Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger wrote a 75,000-word autobiography and then forgot about it. Writing in British magazine The Spectator, book publisher John Blake reveals that three years ago he was handed a manuscript written by Mick in the early ‘80s. After receiving the memoir, John wrote a letter to Mick asking if he could publish his recollections, but although the rock icon acknowledged it was his work he told him he had forgotten putting pen to paper. Explaining how Mick came to forget he had written his memoir, John explains he was given a $1.25 million advance for his book by late British publisher George Weidenfeld. “I thought that was the end of the story until three years ago, when a mutual friend handed me a pristine typescript Mick had written,” John explains.

Source: National Post February 16, 2017 14:38 UTC