8 NOVEMBER 2001
Ageing party animal Mick Jagger has finally ’fessed up on film to what most of us have already been aware of for a while - his morals are rather less than clearly defined.

“I’m a moral person but I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy,” he reveals, adding that as far as he is concerned, “enjoying life is not an exclusive preserve of young people.” Hitting the town with "beautiful girls" is preferable to “an old fart in the pub talking about what you were like in the Sixties,” he insists.

The Rolling Stones front man, whose romantic exploits have filled more than a few column inches over the last few decades, also admitted that he is not suited to a life of monogamy. “I don’t necessarily believe that for all people marriage is a perfect state,” he said.

It is a sentiment which his seven children by four different women and broken marriage to Jerry Hall would apparently bear witness to. He and Jerry were involved for 22 years, but when model Luciana Morad gave birth to Mick’s son, Lucas, the Texan beauty called it a day and they were separated in 1998.

Mick makes his revelations in a new Channel 4 documentary entitled Being Mick, for which the normally private star granted access over the course of a year to several of his far flung homes and members of his extended family. He is shown in various intimate situations, including having his hair styled, cleaning his teeth and visiting the doctor.

Four of his children – Gabriel, Georgia, Elizabeth and James – feature in the film, which was made by Oscar-winning documentarian Kevin MacDonald and will be released to publicise his new solo effort Goddess In The Doorway.

Former wife, Jerry – although Jagger successfully argued in court that their 1990 wedding in Bali was not valid – was also much in evidence, and the pair were pictured dancing cheek to cheek at a party in the house they share in Richmond. At one point she tells the 58-year-old rocker to turn off the camera saying sternly: “There is work and there is life, and it’s time for life.”

Other high points include Jade, his daughter by ex-wife Bianca, teasing him about his relationship with Sophie Dahl – “Don’t bring home one of those young ones, Dad. No one younger than me” – and Mick himself skilfully mimicking actress Kate Winslet for pulling out of the premiere of Enigma in which she starred and he produced.

The documentary is scheduled to be shown on Channel 4 in the UK and ABC Television Network in the US on November 22.