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Originality isn\u2019t something that anyone can fake their way into doing in the music industry. Anyone can find ways of pulling from strange influences for their music, but it\u2019s almost an artist\u2019s duty to find things that no one has heard and turn them into something beautiful for the world to see. <\/p>\n

Although Mick Jagger<\/a> was more than happy to play the role of the blues surrogate for English kids in the 1960s, he knew when he was looking at people who were masters of their craft as well.<\/p>\n

For all of Jagger\u2019s swagger and confidence, he always recognised artists who pushed beyond convention. The Rolling Stones may have begun as devoted students of American blues, but Jagger understood that true longevity in rock music depended on evolution rather than imitation.<\/p>\n

Then again, Jagger was always in a class by himself when working on music with The Rolling Stones. There were moments where a certain lyric might hit someone as a copy of a Muddy Waters of Robert Johnson tune, but no one was going to sing it with as much gravitas as Jagger, especially when he started to stretch his singing a bit more during the early 1970s on tunes like \u2018Sway\u2019 or harmonising with Keith Richards on \u2018Happy.\u2019<\/p>\n

And no matter how many kids picked up guitars because of The Beatles, anyone wanting to entertain a crowd was going to follow in Jagger\u2019s footsteps. Despite his reputation for being one of the more lowkey members of the Stones, he would come to life every time he took the stage, never resting for a second and giving the fans the kind of performance that was normally reserved for Tina Turner.<\/p>\n

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Between the blues covers in their usual setlist, Jagger was doing the beginnings of subversion rock and roll, and a young kid named Davey Jones was definitely listening. Before being known as David Bowie, the future \u2018Starman\u2019 was transfixed watching Jagger in the flesh, even remembering the days when they were playing in small clubs and the frontman taking every heckle in stride by playing the role of the punk-ass frontman.<\/p>\n

If Jagger was the embodiment of rock and roll, Bowie had to be the rock star from another planet entirely. While his vaudeville debut was an exercise in musical theatre half the time, it did manage to pave the way for him to use different characters in his work, practically turning Jagger\u2019s androgynous persona inside out when he started working on \u2018Ziggy Stardust\u2019 or \u2018Aladdin Sane\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Where Jagger flirted with gender ambiguity and theatricality, Bowie transformed it into an entire artistic philosophy. He blurred the line between performer and character so completely that audiences were never entirely sure where David Jones ended and Ziggy Stardust began.<\/p>\n

Although Jagger and Bowie would become colleagues later on in life, The Stones frontman admitted that he had never seen someone of Bowie\u2019s calibre, saying<\/a>, \u201cDavid was always an inspiration to me and a true original. He was wonderfully shameless in his work. We had so many good times together. He was my friend, I will never forget him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowie would ultimately return the favour by namechecking the frontman in \u2018Drive-In Saturday<\/a>,\u2019 but the most important part of their relationship is \u2018The Thin White Duke\u2019 inspiring Jagger to get out of his shell. It\u2019s important for anyone to embrace new textures, but the fact that Jagger was willing to ham it up for the camera with Bowie in the video for \u2018Dancing in the Street\u2019 only comes from someone who has learned to live without fear. <\/p>\n

Despite not every one of their collaborations working out, Bowie and Jagger\u2019s relationship was the best example of artists learning from each other. Bowie had learned his rock and roll chops before he even knew Jagger personally, but when The Stones started putting the blues on the backburner, the student had become the teacher when Jagger copped a few of his friend\u2019s tricks.<\/p>\n

Their relationship ultimately showed how influence in music is rarely one-directional. Bowie may have first learned from watching Jagger command a room, but later on, The Stones frontman seemed equally energised by Bowie\u2019s fearlessness and appetite for reinvention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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