As the source of all things evil, he repeatedly dared listeners to ‘guess my name’.
The villain at the heart of Rolling Stones track Sympathy for the Devil was of course Satan himself.
But, 13 years before the hit tune was released, its writer Mick Jagger left any guess work out of the equation – by signing his copy of the Bible.
The Rolling Stones frontman left the Christian holy book behind at his family home in Wilmington, Dartford, Kent, after his parents sold it in the 1960s.
It was found by the new owners, who were stunned when they saw Jagger’s name on the inside page.
In neat capital letters, he wrote: ‘Michael Jagger “Newlands” The Close, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent.’
Next to it the future star, who would then have been 12 or 13, added: ‘Dartford Grammar School 2B.’
Jagger’s brother Chris – younger by four years – also wrote his name on the same page.
Mick Jagger’s childhood Bible he had 13 years before he wrote Sympathy for the Devil has been unearthed. It was signed by both the Rolling Stones star and his younger brother Chris when they were at school
Mick Jagger in 1964, when the Rolling Stones were becoming hugely popular
It is thought Mick, who was in his second year of secondary school – now known as Year 8 – when he signed his name, later gave the Bible to his sibling.
The Bible has been kept ever since by the people who bought the Jaggers’ old house.
They have now consigned it for sale at Ewbank’s Auctioneers of Woking, Surrey. It is expected to sell for between £4,000 and £6,000.
Jagger was born and raised in Dartford.
He attended Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, where he met future Stones bandmate Keith Richards.
The pair lost contact when Jagger went to Dartford Grammar School.
He graduated from there in 1961 with seven O-levels and two A-levels.
In the same year, he bumped into Richards at Dartford railway station.
The Rolling Stones frontman left the holy book behind at his family home in Wilmington, Dartford, Kent, after his parents sold it in the 1960s
In neat capital letters, he wrote: ‘Michael Jagger “Newlands” The Close, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent’. Jagger’s brother Chris – younger by four years – also wrote his name on the same page
The pair realised their shared interest in rhythm and blues music and went on to form the Stones in 1962.
Auctioneer Andrew Ewbank said: ‘The Bible was left behind in the old Jagger family and was found by the new owners a long time ago.
‘They have held on to it and just kept it in a drawer.
‘Everything that Mick wrote checks out although it is hard to compare the handwriting because you are talking about a child doing it.
‘We expect it to sell to a collector of Rolling Stones memorabilia.’
The auction takes place on May 22.
Jagger’s childhood home in Dartford sold in February 2024 for more than £500,000.
The 1930s terraced house had been completely gutted inside, painted almost entirely grey and stripped of most of its features.
Sympathy for the Devil, which was written by Jagger and released in 1968, was the opening track in the Stones’ album Beggars Banquet.
It proved to be yet another hit for the English band.
And it was not their first Devil-themed production. Their sixth album is titled Their Satanic Majesties Request.