07/08/2023
Join us at One Bell Corner on Wednesday, August 9th at 12pm as we unveil two fantastic bronze statues of Dartford’s very own Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Dartford Borough Council commissioned statues of The Rolling Stones legends in 2022 and sculptor Amy Goodman has immortalised them in her piece, The Glimmer Twins. The statue was paid for through a public art contribution by Bellway London’s Copperhouse Green development on Lowfield Street.
Both Mick and Keith attended Wentworth Primary School together before going their separate ways at secondary school. Mick, who grew up on Denver Road, would attend Dartford Grammar School – now home to the Mick Jagger Centre which opened in 2000, while Keith attended Dartford Technical High School – now Wilmington Grammar School for Boys. As a boy Keith lived above a parade of shops on Chastilian Road and Sir Mick lived on Denver Road.
The pair reunited in 1961 when they met at Dartford Station and fell in to a conversation about music while waiting for a train on platform 2. They formed their own band before answering an advert placed by Brian Jones for bandmates, and went on to form The Rolling Stones, who would take the world by storm with hits like Paint It Black, Gimme Shelter, Satisfaction and Sympathy for the Devil.
They have sold millions of records worldwide and in 2020 The Rolling Stones became the first band in the history of the UK album chart to score a number one album across six different decades – and it all began in our town!
Picture credit: Russell Sach
