Mick Jagger narrates film to mark Royal Albert Hall anniversary
Venue kicks off 150th birthday celebrations with footage dating back to 1933, some of it unseen

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/23/mick-jagger-narrates-film-to-mark-royal-albert-hall-anniversary

Sir Mick Jagger kicks off Royal Albert Hall’s 150th anniversary celebrations
Alex Green, PA Entertainment Reporter
Mon, 22 February 2021, 6:01 pm·3-min read

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/sir-mick-jagger-kicks-off-000100881.html

Seems likely they'll be playing there 2022, maybe for broadcast...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BM9N3_KbVA

Jagger reads a passage from WH Auden:

Distance and duties divide us,
But absence will not seem an evil
If it make our re-meeting
A real occasion. Come when you can:
Your room will be ready.

His faux posh accent sounds like his dodgy acting. I just wish he would use his normal voice, it's much more powerful and distinct when he speaks normally. The guy has the most distinct voice out there with all kinds of kinds of interesting tones and inflections, he doesn't need to put on this affected  and trite sophistication.

The Wick wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2021 at 12:28pm:

His faux posh accent sounds like his dodgy acting

LOL I was about to change it to "Hey Mick... Your faux posh accent sounds like your dodgy acting" and post it (probably crediting you LOL) in his account but declined



;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Mick didn't get to choose the Auden quote. He was simply asked to read it.

So he played the naughty schoolboy and used a silly accent to gently
send-up the pretentiousness of how they're handling this anniversary

If you were still in grade school, you would have gotten the joke immediately

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2021 at 1:21pm:

The Wick wrote on Feb 23rd, 2021 at 12:28pm: His faux posh accent sounds like his dodgy acting LOL I was about to change it to "Hey Mick... Your faux posh accent sounds like your dodgy acting" and post it (probably crediting you LOL) in his account but declined ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

LOL. If you had, I would be approached at the next gig by a couple burly toughs and asked to leave.

Marianne Faithful:

I remember going to a dinner with Wystan H. Auden.
In the middle of the evening Auden turned to me and, in a gesture
I assume was intended to shock me, said, "Tell me, when you travel
with drugs, Marianne, do you pack them up your arse?" "Oh, no,
Wystan," I said. "I stash them in my pussy."

This was the same dinner where the politician Tom Driberg tried to
convince Jagger to stand as a Labour candidate, punctuating his
offer by fondling Mick under the table.

Quite a few sources say that Bob Dylan ripped off Auden's poetry
repeatedly, including rhythms and verse structure...

And more than one source claims that Paint It Black was inspired by
Auden's Funeral Blues, especially the last verse...


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cc/3c/81/cc3c814bbf7430dd989d215c30770cb8.jpg

So we know Jagger knew Auden...

And so now we know another reason why Mick read the poem that way...

Because thats more or less the way the poet himself would have read it...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hXftMHTSdA


(i think this highlights one big difference between me and most Stones fans.
When Mick does something off-putting, rather than immediately pulling out
my jealousy gun and shooting at him, my first instinct is "hmmm, i wonder what
Mick had in mind". Amazing how much i've learned that way)

They should play that place on the next tour!

mojoman wrote on Feb 24^th, 2021 at 7:58pm:

They should play that place on the next tour!

Yes... last time they played there was in 1965, only six shows there 1 in 1963, 3 in 1964 and 2 in 1965