Tributes poured in from around the world, with some of music’s biggest names lamenting the loss of a singular and instantly recognisable performer
The fashion designer and partner of musician Mick Jagger has left her $8m apartment and $1m in valuables to him, according to the New York Post.
Mick Jagger has reportedly left Perth, where the band is set to play, after the death of his girlfriend, fashion designer L’Wren Scott in the US.
Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Mick Jagger, has been found dead at her apartment in New York.
‘I’m broke,’ says Marsha Hunt, inspiration for the song Brown Sugar, explaining her reason for selling Jagger’s letters to her from the summer of ’69.
Mick Jagger may rethink the words he sang over 45 years ago – "what a drag it is getting old" as the Rolling Stones enjoy 50 years in the industry.
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Pop culture icons John Lennon and Mick Jagger were clever capitalists who cashed in on the mood of the 1960s, says a British academic.
Guitarist and songwriter Bo Diddley, who died of heart failure on June 2 at age 79, was an innovative R&B pioneer who forged rock’n’roll’s signature beat but rarely got the credit — or the riches — heaped on his fellow musical icons. He died at his home in Archer, Florida, where he had been convalescing since last year after suffering a stroke and later a heart attack.
In the end, it was the pictures of Carla Bruni photogenically snogging President Sarkozy on a boat on the River Thames, during their state visit, that made me wish they’d both just clear off back to France, Bruni presumably bobbing gently homewards on a sea of male British drool.
First it was Disneyland, then love on the Nile, now it’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s starry settings for his showbiz romance with the ex-model Carla Bruni continued this weekend when the couple rode camels in Jordan and visited Petra.