Mick Jagger's best revelations in 'My Life As a Rolling Stone' on Epix - USA TODAY

“I’m going to try to keep it light,” Mick Jagger says with a rubbery grin at the start of “My Life As a Rolling Stone.” .

But the four-part docuseries that debuts Sunday on Epix (9 p.m. EDT/PDT) tenders a comprehensive overview of how the Rolling Stones became the ROLLING STONES with vintage performance footage and interview clips, plus new commentary from Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. .

Though there is plenty of Stones minutiae to digest, at its core, the episode emphasizes the band’s inimitable frontman and CEO, of whom Richards says, “He really is an honorable man under all that crap.” .

Arnold, one of the vaunted Ikettes, says the “sexy” and “cool” Jagger would also come backstage to learn dance moves from the Turners’ backup performers.

But rather than dwell on the arrests of Jagger and Richards (after much legal drama, Richards' sentence was overturned and Jagger's was reduced to a conditional discharge), the scenario added to the mystique of the Rolling Stones as the rebellious foil to their groomed rivals, The Beatles

When the Rolling Stones were invited to play on ’60s-era TV music show “Ready Steady Go!,” Jagger seized the opportunity as a way to “work the medium” and beam into people’s homes.    

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But even one of rock’s mightiest power players had to be told “no” sometimes, and it was left to Richards to steer Jagger from one of his loftiest ideas: having an elephant come on stage at the end of the show to present him with a rose from his trunk.