Time is still on Mick’s side as Stones vocalist turns 60

THE term “Sixties rock star” took on a new meaning yesterday as Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger prepared to perform before a crowd of more than 60,000 in the Czech capital Prague, a day after celebrating his 60th birthday in a downtown nightclub.

On the latest leg of the Forty Licks world tour, the veteran British group was to take the stage in a purpose-built open-air arena in Letna park, the scene in November 1989 of some of the biggest demonstrations that led to the fall of communism.

It was to be the Stones' fourth concert in Prague they first came in 1990 when they befriended dissident-turned-president Vaclav Havel but among the spectators this year were to be many of the hundreds of thousands of tourists who now transform the city every summer.

On Saturday night the man once known as rock'n'roll's Peter Pan entered his seventh decade at a well-known night-spot on historic Wenceslas Square, where staff said he and other band-members danced till four in the morning, consuming large quantities of mojito cocktails and champagne.

Among those attending were his daughters Elisabeth and Jade and his brother Chris, as well as members of the heavy metal group Def Leppard.

Havel arrived with his wife Dagmar and left a gift of a crystal vase made by a local craftsman.

Michael Philip Jagger Sir Mick since 2002 was born in wartime south London, the son of a physical education teacher and a Conservative party councillor.

The band is on tour to promote the Forty Licks album a retrospective of 40 years together.