{"id":561172,"date":"2026-07-27T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:26:17","slug":"83-years-ago-today-the-greatest-rock-lead-singer-of-all-time-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561172\/","title":{"rendered":"83 Years Ago Today: \u2018The Greatest Rock Lead Singer of All Time\u2019 Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

A music icon ranked as the top ‘Rock Lead Singer’ celebrates his 83rd birthday today.<\/p>\n

July 26 marks several significant dates in music history. Among them, today is the 58th anniversary of The Jackson 5 signing with Motown Records. On July 26, 1969, the legendary Johnny Cash released one of his signature hit songs, “A Boy Named Sue.”<\/p>\n

It was also on this day, 83 years ago, that Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger was born.<\/p>\n

Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England, on July 26, 1943. He attended Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, where he first met future Rolling Stones bandmate and guitarist Keith Richards.<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stones were formed in 1962, playing their first show at London’s Marquee Jazz Club <\/a>on July 12, 1962. On July 22, 1964, the group scored their first No. 1 hit when “It’s All Over Now” topped the UK Singles Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the next four years, they scored more No. 1 hits with “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965), “Get Off of My Cloud” (1965), “Paint It Black” (1966), “Ruby Tuesday” (1967)” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968).<\/p>\n

Fast forward more than sixty years, and The Rolling Stones are among the best-selling music groups ever, with an estimated 250 million albums sold globally.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Billboard<\/a> ranked Jagger No. 1 on their list of “The 50 Greatest Rock Lead Singers of All Time<\/a>.” Kurt Cobain of Nirvana (fifth), Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin (fourth), Freddie Mercury of Queen (third) and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac (second) rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n

Mick Jagger Wants to Tour Again\"Ronnie<\/p>\n

Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on stage during a 2024 performance.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with\u00a0BBC\u00a0Radio 2<\/a> (h\/t Rolling Stone<\/a>), Jagger indicated that he’s not ready to call it quits on his illustrious career.<\/p>\n

“I’d love to go on tour,” Jagger said. “I can’t wait.” I don’t think it’s going to be this year. But hopefully it’s going to be as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, The Rolling Stones released a new album, Foreign Tongues. Couple that with Jagger’s recent comments about touring, and it appears this young 83-year-old is far from done as a performer.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Jul 26, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A music icon ranked as the top ‘Rock Lead Singer’ celebrates his 83rd birthday today. July 26 marks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,173530,82239,40377,248488,254253,409,26030,15421,254254],"class_list":["post-561172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-johnny-cash","tag-keith-richards","tag-mick-jagger","tag-mick-jagger-and-keith-richards","tag-motown-records","tag-music","tag-rolling-stone","tag-rolling-stones","tag-wentworth-primary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}