The Marquee Club is actually the night to remember where the Stones got their name. ALL thanks to who? Brian, that is. As for Alexis Korner pushing the start of the gig in 1962, it's a job well done!
Photo by Philip Townsend, 1963.
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The Marquee Club is actually the night to remember where the Stones got their name. ALL thanks to who? Brian, that is. As for Alexis Korner pushing the start of the gig in 1962, it's a job well done!
Photo by Philip Townsend, 1963.
Alexis Korner *April 19, 1928
Keith comments on Alexis Korner’s relationship to the Stones during his posthumous induction into The Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame (2025)
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When Monroe died in August 1962 — just three months after Mick began singing professionally— he was shattered. “Monroe was a seductress,” Korner said, “and that’s the way Mick saw himself. He’s helped to alter the whole idea of what it is to be male.”
Christopher P. Andersen, Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger.
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Alexis Korner: I always felt that Mick had the ultimate strength and that little streak of cruelty and ruthlessness. It may very easily have been Mick's defence mechanism operating, making himself seem more cruel than he was and thus less likely to suffer attack. But the feeling of cruelty and ruthlessness was definitely there. And also his sullenness, which is what I thought his meanness was at the time. But he wasn't so much sullen as shy. He was just shy and didn't talk very much. Yet it came across as sullen. And that was a part of the attraction of Mick.
Mick Jagger biography by Anthony Scaduto (1974)