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Mick Jagger Pleads for Haiti Donations on Larry King Special

Mick JaggerWhile the Rolling Stones have been laying low recently, Mick Jagger took to Skype on Monday to plead for donations to help Haitians affected by last week's devastating earthquake. Jagger appeared on Larry King's special 'Haiti: How You Can Help,' which also included musicians such as Ringo Starr, Snoop Dogg, Diddy, Jennifer Lopez, Pete Wentz and Jared Leto manning donation phone lines. The two-hour program raised $5 million for UNICEF and the American Red Cross.

"Haiti is obviously one of the most poor countries in the Western Hemisphere," Jagger said, "and when these terrible disasters happen in a very poor place, the result is magnified over and over and over what it would be in a country more accessible or with more infrastructure left. This is a huge massive disaster for one of the poorest, poorest countries -- it's so poor, it's very hard to describe how poor it is compared to all the other countries in our hemisphere."

"An earthquake is incredibly, physically damaging but it's also psychologically damaging because all the laws that govern your life -- your walking, the ground beneath your feet, everything happening to you -- is destroyed in those moments," he continued. "It's very gratifying to see so much outpouring of help from every country, in every way -- from people giving money, from people sending support groups. I think there's not been one, the slightest hint of problems with people wanting to send money or help every possible way they can."

"People have been wonderfully generous," Jagger said of the relief efforts. He encouraged people to donate by texting "Haiti" to the Red Cross relief fund at 90999 or "Unicef" to 20222. "It's a beautiful country with very welcoming people, with fantastic culture, with wonderful music, with incredible dance and strange history," Jagger said of Haiti. "It's a unique country and it's very, very sad when you see this happening to somewhere you've been."

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OZZY BERMANSCHLAGER

I MET MICK JAGGER AT THE " EL MACCOMBO NIGHT CLUB "in Toronto , Ontario. Canada , BACK IN 1965 ! I was only 15 years of age at that time ! Mick remembers me well since I gave HIM and THE ROLLING STONES ,THE ROCK AND ROLL BAND many " Music Tunes and Songs " to play to their Greater Audiences , these many years ! I must say " Mick Jagger And The Rolling Stones " have done very well since then ! MICK WILL CONTINUE TO DUE WELL FOR AS LONG AS he LIVES as long as he continues with his " ROCK & ROLL TRADITIONAL SONGS " ! And not that fake ROCK AND ROLL Music STUFF ! If you know what I mean ? All the BEST to MICK JAGGER AND THE ROLLING STONES for many years to come !

January 24 2010 at 6:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
frank thames

hey! how about another world tour benefiting haiti in some way or another, mick? *wishful thinking*

January 22 2010 at 9:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
carlos

Mick Jagger is crazy and God, I love him.

January 19 2010 at 4:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lisa demore

Mick the greatest frontman, with a caring soul!

January 19 2010 at 4:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply