In 2015, Swift invited Jagger on stage for a rendition of The Rolling Stones’ first number one hit, ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’.
Surely famous people all have similar contacts, especially if they’re as big as Swift and Jagger are, but Swift originally heard that Jagger was in town second-hand, as FaroutMag reports.
“My dad called me up and said a friend of his was in Nashville and saw Mick Jagger,” Swift said during an interview for her Australian leg of the tour. “I didn’t know he was in town and I had a show the next day.” Swift had previously joined The Rolling Stones onstage for a version of ‘As Tears Go By’ during their ’50 and Counting…’ tour in 2013, after which Swift must have snagged Jagger’s phone number.
“So I texted Mick and said ‘Hey are you in Nashville, do you want to come out and do the show?'” Swift explains. Jagger had just one concern: “He texted back just saying ‘Oh what will I wear?’ My band and I are just trying not to pass out. He shows up for showtime and absolutely shuts down Nashville. I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
“I’m always shocked by Mick and his love for what he does,” Swift added. “He was on vacation and he didn’t have to do my show and he did, completely last minute”. The duo’s rendition of ‘Satisfaction’ was just one of many guest appearances made by famous artists across the 1989 tour. The Weeknd, Lorde, Selena Gomez, Steven Tyler, Joan Baez, St. Vincent, Beck,
Whiz Khalifa, Avril Lavigne, John Legend, Alanis Morissette, Ed Sheeran, and Ricky Martin all made appearances during the tour, but according to Swift, Jagger’s participation opened the door fora host of other people.
“Once Mick Jagger comes out and does a guest appearance, everybody else was like, ‘Oh, Mick Jagger did it? Well then I’ll do it,'” Swift claimed.
Joe Satriani has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in rock, including Mick Jagger who recruited the guitarist for his solo tour in 1988. (UCR)
“He loved doing that,” Joe Satriani explains. “It seemed like once a month we would find a bar somewhere and we would make a deal with the local band that we would just walk in and take over their gear. And if we needed to bring an extra guitar, we would. But pretty much we plugged in to whatever they had.”
For Satriani, watching the Rolling Stones frontman perform in such an intimate setting was a joy.
“It was always great, just to see Mick turn it on when he’s literally 12 inches away from the audience and they can touch him and everything,” the guitarist admits. “And he loved playing blues songs and rock and roll favorites and stuff. We all got a kick out of it.”
