Mick Jagger rejected the comparisons between Harry Types and himself, saying the younger pop-rocker bears solely a “superficial resemblance to my youthful self.”
Types usually will get likened to Jagger for his energetic stage presence and androgynous outfits, and he often cites the Rolling Stones frontman as a significant affect, beforehand praising him as “the good man on the planet.” But whereas Jagger admitted he is keen on Types, he mentioned the similarities between himself and the One Directioner-turned-solo star are skin-deep at finest.
“I like Harry — we have now a simple relationship,” Jagger instructed the Sunday Occasions. “I imply, I used to put on much more eye make-up than him. Come on, I used to be rather more androgynous.”
He continued: “And he does not have a voice like mine or transfer on stage like me; he simply has a superficial resemblance to my youthful self, which is okay. He can not help that.”
Jagger additionally mirrored on lacking late Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died final August on the age of 80. “I do not actually anticipate him to be there anymore if I flip ‘spherical throughout a present,” he mentioned. “However I do take into consideration him. Not solely throughout rehearsals or on stage, however in different methods too. I might have phoned him up and talked about final evening’s Arsenal sport as a result of he supported Tottenham and I am Arsenal. I miss him as a participant and as a good friend.
“Within the present, after we come to the entrance and bow on the finish, there is not any Charlie,” Jagger continued. “He’d at all times be the final one down. I would go: ‘Come on, what have you ever acquired to do?’ He’d be fiddling together with his sticks as a result of he at all times needed to have them in a row earlier than he’d get off the seat.”
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