Jagger Settles with Model

After almost two years of negotiations, Mick Jagger and Brazilian model Luciana Morad have reached a financial settlement regarding their twenty-one-month-old son, Lucas.

Morad, thirty, initially demanded $35,000 a month in child support, while the Rolling Stones frontman offered $10,000 a month. Details of the settlement, which were hammered out in Manhattan Family Court on February 6th, were kept confidential, but the settlement will also provide for Morad's legal bills and ensures that Jagger will pay for his son's schooling and medical bills until he reaches twenty-one.

"I'm relieved. I'm glad this is over," Morad told reporters after exiting the New York City court. "I feel I've done the best I can do monetarily and emotionally." Jagger, fifty-seven, did not attend the proceeding but consented to the terms via speakerphone from London. Both Morad's attorney Raoul Felder and Jagger's lawyer John Vassallo refused to comment on the settlement.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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