube. It's a crazy world. But don't write too much on that old bugger, will you? He gets enough press as it is.
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