As Mick Jagger heads for heart surgery, Keith Richards continues to defy the odds

Who thought he’d be the Stone to crack!

Mick Jagger will undergo heart surgery in New York City this week, sources told The Post — as his permanently pickled bandmate Keith Richards continues his march toward seeming immortality.

The 75-year-old Rolling Stones frontman will come to get his ticker fixed following the band’s announcement last week that it was pushing pause on the US leg of its No Filter tour, which had been set to kick off in a couple weeks.

Doctors will put in a stent to prop up at least one of his arteries, according to sources close to Jagger.

Despite his age, Jagger still has time on his side and is expected to make a full recovery thanks to his hale physical condition, sources added.

Noting that normally with such a procedure “you can be back at work within weeks,” one source speculated that the band’s postponement “could be because the health checks are all set into the insurance for the tour. Maybe they’re being careful.”

Jagger — a father of eight and grandfather of five — is known for his healthy living, which includes a fitness regimen, an organic diet and thousand-dollar skin-care products.

Meanwhile, Richards, also 75, has long been the butt of jokes over his unflagging health despite smoking like a chimney and generally treating his body like a DEA evidence locker.

The hard-living, hard-rocking guitarist called sobriety “novel” when he cleaned up in 2018. He has kicked the heroin and cocaine that fueled him for decades.

“Drugs are not interesting these days. They are very institutionalized and bland. And, anyway, I’ve done ’em all,” he told The Independent that year.

Last week, Richards tweeted out his sympathies to his musical partner in crime since 1962.

“A big disappointment for everyone but things need to be taken care of and we will see you soon. Mick, we are always there for you!” the guitar slinger wrote.

Richards survived Nazi bombing raids growing up in World War II London, was nearly electrocuted onstage in 1965, awoke to flames after setting his bed ablaze with a cigarette in 1971, and accidentally dosed himself with strychnine-laced cocaine a few years later.

Still, his only major health scare came in 2006, when doctors removed a blood clot from his brain.

A year later, he snorted his dead father’s ashes cut with cocaine — or was it vice versa?

“It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive,” Richards recalled to The Guardian.

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