Performance

His first film, Performance (1970), codirected with Donald Cammell, was a psychedelic drama starring Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones as a former pop superstar who is drawn into the criminal underworld of 1960s London when he takes in a gangster on the run.

…retired decadent rock star, in Performance (1970). Jagger was originally cast in Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982), for which he filmed a scene, but scheduling conflicts forced him to leave the project, and he was also cast to play Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in an early 1970s adaptation of Dune, the classic 1965…