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Michela Mollia
2+ albums
ambientelectronicdrone
about
In the annals of Mick Jagger scholarship, one name has proved more contentious than any other. A name whose mere mention caused a ruckus that ended in several bloody noses at the Jagger Studies conference in 2009. A name which has harshed the buzz during hundreds of peyote benders, and a name that inspires passionate endorsements and equally passionate renouncements. The name? Michela Mollia. The facts themselves do not offer much to explain the fervoured argumentation which this name gives rise to. Only two songs recorded by Mollia are extant, both appear on Italian compilations of electronic music by obscure composers, both are lengthy drone pieces and both were undoubtedly recorded in the mid 1980s by Mick Jagger and released under the Mollia alias. Neither compilation received much attention in the press, and were only reviewed by a couple of specialist magazines. In none of these reviews were the Mollia tracks singled out for special attention. The controversy began with the publication of Rhiannon Lucy Coslett's paper 'Michela Mollia: The REAL Mick Jagger' in 2007. Coslett, using a dense assemblage of biographical detail, archival footage and paperwork that the man the world knew as Mick Jagger had in fact been a woman, Michela Mollia. Born in Italy, Mollia moved to London as a young girl. As a teenager she began attempting to pass as male as a way of being taken more seriously as a singer/songwriter in the rock clubs of the day. With mixed success at first, she gra
