•𝐅𝐔𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒• Before giving up basketball, Mick experienced something on the court that altered his life—and perhaps even the course of musical history. During one especially heated game, Jagger collided with an opposing team member and bit off the tip of his own tongue. With blood spilling down the front of his jersey and before he fully realized what had hap- pened, Mick swallowed the severed tip. Mick didn't talk for nearly a week. "We all wondered if that was it—if Mick's singing days were over," said Dick Taylor, echoing his fellow Blue Boys' fears. When Mick finally did open his mouth again to sing, his bandmates were stunned. Along with the tip of his tongue went a bit of upperclass polish. Mick now sounded grittier, tougher, more authentically street. "He sounded so weird—the way he sounds now, actually," Taylor said. "That accident just changed his voice completely. Biting off the tip of his tongue might have been the best thing that ever happened to Mick Jagger."
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