Mick Jagger

Covering the breadth of Mick Jagger's solo career, this best-of is highlighted by "Too Many Cooks," a cut from 1973 produced for Mick by John Lennon, with Al Kooper, Jack Bruce and Harry Nilsson all providing support. Also included is the once difficult to locate "Memo from Turner," a great lost Stones song that appeared in Performance, a movie featuring Jagger getting upstaged by Anita Pallenberg's hotness. Later cuts "Don't Tear Me Up," Jagger's biggest hit, from 1992, and "Charmed Life," also recorded in '92 but never released, fill out the album.

Mick Jagger is one of rock’s greatest singers and songwriters. That is common knowledge.
This should be: He has written and recorded superb work outside the double-guitar tangle
of the Rolling Stones, and this collection proves it, going back to the sneering evil of
1970’s “Memo From Turner” and climaxing with the sublime country soul of “Evening
Gown,” from 1993’s Wandering Spirit. Many of these songs are about having it... More >