For the past 40 years, he has maintained fastidiously a trim 28 inch waist.
And while Sir Mick Jagger has always credited his energetic on stage performances for helping him stay slim, he has another rather more acrobatic way of shedding the pounds - antigravity aerial yoga.
The rockstar has taken up the demanding practice which sees devotees strung up in a hammock suspended six feet in the air, using their own bodyweight to perform demanding gymnastic exercises.
Yet in recent years, he has appeared reflective about the life he has led, stating: “I suppose you do think about the time that’s allotted to you more than when you were younger. You realise – much earlier than my age now – that you won’t be able to play for England’s football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can’t have that life again.
“The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull. It’s an imminent truth but it’s not necessarily a bad thing.”
Mind you, having sold 240 million records and amassed a fortune of £393million, the former Dartford Grammar School pupil, born Michael Philip Jagger on July 26, 1943, must think his choices turned out well.
“I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people,” he also once said. “Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up?”
Mick’s dedication to exercise has undoubtedly helped him defy the years. The son of a PE teacher, he is a fitness fiend who takes a portable jogging track on tour and can often be spotted doing push-ups and interval training backstage.
But despite his good health, Mick did have heart surgery in April 2019, resulting in the postponement of the Stones tour.
Jagger's diet consisting primarily of fresh fruit and veg, whole grains, legumes, chicken and fish, as well as regular interval training which allows him to sing a song, run across stage and then talk to the crowd after the song has finished.
“I don’t mind digging up old clothes and wearing them,” he said recently, “but digging up old stories is a bore.” He makes a valid point. “Old clothes” tell the story of a performer like him more succinctly than words ever could, unless, of course, they’re the words he’s penned for the songs that everyone everywhere knows by heart. Because those songs are actually the chapters in his real autobiography, the one he doesn’t need to consign to paper. And the “old clothes” have helped give them shape and colour.
