Jagger and BB King rock the House
February 22 | Posted by | Celelebrity
Mick Jagger has delivered some bluesy rock to the White House with a celebration of blues that brought out US music legends like BB King and Buddy Guy.
In a black suit and scarlet shirt, The Rolling Stones frontman, 68, rocked the East Room of the US presidential mansion at the Red, White and Blues event on Tuesday, singing I Can’t Turn You Loose.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama smiled and got their groove on without even leaving home.
As president ‘some nights when you want to go out and just take a walk, clear your head, or jump into a automobile just to take a drive, you cannot do it. Secret Service will not let you. And that is frustrating’, Obama said.
‘But then there are other nights where BB King and Mick Jagger come over to your house to play for a concert. I guess things even out a tiny bit,’ he joked.
Jagger also let loose Commit a Crime with fellow British rocker Jeff Beck.
‘We met everyone who was recording here, I just was remembering how generous they were to us. They must have thought that we were from Mars or something,’ Jagger joked.
‘They were very generous and passed all the tips.’
Obama stated that the blues remained a popular and powerful genre.
‘This music talks to something universal. No one goes through life without both joy and pain, triumph and sorrow, the blues gets all of that, sometimes with just a lyric or just one note,’ Obama said.
‘As we celebrate black history month, the blues reminds us that we have been through tougher times before.’