Jumpin' Jack Flashback! All the Jagger swagger...but no this isn't Mick, it's his dead-ringer son James  

By Angella Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 17:08 EST, 23 January 2016 | Updated: 23:46 EST, 23 January 2016

Do the eyes have it… or is it something else, perhaps, that makes it clear this is Sir Mick Jagger’s son?

The 30-year-old actor strikes the same strutting pose made famous by his father in a new HBO TV drama series, Vinyl, about the music industry in 1970s New York.

James plays the lead singer of punk band Nasty Bits.

The eldest son from Rolling Stone Mick’s relationship with former model Jerry Hall is hoping that this will be his breakout role.

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Actor James Jagger strikes the same strutting pose made famous by his father in new HBO TV drama series, Vinyl
The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger performing on stage

Spitting image: James Jagger as a punk rocker in Vinyl, left, and his dad Mick Jagger performing on stage, right 

He is certainly attracting a lot of attention with his portrayal of a young musician, by drawing on his dad’s iconic image.

His super-lean physique and shaggy hairstyle all add up to a particularly Mick-inspired character. 

He also has the same capacity for facial acrobatics as his father, who is one of the show’s executive producers alongside Martin Scorsese.

HBO programming president Michael Lombardo has said about the show: ‘James is playing a young musician who looks not unlike his father. 

'But the band has nothing to do with The Rolling Stones. Very different period. Very different trajectory. 

'So no, this is not a story of The Rolling Stones or Mick Jagger, although you will see someone in the series that looks startlingly close to Mick.’

Jagger Jr’s previous acting credits include 2010 film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll about singer Ian Dury, and 2011’s Stealing Summers.

But he more recently hit the headlines this month for joking about drugs when he posted a picture on Facebook captioned ‘stoned again’, where he looked bleary-eyed.

James Jagger, right, has the same capacity for facial acrobatics as his father Mick, left, who is one of the executive producers of Vinyl 

James Jagger, right, has the same capacity for facial acrobatics as his father Mick, left, who is one of the executive producers of Vinyl 

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