Malcolm McDowell horrified the world in A Clockwork Orange, but another miscreant was originally keen to play the murderous droog: Mick Jagger. (Even more startling? According to recently released letters from executive producer Si Litvinoff, the Beatles wanted to score it.) Although Orange author Anthony Burgess apparently sold the rights to Jagger during lean times for $500, Mick never did get his chance to star as Alex DeLarge. Don't feel too badly—he got his rocks off later, as a Weimar-era drag queen in Bent.

[Guardian]