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Father's little helper
As the Stones prepare to roll again, their offspring are emerging from the shadows. John Robinson rates the rock'n'roll credentials of the new chips off the old blocks
Saturday August 23, 2003
10. Karis Jagger
Who? Mick's first daughter, born in 1970. A sometime actress and film producer.
Why rock? Karis was born into the apex of Stones madness. Mick had broken up with Marianne Faithfull, had yet to marry Bianca Jagger, and fitted in a relationship with the beautiful star of Hair, Marsha Hunt. Karis also marked the emergence of a familiar Jagger riff - the long-running paternity suit. It was 1979 before an LA court granted Hunt a settlement.
Like father? In fact, no - a bit more like mum. Hunt was once a Berkeley student, Karis, meanwhile, graduated Yale. While still in her early 20s she produced her mother's one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival, and later appeared in the Wesley Snipes movie One Night Stand. She's also married.
9. Julian Jones
Who? One of the many offspring of deceased Stones founder Brian Jones. Born 1964.
Why rock? Julian's famous associations run not just to one famous 1960s musician, but two - after Brian died in 1969, Julian's mum Julia Lawrence married the folk musician Donovan. On a rather less happy level Julian bears testimony to Brian's rather offhand way with his personal relationships. He is, for example, the second of Jones' sons to be called Julian. He is preceded by Julian Mark, born to Pat Andrews in 1961.
Like father? He has, he says, "music in the blood, and in his heart". Rather more helpfully, he's also got some on his website.
8. Marlon Richards
Who? First born to Riff, and his then girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, in 1969.
Why rock? As well as having a marked resemblance to his dad, Marlon is the new generation of rock royalty - a bit art, a bit fashion, a bit hanging out with Chloe Sevigny - in a nutshell. Of an artistic bent (he's art director of hip anti-fashion mag Cheap Date and has shown work at London's Zoltar The Magnificent), Marlon is now a pretty settled sort of a guy. Once an escort to "unsettled" Tatum O'Neal, he's now married to model Lucie de la Falaise, and has two children, to whom Liv Tyler is godmother.
Like father? Evidently a bit more than he is his mum. He once described her life as "embarrassing".
7. Dandelion Richards
Who? To Riff and Anita Pallenberg, in 1972, a daughter.
Why rock? Though she grew up outside the walls of rock royalty (Dandelion was brought up by Keith's mum Doris), Keith's second child is rock through and through. For a start, Dandelion is the name of the Jagger-Richards composition on the B-side of 1967's We Love You. Her "real" name, Angela, lent itself to another one, Angie, which when she married in 1998 was the tune to which she walked - perhaps inappropriately, given the tone of the song - down the aisle.
Like father? Not really. A teetotaller, she married her carpenter boyfriend Dominic Jennings, and professed an interest in keeping her job as a stable girl. She lives in Dartford.
6. Stephen Wyman
Who? Bill's son, from his marriage to first wife Diane McCollum.
Why rock? For helping to create a pretty interesting scene -he was banned from his own father's wedding. Though in 1989 media attention was mainly focused on Bill's courtship of bride-to-be Mandy Smith, Stephen endured the wrath of his father by becoming involved with, and later marrying, Smith's 46-year-old mother Patsy. This subsequently ensured he was not on the list for the bassist's 1993 marriage to Suzanne Accosta.
Like father? In many important ways, no. In fact, you might say they're a classic example of the generation gap.
5. Seraphina Watts
Who? The daughter of Charlie Watts and his wife of nearly 40 years, Shirley. Born 1968.
Why rock? Seraphina came to exemplify some of the problems that can occur if you're the offspring of a tax-exiled millionaire rock star, albeit part of a stable family. For years accustomed to living abroad, when the jazz-loving Stone returned to Britain, Seraphina attended Millfield School in Somerset, from which she was expelled, for smoking cannabis.
Like father? In terms of marriage, at any rate, not much. She recently divorced her husband, with whom she lived on the idyllic island of Bermuda. The island was, she declared quite brilliantly, "boring".
4. Theodora And Alexandra Richards
Who? The next generation of Keith's daughters, born to King Unhealth and new partner, the 1980s model Patti Hansen. Slightly unfairly put together as a double act, they're 17 and 18.
Why rock? The distance between high fashion and rock music has narrowed a lot. The Rolling Stones have a fashion merchandise label Fashion And Licks, as designed by Agent Provocateur. Now the fashion industry is closing the gap from the other direction - the protegees of agent Bryan Bantry, Theodora and Alexandra have modelled for New York label Chanpaul and in a Tommy Hilfiger campaign.
Like father? Like mother. Riff doesn't moisturise.
3. Jade Jagger
Who? The child of Mick and his first wife, Bianca. Born 1972.
Why rock? She's done everything you need to do to rock in the grand Stones manner, except play an instrument. Expelled from school. Outraged Dad. Paparazzi photographs. Kiss and tell stories (Neptunes producer Pharrell Williams professed himself "unable to keep up with her"). Most impressively, for the last three years there have been noise complaints against her at her London flat after rowdy Christmas parties. If she gets too many more warnings, she risks arrest.
Like father? Never mind mum or dad. If she doesn't watch her step she'll be more like Winona Ryder.
2. Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger
Who? First born to Mick and Jerry Hall, now 18.
Why rock? There have been modelling assignments, of course (though dad thinks them "silly"), but Elizabeth rocks on regardless. She thinks her dad's clothes are an embarrassment, is the face of Lancôme's LCM range, has sung back-up vocals on Mick's last album. Most impressive, though, is that she had a funny appearance in hipster movie Igby Goes Down. In interviews she appears poised and ever so slightly snippy - a classic Jagger characteristic.
Like father? Yes. Elizabeth is the embodiment of Jagger's most classy aspirations.
1. Lucas Maurice Morad Jagger
Who? Lucas is the four-year-old child of Jagger and Brazilian model Luciana Morad.
Why rock? Although he's still of tender years, Esquire magazine predicts a memoir by age 20. He was born to a beautiful mother, and he has cost Mick Jagger a large, undisclosed sum of money, 1 twice. Once in a paternity suit, and then again - apparently Jerry Hall could not sanction the idea that Jagger's affair with Morad had just been a fling, and it is held to have been the final straw for the couple. A handsome payout followed the split.
Like father? Certainly not - apparently, he behaves like a small child.
Bubbling under
The Stones kids who did not quite make the top 10
1. Leah Wood
Ron's daughter is an elfin beauty, for sure. But a couple of modelling jobs and being in a Westlife video do not yet a legend of rock make.
2. Jesse Wood
Has helped out on Dad's solo album, but Jesse is concentrating more on being a dad... Kate Moss? Of course he's gone out with Kate Moss.
3. Georgia Jagger
Only 10, but showing great promise already - like Elizabeth, she sang back-up vocals on the track Brand New Set Of Rules for Mick's last album.
4. James Jagger
Seventeen-year-old James recently held a party where he put speakers on the roof of his parents' home, and is reportedly dating Alexandra Richards.
5. Gabriel Jagger
Almost made it on stage with his dad once, apparently, but got a bit scared and didn't make it. Maybe next time.
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