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Well, this one’s obligatory: It’s Mick Jagger’s 70th birthday. So here he was performing “Time Is On My Side” in 1964.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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