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Taking that as a serious comment:
If you consider the phrase "rolling stone" to be a pointer to the band, what reasons do you have for believing the saying indicates that the leader and primary identity of the band isn't dead?
Why did you reach that particular conclusion instead of, say, "Mick Jagger isn't maximally appreciated now because he's still alive"? Can you explain your reasoning to us in an explicit way that avoids the mossy pitfalls of retroactive justifications?
Dead bodies decompose, and thus gather moss. However, there is an ambiguity. Does "a Rolling Stone" mean "any rolling stone"? In this case, clearly all members of the Rolling Stones, (including Jagger) are alive (or else cremated). However, if we simply mean "there exists a Rolling Stone, which gathers no moss," then we simply mean that not all the Rolling Stones are dead, though Jagger may be.