Could You Pass a Quiz About Rolling Stones Frontman Mick Jagger?

Answer a series of forehead-slapping anecdotal factoids. It's up to you to weigh each fact in each anecdotal factoid. They're tricky. One might seem like total B.S. until it's revealed to be strangely and disturbingly "True." Another anecdotal factoid might seem to contain all solid and verifiable facts until it's revealed to be yet one more big fat garden variety "Bald-Faced Lie." And here's the trickiest part: an anecdotal factoid might even be "Half-True"; in other words, a mishmosh of truths and bald-faced lies, where you don't know where one ends and the other begins, much like the usual slop served by Madison Avenue, Washington D.C., and the Internet in its entirety.

Category: That Shirtless Singing Liver-Lips Old Guy Quiz

Decide for yourself, and mark "T" for "Truth", "F" for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" for "Half-Truth" in the blank slot next to each factoid.

1) __ For the 2006 Super Bowl half time show, the ABC television network insisted that Mick Jagger not sing "Sweet Neo Con", a song from the Stones' latest album that was strongly critical of the Bush Administration. Despite the warning, Jagger sang the song. He later told reporters that he performed the song as a tribute to the city of New Orleans and the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

2) __ In 2006, Jagger played himself in an ABC dramatic series titled "Let's Rob Mick Jagger." The show used a similar formula as the network's action serial "24". It was about the real Mick Jagger being kidnapped by criminals and held for ransom, and the police and FBI efforts to rescue him.

3) __ In 2002, singer Carly Simon revealed that the long mysterious subject of her song "You're So Vain" was Mick Jagger.

4) __ When his supermodel wife Jerry Hall filed for divorce in 1999, Jagger claimed that their 1990 marriage on the island of Bali wasn't legally binding, thus limiting her financial claims on his estate. Under British law, their Hindu ceremony wasn't legal.

5) __ At the disastrous 1969 Altamont Free Rolling Stones Concert, there were three accidental deaths, one murder, and four births. Of the three accidental deaths, two were caused by a hit-and-run automotive accident and the third was caused by drowning in an irrigation ditch.

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Here are the answers for That Shirtless Singing Liver-Lips Old Guy Quiz

A reminder: "T" is for "Truth", "F" is for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" is for "Half-Truth".

1) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's true that the ABC television network told Jagger not sing the anti-Bush song "Sweet Neo Con" during the Stones' 2006 Super Bowl half time performance. It's false that Jagger sang the song at the Super Bowl despite the network's warning.

The network did impose a five-second delay during the Stones performance to assure that objectionable lyrics didn't make it to air.

2) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's true that Jagger played himself in a show for ABC titled "Let's Rob Mick Jagger." The title, however, was only used for the series pilot. It's false that this was a dramatic series. The sitcom was re-titled "Knight$ of Prosperity" because the show's producers weren't sure that Jagger would stay on for the series' duration.

As expected, Jagger did leave the show, which only lasted for a few episodes. In the four unaired episodes, the crook characters attempted to rob Ray Romano.

3) F: Even though Jagger sang a duet with Carly Simon on her 1972 hit song, "You're So Vain", she specifically denied that Mick was the song's subject in interviews from 1993 and 2000.

4) T: It's true that, during their 1999 divorce, Jagger claimed that his 1990 marriage to supermodel Jerry Hall on the island of Bali wasn't legally binding because their Hindu ceremony wasn't recognized in the British court.

5) T: It's true that there were three accidental deaths, one murder, and four births at Altamont. It's also true that, of the three accidental deaths, two were caused by a hit-and-run automotive accident and the third was caused by drowning in an irrigation ditch.

SOURCES:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-01-15-halftime-show_x.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11193993/

"Mick Jagger joins a new ABC sitcom", New York Times, Bill Carter, URL: (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/arts/television/26jagg.html?ex=1303704000&en=21ac0b2d0afdce42&ei=5088)

"Let's just rob show titles of all originality", Doug Elfman, Chicago Sun-Times, URL: (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060720/ai_n16675163)

"Rock & Roll's Worst Day", John Burks, Rolling Stone, URL: (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5934386/rock__rolls_worst_day)

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,615210,00.html

"The Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces", Saabira Chaudhuri, Forbes, URL: (http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/2006/10/26/divorce-celebrities-fame-pf-cz_sc_1026divorce.html)

http://www.carlysimon.com/vain/vain.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/04/jagger.richards.reut/

"No posterity for 'Prosperity'", Michael Schneider, Variety, URL: (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960574.html?categoryid=14&cs=1)