Sir Mick Jagger learned to dance from Tina Turner: “He picked it up quickly!”

Sir Mick Jagger learned to dance from Tina Turner: “He picked it up quickly!”

Sir Mick Jagger learned to dance from Tina Turner.

The 79-year-old Rolling Stones frontman took her under his wing after she relaunched her career following her divorce from abusive Ike Turner. The late “Private Dancer” singer said he never gave her credit for teaching him some of his trademark stage moves.

Tina, born Anna Mae Bullock and dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” whose death at the age of 83 was announced by her team on May 24, said in her memoir, “My Love Story,” of her and her dancers teaching Mick: “Mick would show up in the dressing room I shared with our dancers and say in his unmistakable voice, ‘I like the way you girls dance.'”

“Well, we had seen him strutting around the stage with his tambourine and thought he looked a bit strange.

“So we brought him in and taught him the pony, our signature prancing footwork.

“Mick caught on quickly, but he found it difficult to do certain steps. He obviously kept practicing because when we saw him do a bit of pony dancing at his next show, we thought, ‘Well, that’s good.’

“Not that he ever gave us any credit for his new, sophisticated footwork. To this day, Mick likes to say, ‘My mother taught me to dance.’

“OK, fine – but I know better.”

Tina recounted how Mick ripped her skirt off during her Live Aid performance in 1985: “Just like me, he could never just stand there and sing.

Take, for example, our performance together at Live Aid in 1985, where I wore a tight black leather top and skirt.

“He looked at me and I saw a naughty idea forming in his mind. ‘Is that skirt coming off?’ he asked mischievously. ‘What!’ was my astonished reply.

“I’m going to take off your skirt,” he said. I asked him why, but it was too late to talk about it.

“Mick had already made up his mind. ‘Just to create something,’ he said.

“I was understandably a little nervous because no one had ever taken my skirt off on stage before. Luckily I was prepared… when he took my skirt off with a flourish, I was relieved that it wasn’t bad.

“Thanks to the dancer’s briefs that held me like a girdle and the fishnet stockings that hid my underwear, everything was in shape and in place, like a dancer.

“I managed to look startled – that’s the actress in me – and I ducked behind Mick to make it look like a real surprise. The audience loved it.

“Mick is just naughty, you know? The first time I was on stage with him, he tried to shove the microphone into my crotch.”

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