A new book about Rock & Roll star Mick Jagger provides shocking details about his life, according to recent reports, and it is scandalous as ever.
The new unauthorized biography, "Mick: The Wild and Mad Genius of Jagger," was written by Christopher Anderson. The book reveals secrets about the Rolling Stones rock & roller, according to the CBS News.
Anderson had been covering Jagger for more than four decades, CBS News reported. He interviewed family members, friends, co-workers, wives and mistresses while writing the book. He did not speak in first person.
Anderson said that by one count Jagger had over 4,000 lovers, and had a sex addiction.
"He's been a busy boy," Andersen said. "He's (Jagger) said, 'I'm no paragon of virtue,' and he's right."
Anderson said that he was careful to confirm everything he had been told about the rock star.
"I started covering the Stones in 1969, the Altamont rock festival....I worked at it for Time magazine, worked in this business for 46 years and I'm careful to confirm every fact that's in the book, so I always stand by everything. I never stick anything in that isn't confirmed by various sources and the sources are listed in the book."
According to CBS News, Andersen said it seems Jagger is living his life in such a way to shock people. "He's been out there living kind of an outrageous life," he said.
"He does also have personal problems," Andersen continued. "(Model and actress) Jerry Hall proclaimed after putting up with his infidelity for 23 years that he was a sex addict and she asked him to get help. Keith (Richards) asked him to get help and they were thrilled when he sought help from a sex therapist until he seduced the sex therapist. I mean, that's the kind of guy we're dealing with, somebody who has personal demons and compulsions, I think," reported CBS News.
The book also reveals the friends-with-benefits relationship Jagger had with David Bowie in the 1970's, according to ABC News.
Angie Bowie, the "Ziggy Stardust" singer's first wife, recalled walking in on the two in bed.
"Angie went upstairs to her bedroom, slowly pushed the door open, and there they were: Mick Jagger and David Bowie, naked in bed together, sleeping," Andersen writes. "Both men woke up with a start. 'Oh, hello,' said Bowie, clearly taken by surprise. 'How are you?'"
In an excerpt of the book published by the New York Daily News, Anderson wrote, "Where Jagger was still coy about his own sexual preferences, Bowie made no effort to conceal the fact that both he and his wife were bisexual and often shared partners."
"I wish it had been me with Mick," Angie Bowie told Andersen. "I've always thought Mick must be a wild man in bed. He is a very sexy guy."