Sir Mick Jagger’s daughter spent a decade begging Glastonbury bosses to book Rolling Stones

Sir Mick Jagger’s daughter Lizzy “actively stalked” Emily Eavis and spent a decade trying to get her to book the Rolling Stones for Glastonbury.

Sir Mick Jagger’s daughter “actively stalked” Emily Eavis to get her to book the Rolling Stones for Glastonbury.

The Start Me Up group only performed at the festival for the first time in 2013, but Lizzy Jagger has admitted she had spent a decade actively campaigning for her dad to get on stage at Worthy Farm, though organisers just assumed the group wouldn’t want to play for their relatively low fee.

In a piece for the Sunday Times about her relationship with younger sister Georgia Jagger, Lizzy said: “Georgia moved to New York to live with me when she was just 18.

“Years later we both lived in LA and now I’ve followed her back to London, but we’ve always got together for big occasions like Glastonbury.

“We were both there in 2013 when the Rolling Stones played and it was incredible.

“I’d literally spent ten years chasing the festival trying to get them to book the Stones. I actively stalked Emily Eavis. The festival didn’t think the band would want to play because it doesn’t pay very well.”

While the sisters initially watched the group’s set from the side of the stage, they didn’t stay in the exclusive spot for long because they wanted to be part of the crowd.

Lizzy recalled: “Georgia and I watched the start of the show together from the side of the stage, then looked at each other and said, ‘This feels weird watching at Glastonbury from the edge of the stage.’

“So we went out into the crowd and had a really good time.”

Mick has eight children with five different women, as well as six grandkids and three great-grandchildren, and Lizzy admitted family occasions can be chaotic.

She said: “There are eight of us in total who share the same dad and we tend to all get together either for Dad’s birthday or at his house on Mustique for Christmas and the new year, and it’s really fun.

“With all our kids it’s a pretty big gang and it can be a bit overwhelming. We’re not an easy family to invite to dinner…

“A friend recently said, ‘One child is like having an oversized backpack — you can take that anywhere. Any more than two is a circus and you can’t take a circus anywhere.’ I told Dad and he thought it was hilarious.”