Mick Jagger wrote a 'masterpiece' memoir that has never been published

Rolling Stones manager has denied publisher John Blake permission to put out manuscript that includes tales of the singer buying a mansion while high on acid

Mick Jagger wrote a 75,000-word memoir in the early 80s, which remains unpublished, according to the publisher John Blake. Writing in the Spectator, Blake says that three years ago he was handed “a pristine typescript Mick had written”, after he had become tired of the number of books written about Jagger and the Rolling Stones.

Blake says the book features stories of Jagger buying his Hampshire mansion, Stargroves, while tripping on acid and having to punch a horse between the eyes to slow it down when he decided to try “the life of a horse-riding country squire”. The book, Blake says, “is a little masterpiece”.

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