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I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

Mick Jagger

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Mick Jagger
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 26
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