Jagger and Richards honoured in hometown for Rolling Stones achievements

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been honoured in their hometown with a pair of statues to celebrate their musical achievements with The Rolling Stones. “We could have had the old fashioned standing upright statue, but this is Mick Jagger and Keith Richards we’re talking about, and they don’t stand still, so our statues don’t.” The statues were financed through a public art subscription fund, to which developers contributed, said Mr Kite. “The two main aims are just to celebrate two really good Dartfordians that we’re very proud of, but also to inspire young people,” he said. “When these two started out, music was a very different scene, and they changed things, and so what we’re trying to do is to inspire people to say ‘I come from Dartford, I can go and change the world, just like these two’.” Sir Mick and Richards first met as classmates in Dartford and went on to found The Rolling Stones in the 1960s.