Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Immortalized With Hometown Statues

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will eternally be a part of Dartford, Kent, England due to a pair of bronze statues erected of their honor this week.

An unveiling ceremony was held Aug. 9 at One Bell Corner in Dartford. Neither Richards nor Jagger had been in attendance, nonetheless each Richards’ daughter and granddaughter participated within the ceremony in line with The Guardian.

The Rolling Stones cornerstones each attended major college in Dartford earlier than later assembly on a railway station within the city in 1961. The Stones began the next yr.

A publish on the band’s official Facebook states the sculptures are named “The Glimmer Twins.”

According to a 2012 article printed by Rolling Stone, the Glimmer Twins nickname could be traced again to a ship journey Jagger and Richards took to Rio in 1974.

Richards instructed the journal that fellow vacationers consistently requested he and his bandmate about who they had been due to their flashy apparel.

“‘We’ve been asking you for days and you just won’t say. Can’t you give us just a glimmer?'” Richards recounted. “Mick turned to me and said, ‘We’re the Glimmer Twins.'”

The new statues, which present Jagger and Richards mid-performance, had been designed by artist Amy Goodman. She instructed The Guardian that the Stones members are depicted as they had been within the Nineteen Eighties.

“I was a nervous wreck,” Goodman admitted. “There was a lot of pressure because they are such icons.”

The statues be a part of different tributes to the Rolling Stones all through Dartford. The city is dotted with streets named after the band’s songs together with Little Red Walk, Angie Mews and Ruby Tuesday Drive.

Dartford is roughly 20 miles east of London and has a inhabitants round 116,000.