But we know what the press made out of him singing duets with a much younger woman when he toured with Aspen Miller, despite the fact that she had a strong voice and considerable stage presence for someone of her years.
Meat and Patti have tremendous synergy on stage, an impressively intuitive understanding after working together for so many years, and she does any spicing up the show needs
Meat puts such heavy passion into his songs, more than many other performers, and I think it needs a singer of Patti's depth, experience, maturity and stature to match it and make the duets work, and also avoid negative comment by journalists, and to be fair, some fans. To me, Meat is about as far from Jagger as you could find, and what works on stage for one is unlikely to work for the other.
Caryl