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When charting the evolution of the modern rock frontman, it\u2019s hard to deny Mick Jagger<\/a>\u2019s foundational legacy.<\/p>\n Before Iggy Pop\u2019s self-mutilation and Jim Morrison\u2019s dark magnetism, The Rolling Stones had landed in the American pop charts just behind The Beatles\u2019 ushering of the great British invasion, storming Billboard after a decade of rock and roll domination. Endearing themselves to US teens by lifting the country\u2019s blues and R&B and adding a little English grit to their early Chuck Berry and Howlin\u2019 Wolf covers, the Stones\u2019 raucous sound required a singer of effortless cool and rebel ooze to mark a more dangerous counter to the clean-cut Fab Four.<\/p>\n Luckily, they had Mick Jagger as their frontman. Hailing from the unremarkable Dartford suburbs of a lower-middle-class family, just where the sometime London School of Economics student\u2019s natural stage presence was captured is difficult to discern. Yet, before he\u2019d even hit his 20s, Jagger and the Stones were pulling the 1960s\u2019 pop infancy toward the counterculture more than anything from the Lennon-McCartney songbook, revelling in their uncouth and seductive image, keenly promoted by manager Andrew Loog Oldham.<\/p>\n