Mick Jagger's romantic letters up for auction

Financial issues have pushed Mick Jagger's former love Marsha Hunt, the mother of his first child, to sell off a series of love letters Jagger wrote to her in the summer of 1969, the RT reports.
 
The series of letters was written in July and August 1969, while Jagger was filming the movie ‘Ned Kelly’ in Australia. They will be sold by Sotheby’s in London next month.
 
Specialists estimate they will fetch between $111,000 and $160,000, the Guardian reported.In the 10 letters, Jagger tells his then-flame about what he is reading, makes references to the Moon landing in his letter from July 20 and writes about the death of bandmate Brian Jones.
 
“The letters speak for Mick at an incredible juncture of our lives,” Hunt said. “The summer of ’69 was the end of a whole era of revolutionary spirit – we didn’t know it was about to die. And who knew that this group of boys making music would 50 years on be still celebrated as a voice of the period?”
 
Hunt, who lives in France, said she was forced to sell the private correspondences due to serous financial woes. “I’m broke,” she said, adding that anyone who thinks she has money "knows nothing" about her. She plans to use the money from the sale of Jagger's love letters to pay her electricity bill and fund repairs to her house.
 
Hunt said that Jagger was less than thrilled that she wanted to auction off the letters. However, "they are not his," she said.”This is Mick in his own words… This is part of English history, it is part of rock history, part of cultural history and it corrects all the misinformation," Hunt said. “The sale is important. Someone, I hope, will buy those letters as our generation is dying and with us will go the reality of who we were and what life was.”   Read more... (326 words)

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