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Anyone even remotely interested in being a rock and roll frontman should practically study every move Mick Jagger<\/a> has ever made. <\/p>\n The Rolling Stones may have been more than the sum of their parts every time they started playing, but when it came to the live show, there was no one on the planet more animated than Jagger whenever he started breaking out the rooster dance moves and running around every piece of the stage. He will forever be the benchmark of what showmanship was supposed to be, but no one gets to be that famous without running into a few pitfalls along the way.<\/p>\n Then again, Keith Richards was usually the one helping to keep Jagger in check half the time. It\u2019s no secret that they weren\u2019t always getting along whenever they were making their records, but they learned the number-one rule of being in a band better than anyone else: your band members are more important than you think. Jagger might have tried for a solo career many times, but it was always going to work out better when he had Keef\u2019s riffs chugging away behind him.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not to say that the band couldn\u2019t have a few special guests on their records every now and again. Anyone in their right mind would have loved to have John Lennon and Paul McCartney singing on one of their singles, and when they reached their classic period in the 1970s, you could hear them taking influences from outside of conventional rock and roll, whether that was bringing in Merry Clayton to deliver one of the best vocals in rock history on \u2018Gimme Shelter<\/a>\u2019 or Gram Parsons introducing Richards to country music during Exile on Main St.<\/p>\n All that was well and good, but Jagger did have a fixation on what was popular at any given time. He wasn\u2019t quite the trendchaser that you\u2019d see in the modern age, but if there was any new fad in rock and roll, it didn\u2019t take long for him to become obsessed with it. It wasn\u2019t always to see him try out being a disco singer on \u2018Miss You\u2019, but you have to remember that things could always get worse. And in the 1980s, we found out exactly how worse it could get when David Bowie came into the picture.<\/p>\n While it sounds insane to think that any song would be tainted by \u2018The Starman\u2019s presence, you have to remember where he was in the 1980s. Let\u2019s Dance had been one of his biggest smashes, and since he was now entering his \u201cPhil Collins years\u201d, Jagger was more than willing to have a little bit of fun when they started working on a cover of the Motown classic \u2018Dancing in the Street\u2019.<\/p>\n