POP/ROCK - April 22, 1988

Mick Jagger used the same lyric style in other hit songs before “Just Another Night,” a music expert testified Thursday in a White Plains, N.Y., court battle between a reggae musician and the Rolling Stones’ lead singer. Jagger returned to federal court to defend his song “Just Another Night,” against charges of copyright infringement. Jamaican-born Patrick Alley says the song copied an earlier composition he recorded. But a music expert for the defense testified that the 43-year-old rock star’s version follows a lyric style Jagger has used frequently in his hit songs. Daniel Ricigliano, chairman of the theory department at the Manhattan School of Music, referred to other Jagger hits, recorded by the Rolling Stones, including “Brown Sugar,” “Beast of Burden” and “Heart of Stone.”