The Rolling Stones ‎– Some Girls

Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ‎– MFSL 1-087

Series: Original Master Recording –

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered

Country: US Disc’s Pressed In Japan

Released: Mar 1983

Genre: Rock

Style: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll, Classic Rock

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Notes Version with censored inner sleeve. Original version with full-face inner sleeve at The Rolling Stones Some Girls

Audiophile Pressing (Source: the Original Stereo Master Tape).
Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Original MasteringWorks™.
Specially Plated and Pressed on High Definition Super Vinyl by Victor Company of Japan Ltd.
Mastered with the Ortofon Cutting System.
Includes Original Special Static Free-Dust Inner Sleeve, Original Special Heavy Duty Protective Packaging and certificate of limited warranty.
Manufactured and distributed by MFSL, Inc., under license from Atlantic Recording Corporation, A Warner Communications Company.
℗© 1978 Promotone B.V. All Rights Reserved

Album cover die-cut to allow the various faces of female celebrities (and the Stones themselves) to peek through from the inner sleeve. Under threat of legal action from Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe, the original design was almost immediately withdrawn.

This revised version does not feature any celebrity faces, replacing them shoddily with garish colors and the phrase PARDON OUR APPEARANCE - COVER UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION.

As would be expected, the line “Black girls just wanna get fu@ked all night” caused activist groups to howl in protest and Atlantic Records, the band’s label at the time, to fight unsuccessfully to have the song removed.

‘Some Girls’ Didn’t Like Being On A Rolling Stones Cover

 ‘Some Girls’ was the 14th British and 16th American studio album for the Rolling Stones. It was released in 1978 and was the first album that included guitarist Ronnie Wood as a full-time member of the band.

  This release soared through the charts topping the Billboard 200 as the Number One album. It went on to become the Stone’s best-selling record in the US and earned the band a Grammy nomination in the Album of the Year category. ‘Some Girls’ had a handful of singles come from it that became chart staples in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.The cover art was a whole different matter. It involved an elaborate die-cut design. An old copy of a Valmor Products Corporation print ad was used with faces of the Rolling Stones and various celebrities inserted. The idea was conceived and designed by Peter Corriston with illustrations from Hubert Kretzschmar. The colours on the sleeves had several variations, depending on the market the album was sold in.

  Then there was a controversy – the cover art became the source of legal action when some of the celebrities whose faces were used threatened to sue the Stones’ for using likenesses without permission. The list of angry celebrities included Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (on behalf of her late mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch and the estate of Marilyn Monroe.It is also interesting to note that although the cover art of ‘Some Girls’ did ruffle the features of some fairly big-name celebrities; the designer did not get penalized by the Stones. Instead, Corriston was commissioned with the task of designing the next three album covers for the band.

  Oh, and Rolling Stone lead singer Mick Jagger apologized to Minnelli one night at a party the two attended at the New York discotheque Studio 54.

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