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How Jagger has kept the Stones in business for six decades

How Jagger has kept the Stones in business for six decades
Economics school dropout Mick Jagger has inadvertently become a business legend as well as a musical one. (Image: Getty)
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By Neil ShahMick Jagger was supposed to be singing Start Me Up in stadiums across the US this year. The buzz in the music business was that a tour was booked. Instead, the Rolling Stones in April made an inside joke via social media: a 1972 photograph of a debauched Keith Richards next to a sign that reads: “Patience Please … A Drug Free America Comes First!”The message? Stones fans can’t always get what they want.“I wanted to have the summer off,” Jagger says with a laugh during a video call from Italy on a...

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