Jumpin’ Jack Flash! Fun Facts About Mick Jagger’s Life

Some people might have moves like Jagger, but most don’t have his kind of money. Mick Jagger, the hip-shaking Rolling Stones vocalist has enough money to get anyone off of his cloud by buying the sky.

Worth an estimated $500 million, Jagger isn’t just a brilliant musician, he’s a seasoned businessman who just won’t stop working.

Let’s take a look at some of the more financially fascinating facts about the octogenarian rock star who just won’t quit.  

Michael Phillip Jagger was born on July 26, 1943. His early years were spent at a small house in Dartford, a town outside of London — at 39 Denver Road to be exact.

His mother was a housekeeper and his father was a gym teacher. The home is a modest three-bedroom, one bathroom townhome. But being Jagger’s childhood home didn’t seem to do much for the property value — the home last sold for £129,000 ($182,000) in 2013.

It was in Dartford that Jagger met the immortal Keith Richards, and the two became childhood friends.

Despite Jagger’s infamous bad-boy lifestyle, he was a pretty model student growing up. According to his grammar school’s history teacher, Jagger was “a sober, thoughtful student” and a very good one at that, according to a 1997 History Channel biography.

He attended the London School of Economics to be an accountant, but, after one year, he left that beast of burden behind to pursue music.

While those in the financial industry would call this a stupid move for almost anyone, it turned out to be the right one for Jagger.

When the Rolling Stones were first starting out around 1962, they were a cover band that sang American blues songs. With their talent and Jagger’s provocative performances, they started gaining popularity and making some money playing gigs.

But their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, realized the real way to make money was to produce their own hits — at the time, the Beatles were making stacks of cash with original songs. So he told Jagger and Richards to come up with something.

According to Richards, they came up with “As Tears Go By” and was sold to Marianne Faithfull in 1964. It was a hit. And just like that, they were off to write their own hits, which would redefine rock and roll.

You think your taxes are bad? Back in the ’60s and ’70s, high earners in the United Kingdom had to pay an exorbitant amount of money in taxes — specifically, 93 percent.

So. if you made $100 million, you’d take home $7 million. So the Stones turned to France, said, ‘Gimme some tax shelter,’ and moved there for a bit.

It’s where they produced one of the Stones’ best albums, the aptly-titled “Exile on Main St.”