Mick Jagger: When it comes to children, eight is enough
Ladies & Gentlemen....presented by Cialis...THE ROLLING STONES!!!
Yep, because these guys need to be ready when the time is right....on and off the stage.
It's been a strange year in the world of music. The musicians are either dead or having children. Bowie, Prince, Frey DEAD! Jagger, Wood BABIES! C'mon guys, there has to be something in between those extremes.
By now you've heard the news that 72 year old Mick Jagger and his 29 year old ballerina girlfriend are having a baby. For Mick, it'll be child number eight. Mick must have heard about an Eight Is Enough remake and he wants to play the Dick Van Patten part. I don't think he realized it was those eight children that killed Dick.
EIGHT!!! That's a lot of kids. Maybe not in comparison to B.B. King who had fifteen but still. Mick also has five grandchildren and even has a great-granddaughter who will be two years older than her whatever type of relation you would call the new baby. If I can't figure it out, try to imagine what Mick is thinking.
And yet Mick is a slacker compared to his band mate Ronnie Wood. The Woods just welcomed twins daughters, Gracie and Alice, two months ago. That makes six for Ronnie to go with some grands.
So these guys have become the Tony Randall of their generation. You remember Tony from the Odd Couple, right? Felix Unger. Tony was married to wife number one for about fifty years...no kids. She dies, he remarries a woman in her twenties...wham bam thank you maam, TWO kids and then Tony checks out at age eighty-four.
When Keith Richards heard the news about the new Jagger pregnancy, word is he snickered, shook his head and laughed. What kind of world is this when Keith Richards is the voice of reason?
I can only imagine what Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts thinks. Charlie has been married to the same woman for fifty-two years and they have one daughter who is forty-eight. In the rock and roll world, that's unheard of. Hell, in the real world it's pretty rare.
Now I don't mean to judge....oh who am I kidding...I do mean to judge.
I'm a little younger than these guys and I can't imagine starting over with new kids. I need a nap most afternoons and I really don't do anything at all during the day. Two month old twins would kill me. Maybe Mick and Ronnie are popping amphetamines to go along with the ED drugs? Naaaa....rockers wouldn't do anything like that, would they?
Rock musicians having late in life children is nothing new. Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel and even Sir Paul have had children past the age of 60. I guess they became role models for Mick and Ronnie. And you know what...maybe these guys can be my later in life role models.
Just the other day I was talking about how I'm very attracted to a woman who is thirty years younger than me. That's not the inappropriate part. However since she's my doctor and just performed a double hernia surgery on me last month...well that might be a little inappropriate. One good thing about an older guy dating a doctor, she can bring the Viagra to the date.
Plus dating a woman that young means you don't have to worry about your own children giving you grandchildren. You can make your own!
So here's to Mick Jagger. Mazel Tov on the new offspring to be. Here's to many more. It does look like Time is on your side!
Thanks to my friend Leah, better known as MBA Mom for that last line. Here's her blog about old Dads who are Rocking the cradle.
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