He tells The Sun: "I tried some of his moves. I did very bad imitations but they were fun. You're in this phase of your career when you're 19 or 20 when you're basically doing cover versions and copying other people. Everybody did it and, if you got any good, you evolved your own style."

The Stones mainman co-produced the new movie Get On Up - a biopic of Brown's life and he says The Godfather Of Soul's influence can be heard throughout the music world.