For those of you not around in the 80s, he's a russety ringleted singer from a band called Simply Red, who have been simply dead (apologies) for quite some time - that hasn't stopped them from attempting a "farewell tour", however.
In an unusual marketing technique, Mick has taken to publicly apologising to the female gender for his behaviour: "I regret the philandering. In fact, can I issue a public apology through The Guardian? They know who they are, and I'm truly sorry. When I had the fame, it went crazy. Between 1985 and 1987, I would sleep with about three women a day, every day (seriously)... I never said no. This was what I wanted from being a popstar. I was living the dream and my only regret is that I hurt some really good girls. I wanted love from every single woman on the planet because I didn't have my mother's love." Ew, ew, ew... ew... ewewewewew. And not at all clichéd.
He continued with: "It was an addiction that took me to my darker period (ew) from 1996 to 2001, when I really came close to the gutter - I was more into drinking than seducing... I never really got the emotional contact that I craved... A red-headed man is not generally considered to be a sexual icon."
Sexual icon. OK, he did "date" the likes of Helena Christiensen and Catherine Zeta Jones, but does that make him a sexual icon? He's not exactly Robert Redford. Or Red Hurley.
