Chris Jagger

Chris Jagger is an English musician and actor who was born in Dartford, Kent, and chose London over a drama place at the University of Manchester. He has worked in theater, cinema, clothes design and decoration, and he created the eye-covered jacket that Jimi Hendrix wore. On stage he spent six months in the musical Hair in Tel Aviv, performed with the Black Theatre of Brixton at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and joined the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, with repertory work in Nottingham, Plymouth and Hammersmith Lyric London. He contributed to the Rolling Stones albums Dirty Work (1986) and Steel Wheels (1989), has written for papers such as The Guardian, and wrote and presented a BBC Radio 2 program about Alexis Korner. He co-produced I Got the Blues in Austin for Sky Arts and, with Pat Townshend, founded the Staccato guitar company.