Mick Jagger — “Lucky In Love”

Entered Top 40:   May 25, 1985
3 weeks 
Peaked at: 38

Mick Jagger spent much of the 1980s uninterested in the Rolling Stones. The group didn’t tour to support 1983’s Undercover, and Mick began recording the She’s the Boss LP with producers Bill Laswell and Nile Rodgers. Mick got lots of all-star support, including Herbie Hancock, legendary rhythm section Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, and Jeff Beck. He also worked with Julien Temple to turn the record into a video LP, Running Out of Luck. I like that Mick is essentially cheating on Keith Richards with Jeff Beck here, but with “Lucky in Love,” I don’t know that I really want to hear Mick Jagger tell me that he gets laid a lot.

Believe it or not, Mick was younger (41) at this point than Pink is now (44).

While “Lucky in Love” was charting, the Stones would reconvene under duress to record Dirty Work. It did well enough, as did its lead single, a cover of “Harlem Shuffle” (#5 in 1986). But the group would continue its hiatus, and Jagger would record another solo record, which will land him here again, eventually.