Mick Jagger apologizes for Some Girls racist lyrics

Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls" on October 6, 1978.

Some Girls is the 14th British and 16th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978 on Rolling Stones Records, catalogue COC 39108. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, and became the band's biggest-selling album in the United States, and has been certified by the RIAA as having six million copies sold as of 2000.

Mick Jagger is generally regarded as the principal creative force behind Some Girls, a conception that, though disputable (Richards was present at all of the sessions), is plausible considering Richards' various legal entanglements at the time (see below).

Jagger claimed in a 1995 interview to have written a great number of the album's songs (though when the amount was pointed out to him he denied that the record was mostly his own), including its signature song, "Miss You". In addition to punk, Jagger claims to have been influenced by dance music, most notably disco, during the recording of Some Girls, and cites New York City as a major inspiration for the album, an explanation for his lyrical preoccupation with the city throughout.

There was some controversy surrounded the lyrics that Mick Jagger wrote to the title song, an extended musing on women of various nationalities and races.

The line "Black girls just wanna get fucked all night" drew strong protests from various groups, including Jesse Jackson's PUSH. Jagger famously replied, "I've always said, you can't take a joke, it's too fucking bad," although he was reportedly more conciliatory to Jackson in private, as he claimed the song was intended as a parody of racist attitudes. Saturday Night Live cast member Garrett Morris would have the final say on the controversy with a mock-editorial on the show's Weekend Update segment: After giving the impression that he was going to openly criticize the Stones, he quoted a sanitized version of the "Black girls just..." line, then stated "I have one thing to say to you, Mr. Mick Jagger... where are these women?!?"


Retro History for October 6 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1988 Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1985 Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
1985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1983 Buffalo Bill quarterback Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
1983 New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1982 Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1982 Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, 17-22 die
1980 Guyana adopts constitution
1980 John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1'9"
1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
1978 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic)
1978 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
1978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 home runs, Yankees win championship game 3, 6-5
1977 DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in New York City
1977 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game
1976 "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1976 Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
1976 John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1974 "Mack and Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 66 performances
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1966 Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1965 William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in New York City
1964 "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
1963 Los Angeles Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series
1962 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1961 John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1958 U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
1957 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
1956 Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1956 Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1956 South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
1955 LSD made illegal in U.S.
1953 WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb

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Mick Jagger accidentally shot

Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" on August 18, 1969.

Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor and producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.

Mick Jagger has also had an intermittent acting career, most notably in Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's Performance (1968) and as Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970)

. Mick Jagger composed an improvised soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's film Invocation Of My Demon Brother on the Moog synthesiser in 1969. He auditioned for the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter in the 1975 film adaptation of The Rocky Horror Show, a now iconic role that was eventually played by the original performer from its run on London's West End, Tim Curry. Mick Jagger appeared as himself in The Rutles film All You Need Is Cash in 1978. In the late 1970s, Mick Jagger was cast as Wilbur, a main character in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. However, a delay and the illness of main actor Jason Robards (later replaced by Klaus Kinski) in the film's notoriously difficult production resulted in his being unable to continue due to schedule conflicts with a band tour; some of the footage of his work is shown in the documentary Burden of Dreams.

Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger and directed by Tony Richardson was made in 1970. It was not a success and during its making it led to a protest by Australian Actors Equity over the importation of Mick Jagger, with complaints from Kelly family descendants and others over the film being shot in New South Wales, rather than in the Victoria locations where most of the events actually took place.

Retro History for August 18 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as New York Yankee manager
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
1987 Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on WYSP 94.1 FM
1986 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1985 Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1983 Royals defeat Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1982 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1981 "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 119 performances
1981 Jerry Lee Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1980 Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters
1977 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1977 Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1976 U.S.S.R.'s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1974 Joanne Carner wins LPGA St. Paul Keller Golf Open
1973 Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1972 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1967 Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1967 Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1967 WCBS radio in New York City goes all-news
1965 Hank Aaron loses a home run, because he hit it out of batter's box
1965 Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
1964 Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd U.S. visit
1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1964 U.S.S.R. launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed
1960 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois
1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1960 Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League
1958 "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
1958 Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
1958 Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ")
1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game
1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1955 Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1955 Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
1954 James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting
1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth

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Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias

Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias on March 12, 1971.




Retro History for March 12 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
1987 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs. Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in New York City
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1970 U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs. Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in New York City
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1957 East Germany accepts 22 Russian divisions
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1954 1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1951 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"


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