Mick Jagger: Rolling Stones star gives update on health in first interview since heart surgery

Rock and roll icon said he has already been back in the gym and rehearsing for the Stones rescheduled tour dates in North America

Mick Jagger has spoken about the Rolling Stones’ forthcoming North American tour in his first interview since undergoing heart surgery, which postponed the shows from April to June.

Jagger spoke with Toronto radio station Q107 where he said he was “feeling pretty good” and that he was already back in the gym and in rehearsals preparing for the live shows.

“We’re trying to pick some [songs] we haven’t done in recent years, stuff we haven’t done before,” he said.

“Most of the time people don’t want too much unusual. People like a little bit unusual. They don’t want 100 percent unusual.”

If Jagger’s comments weren’t enough to convince fans that he is fit for the tour, a recent, viral video the musician posted on Instagram of him rehearsing in a dance studio will have been.

Keith Richards also gave a recent interview to the Toronto Sun about Jagger, commenting: “He went through it very easily. He’s in great shape — rocking. As I say, it seemed to be no problem at all really.”

“It was just, ‘Oh, Mick will be better.’ We’ll just wait around because there was no doubt that we’d soon pick it up. It just had to be done. So we did it.”

The Rolling Stones kick off the North American leg of their tour on 21 June in Chicago.