Mick Jagger Birthday: The Rolling Stones Frontman Turns 68 (PHOTOS)

Sir Mick Jagger, the legendary frontman for The Rolling Stones, turns 68 today, and despite what critics say, he's still doing what he does best--rocking out.

Much of the recent focus on The Stones has been on that more than 50-year-old public rift between Jagger and bandmate Keith Richards. But Jagger keeps rocking on--despite the critics who have been telling him for years that it's time to finally hang up the microphone. In true rockstar fashion, Jagger likes proving people--especially his critics--wrong.

Last year, Jagger recorded a new version of "Plundered My Soul" for the "Exile on Main St." re-release. Not to mention the album of his new supergroup, SuperHeavy, is coming out later this year.

Sir Mick was the poster-boy of seemingly endless energy when he was younger, but he's managed to maintain his work ethic and magnetic charisma throughout his more-than fifty-year career. Jagger's last tour with The Rolling Stones, 2005's "A Bigger Bang," was the second-highest grossing tour of all time, and the album was a critical success.

And over the years, Jagger's been a consent source of musical inspiration for popular and indie artists alike. Ke$ha sings about kicking her suitors "to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger," in her breakthrough hit, "Tik Tok." Meanwhile, Maroon 5's Adam Levine and pop-diva Christina Aguilera wish they had "Moves Like Jagger."

We're celebrating Mick's birthday with a look-back at some of his most memorable moments and career highlights. Take a look below.

Comments

[NoSillyName]

12:44 AM on 08/16/2011

Happy Birthday to MICK, the only guy who "Moves Like Jagger".

[WalterRetlaw]

03:28 AM on 07/29/2011

He was born in a cross-fire hurricane.

[Johnd139]

11:33 PM on 07/28/2011

He is what he is. The BEST at what he does.

[MLinkk]

11:19 PM on 07/28/2011

Mick is the epitome of a frontman!! Mick will live on forever!! Happy Birthday Mick!!

[srmmer]

09:32 PM on 07/28/2011

i love the stones mick is the best frontman that EVER lived

[Susan Shaffer]

05:50 PM on 07/28/2011

with all that money, you'd think he would have had a face lift.

[montsalas]

09:31 PM on 07/28/2011

Booo

[Johnd139]

11:34 PM on 07/28/2011

Double boo

[NoSillyName]

12:44 AM on 08/16/2011

No, he should NEVER do that.

[futbol4fun]

04:46 PM on 07/28/2011

Yeah, sure, whatever... You guys haven't written anything worth remembering in AT LEAST 30 years.

[Whitey Hackle]

04:12 PM on 07/28/2011

Since Freddy Mercury died, Mick Jagger and David Bowie have had to carry the torch of thinly veiled homoeroticism for sexually confused men stuck in the 70s.

Search 'Mick Jagger David Bowie' on YouTube if you don't believe me. In the words of Peter Griffin - "that happened and we all let it happen."

[Just My Thoughts 2011]

08:40 PM on 07/27/2011

Ahhh, what a shame that we all have to grow old.

[cmfrtblebbw]

07:42 PM on 07/27/2011

Creepy old dudes. Just saying. lol

[LightOn]

05:57 PM on 07/28/2011

...no one is immune...just saying.

[karen lyons kalmenson]

07:20 PM on 07/27/2011

Jumping jack still has mucho flash:-D

[pkafin]

01:58 PM on 07/27/2011

"Much of the recent focus on The Stones has been on that more than 50-year-old public rift between Jagger and bandmate Keith Richards."

Public riff, perhaps. But it's absurd to characterize one of the most productive song writing and performing duos of all time a 50 year old rift. Yes, like all partners they have bickered and there is tension between them that is apparent when scrutinized. But, with a few short lived exceptions, they have been the core of an enormously successful and long lived creative project.

[tcnsrq]

09:16 AM on 07/28/2011

few.....very few have been better

[american-dolt]

09:26 AM on 07/27/2011

Happy Birthday Mick, many happy returns you son of a gun.

Keep on Rockin!

[butchcliff]

07:18 AM on 07/27/2011

Happy birthday to the guy who has been singing the same songs since the sixties.

[american-dolt]

09:30 AM on 07/27/2011

Good Music is Timeless, maybe you'll realize that someday.

[Muzzlehatch]

10:10 AM on 07/27/2011

Hey, a little credit where credit's due, here. Smaller concert venues (and PBS specials designed to appeal to the older demographic) are littered with bands and artists doing exactly what you describe--making an easy buck playing their 40-year-old hits for longtime fans jonesing for a flashback to their youth. Mick and the Stones have continued creating new material right along, and while it breaks no new ground (as, say, Tom Waits's later work has done), it's decent, respectable stuff for the most part, and if it doesn't rise to the greatness of their early work, it's mainly because that early work was SO great, and SO iconic.

[sanfran55]

07:18 AM on 07/27/2011

Wow - can Mick really be 68? Hats off to him lasting this long in a business that shortened the lives of many. One of the greatest frontmen of all time.