Mick Jagger hits pension age

LONDON (Reuters) - From Saturday, Mick Jagger will be entitled to a basic state pension of just under 91 pounds a week.

But he will have to wait another five years for free roof insulation -- that benefit is only available to people aged over 70.

The lead singer of rock band The Rolling Stones turns 65 on Saturday, making him an old age pensioner, albeit in name only.

Jagger continues to turn back the clock with age-defying live performances, recently impressing cinema audiences with his energetic strutting and pouting captured by director Martin Scorsese in 2008 rock documentary "Shine a Light".

Although his off-stage antics no longer match the rock'n'roll excess of fellow Stone Ronnie Wood, recently admitted to rehab for a drinking problem, Jagger is clearly not about to rest on his laurels and tend to the garden.

He is increasingly involved in film production, acting as executive producer on "Shine a Light" and backing two other feature films since then. Rumours of a new Rolling Stones album and world tour also regularly surface in the news pages.

Should Jagger's estimated 225 million pound fortune, plus pension, prove insufficient, another tour would be a sure way of helping make ends meet.

The Rolling Stones' "A Bigger Bang" tour became the most successful of all time, grossing $558,255,524 (281 million pounds) from 2005 to 2007, according to Stones tour producer Michael Cohl.

Michael Philip Jagger was born in Dartford on July 26, 1943, the son of a school teacher and a hairdresser.