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1967 at the Saville Theatre, London: Chris fits up Jimi Hendrix with the handmade jacket he made for him and which subsequently appeared on US record covers
Chris Jagger Last year Chris Jagger (OE 1966) released a new album, Mixing up the Medicine, and a memoir, Talking to Myself. Here he answers some questions put to him by Andrew Beattie.
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e has made a dozen albums, shared a stage with Pierce Brosnan, been on a journalistic mission to Tibet, made blues documentaries for TV and written lyrics for two Rolling Stones albums – and his brother Mick, whom he has kept in touch with over the years, sings on the opening track of his new album. His is a story worth telling, as he demonstrates here.
You’ve written and performed over a hundred songs over the course of your career. Which are your favourites, and which would you recommend to those coming to your work for the first time? Usually the favourites are the ones you’ve recently written – so, in this case, the songs on Mixing up the Medicine which were written with
