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You may be wondering to yourself: I thought Mick Jagger was famous for his moves? The truth is, no, not really. Unless you count doing what I\u2019ll call \u201cThe Stork Walk\u201d as a bitchin\u2019 new mosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though, to be fair, you might think that because of that song by that band \u201cWho Shall Not Be Named.\u201d You know the one, they hail from the lower layers of Hell. In fact, if I remember correctly, in Italian author Dante Alighieri’s seminal work \u201cThe Inferno,\u201d Satan, in the lowest pits of hell, is munching on Judas, Brutus and Adam Levine’s stupid shirtless body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fire and brimstone from hell preparing to engulf Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, along with his stupid butterfly tattoo. (Jamie Squire \/ Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So, with that out of the way, I\u2019d like to point out what Mick Jagger is really known for, at least in my own version of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, he was the lead singer of one of the more influential bands of the formative years of rock music. And yeah, they\u2019re definitely still around, making music (kinda), and singing songs about pill-popping mothers and the Devil in between club soda and Cialis cocktails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, at least for me, his greatest contribution to rock music was being one of the weirdest, duck-walkingest entities to ever oogle the camera in a circus tent. (Yeah, that happened.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s in that weirdness that I think he provided maybe his best contribution to the burgeoning genre he helped burst wide open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mick Jagger, photographed in 1965. (Olavi Kaskisuo \/ Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I am going to make fun of Mick Jagger a lot in the ahead article, but only because I love him and everything he stands for. Namely, that he stands for being utterly weird and somehow being one of the coolest human beings to grace the face of the Earth for the latter half of the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, this was a man, in the early \u201860s, who had already embraced androgyny well before T. Rex, David Bowie, The New York Dolls and the rest of the \u201870s glam rock scene was kicking around the slums of New York with Lou Reed in black eye makeup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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