Mick Jagger Celebrates 70th Birthday
BALDWIN: Happy birthday, Mick Jagger, celebrating 70 today, the man who burst on the scene as a teenager, still going strong. Jagger is performing for audiences worldwide, singing "Start Me Up," other "Rolling Stones" classics. Entertainment correspondent Nischelle Turner has his story.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age 50. You're sadly, sadly mistaken.</s>NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): That clip from "Almost Famous" was only off by 20 years and counting. Today, the legendary rock icon celebrates his 70th birthday.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy birthday, Mick. You know I love you.</s>TURNER: While many septuagenarians have eased into retirement, the Rolling Stones recently capped off a grueling tour of the United States with three high-profile homecoming dates in the United Kingdom.</s>JOE LEVY, BILLBOARD: Seeing Jagger perform with the stones at this point is that he looks like a 20-year-old guy with the head of a 60- year-old surgically implanted.</s>TURNER: Solo artists like BB King, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan continue to tour into their 70s and 80s. But Jagger along with 71- year-old Paul McCartney is blazing a trail for rock 'n' roll front men.</s>MICK JAGGER, SINGER, THE ROLLING STONES: They're all entertainers, a huge longevity like Frank Sinatra and others, but there wasn't bands that have been 50 years. There's already a role model for that. Good or bad role model, I can't tell you.</s>TURNER: In 2003, Mick Jagger celebrated bad boy became Sir Michael Jagger when he was knighted for his services to music.</s>LEVY: Jagger at 20 was a counter cultural figure and something of a revolutionary artistically and politically. Jagger at 70 is a member of the establishment.</s>TURNER: Although he's a grandfather four times over, his charisma remains as timeless as his music. That's even made him a favorite guest on "Saturday Night Live."</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, I've got a great idea. Why don't you go out and do the rooster.</s>LEVY: The Stones in the 1960s and in the '70s embodied a fantasy for their audience that you could live any way you wanted to. But now they embody a very different kind of fantasy, for their audience. You can keep going at 70. You cannot only be alive, but you can keep doing what you love.</s>TURNER: Nischelle Turner, CNN, New York.</s>BALDWIN: Coming up, O.J. Simpson asked a parole board to let him out of jail early and the whole thing is on camera. Hear why he says he shouldn't have to finish his sentence. Plus two women run to rescue a driver involved in a traffic accident, but died while doing so. Now the driver is facing charges in connection with their deaths. We're on the case.