By Sheri

MICK JAGGER: (66¾ WITHOUT PLASTIC SURGERY IS THE NEW 50)

Okay, it’s official – I love rock god Mick Jagger!(Sir Mick Jagger actually!) Musically, there’s no one like him! He and the Rolling Stones are amazing and I could listen to them forever. Those slow songs like “Wild Horses” and “Angie” as well as the more upbeat tunes such as “Happy”can set my world right again after any kind of weird day (like when I realize again that they really did  stop making new Seinfeld eps eons ago…).

Sir Mick was on Larry King last night talking about the 40 year anniversary of Exile on Main Street (great new album mixes plus a gritty docu filmed in French basements). It was hilarious when Larry turned the talk away from Exile to ask Mick if being on drugs ever affected his performance on stage. Mick waited one beat and deadpanned “probably” which almost sent Larry into one of his laughing spasms that makes you think he’s short of air and going to have a heart attack!

I loved hearing Mick Jagger, in his upper crust, yet also unpretentious, British accent, go into the story behind Exile (for what must be the 1,516th time in his career – long story short UK wanted 90% of his income so the Stones moved to France in Exile to pay like 40% less tax) I’m struck how cool he is still at 66¾ to be almost exact (turns 67 on July 26). He’s rock and roll elegance old school with a modern cool edge in his thinking.

Unlike Heidi Montag, who at almost a third of Mick Jagger’s age, has had a gazillion plastic surgeries, Jagger swears off them. As his model daughter (like her famous model mom, Jerry Hall), 20 something Elizabeth told the British papers in 2006, Mick Jagger has vowed never to have plastic surgery. Elizabeth calls her Dad’s face “craggy” in a good way, and I agree. I also agree with her when she says most people who get plastic surgery have “…glazed expressions like they’re in a permanent state of shock.” (Hello Steven Tyler…)