Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review

Fiona MacCarthy on the making of a countercultural heroTo those of us who were there, and can remember it all too vividly, the 60s was a time when almost anything seemed possible. The chrysalis miraculously turned into the butterfly and flittered into space.This longed-for transformation from drabness into glamour is the theme of Jerusalem the Golden, my favourite of Margaret Drabble's early novels, and it is a recurring motif in Philip Norman's new biography of Mick Jagger, in which he charts ...

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