In a new interview with Time, Mick Jagger opens up about his successful rock career and his musical influences. One of Jagger's biggest inspirations, he told the magazine, was James Brown.
Jagger met Brown at one of Brown's performances early in his career and is now a producer of the upcoming James Brown biopic Get on Up. He says the funk icon heavily influenced his work, particularly his dance moves:
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