Mick Jagger’s tragic regrets about David Bowie

Significantly, their friendship led to the creation of the hit collaboration “Dancing In The Street,” which brought together the seismic talents of Jagger and Bowie to create pop perfection. The track, which topped the charts in the UK, remains Jagger’s most successful release outside of the Rolling Stones.

After Jagger left New York, their meetings became less regular, but they continued to be in contact. However, as everyone knows in their own lives, it can be difficult to maintain these relationships forever without face-to-face interaction. There was no giant argument that caused them to spend less time with each other. Instead, life simply had different plans for the couple. It wasn’t possible to party like the ’80s forever, and they took the roads they chose.

As a result, in the last years of Bowie’s life, Jagger was not part of it, which greatly upset him when he found out that “The Starman” had died in 2016. After Bowie retired from the touring circuit in 2004, he also largely disappeared from the public eye, focusing first and foremost on his family, eliminating chances of catching Jagger at an industry event.

For many years, no one heard of Bowie until after his release. The day after in 2013. Additionally, two days before Bowie’s death in 2016, he released his final album, Black Starwhich dealt with his impending demise. Jagger knew his old friend was in poor health, but he didn’t realize the severity of his health problems until it was too late.

After his death, Jagger said: “I know David stopped touring around 2004 after having some health problems. After that he kind of disappeared, both from my life and from the scene, so to speak, until he came back with an album that was a very interesting piece. It’s really sad when someone leaves and you haven’t spoken to them for a long time. You would have liked to do that; you would have liked to do that. But that’s what’s happening. Strange things happen in life.

In a subsequent conversation with The mirrorJagger recalled his immediate thought as he listened Black Star was to contact Bowie. However, rather than instantly acting on instinct, Jagger unfortunately waited and, as a result, never had a final conversation with Bowie. Jagger recalls: “I thought I should contact him because I hadn’t seen him for a long time. But he died almost immediately afterwards. I was very upset. I was listening to his album before he died and before it came out.

Even though Bowie suffered greatly towards the end, he used Black Star to express his pain and pulled back perfectly, which Jagger finds entirely commendable. He added: “What he was going through must have been truly heartbreaking. But working and doing such a good job until the end is truly commendable.

As Jagger says, this speaks volumes about the burning creativity that resided within Bowie even during his final days. Although he was not fit enough to go on stage, the studio was his chosen coping mechanism to deal with life’s perplexities until he breathed his last. Nevertheless, Black Star is now tinged with regret for Jagger and serves as an eternal reminder of a phone call he should have made.

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