Some girls
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| The Rolling Stones studio album | ||||
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Publication |
16./17. June 1978 |
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| Label (s) | Rolling Stones Records | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
40:45 |
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| occupation | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman | |||
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Studio (s) |
October 10-21 December 1977 & January 5th – 2nd March 1978, Pathé Marconi Studios ( Paris ) |
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Some Girls is the fourteenth in the UK released studio album of the Rolling Stones , produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , under the pseudonym The Glimmer Twins .
The album, released on June 16, 1978 in Great Britain and June 17, 1978 in the USA , was to be the greatest success for the band since Exile on Main Street . By integrating the popular styles of punk and funk , which were popular at the time and which were rather untypical for the Rolling Stones , the group was musically up to date again; The album was recorded accordingly by the listeners: Some Girls reached number 1 in the USA and stayed in the charts for 32 weeks. The highest position in the UK was # 2.
The recordings took place from October 10, 1977 to March 2, 1978 in the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris. The album is considered the comeback of Keith Richards, who was badly hit by drugs. For the first time since 1973 he appeared again as a lead singer: Before They Make Me Run . The rhythm guitars dominate in Lies , Respectable and Shattered . With Just My Imagination , a classic from the Temptations (like My Girl in the 1960s) was recorded again.
The title song Some Girls is possibly a reckoning of Jagger with his (still) wife Bianca as well as with his numerous affairs. The Rolling Stones got into trouble in the USA because of some text passages of the song. For example, black civil rights activists were outraged by Jaggers' sung line of text "Black girls just wanna get fucked all night" (translated: "Black girls just want to be fucked all night").
The cover design was also provocative at first: it was designed by the American graphic artist Peter Corriston. Corriston used without permission a catalog page for Afro wigs Chicago cosmetics company as a template Valmor Products Co . Instead of the Afro-American faces, Corriston added the faces of the Rolling Stones to the Afro wigs on the catalog page, but originally also from some other well-known personalities, such as Raquel Welch and Lucille Ball , the latter one of the richest women in America, which is why the record company was afraid of it after a lawsuit decided at short notice to withdraw the original design and replace it with a new one only with the heads of the Stones. By moving the inner record sleeve, you could assign different wigs to the different faces, which were depicted on the outer record sleeve.
The songs were all composed by Jagger and Richards, with the exception of those noted otherwise. Involved guest musicians were Ian McLagan ( The Faces ) - piano and organ, Sugar Blue - harmonica and Mel Collins - saxophone.
Track list
- Miss You (4.48)
- When the Whip Comes Down (4.20)
- Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) (4.38) ( Whitfield , Strong ; first recorded by the Temptations )
- Some Girls (4.36)
- Read (3.11)
- Far Away Eyes (4.24)
- Respectable (3.06)
- Before They Make Me Run (3.25)
- Beast of Burden (4.25)
- Shattered (3.47)
literature
- Bill Wyman: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story. Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg, 2002 ISBN 3-8310-0391-2 , pp. 448-449