Bronze statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, unveiled last week in Dartford, are not a high point
In Dartford, Kent, last week, a grand unveiling. The Glimmer Twins, featuring two of the town’s most famous sons, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, is the work of Amy Goodman, a sculptor hitherto best known for a bust of Florence Nightingale.
Goodman has captured the ageing musicians mid-performance: Richards is bent over his guitar, Jagger struts like a turkey. The council that commissioned her is, it seems, utterly delighted with the result. “We want young creative people to get a little bit of the Keith and Mick spirit and pursue their dreams,” said Jeremy Kite, the leader of Dartmouth borough council, as locals slowly took in the pair’s bronze vests, their outsize pouts and pointedly splayed legs.
