Their Satanic Majesties Request
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Publication |
December 8, 1967 (UK), |
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Decca Records (UK), London Records (USA) |
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
44:06 |
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| occupation | Mick Jagger , Keith Richards , Charlie Watts , Brian Jones , Bill Wyman | |||
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The Rolling Stones |
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Studio (s) |
February 9 to October 23, 1967, |
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Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth in the UK and the eighth studio album by the Rolling Stones released in the US . It was released on December 8, 1967 in England and a day later in the USA. The recordings for the album in the Olympic Studios in London lasted from February to October 1967, interrupted again and again by court hearings for illicit drug possession as well as brief stays in prison by the band members.
The Stones hardly performed live at all at that time. In April 1967 the band had finished a three-week European tour, and it was not until November 1969 that the Stones went on a two-month US tour (published on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! ).
History of the album
The first album produced by the Rolling Stones themselves reached number 3 in the English charts, number 2 in the USA and number 4 in Germany. It was also the first release of the Rolling Stones, which appeared in both England and the USA with an identical track list. Their previous producer Andrew Loog Oldham had left the band while they were being recorded.
Their Satanic Majesties Request was to form a conceptual and sound alternative to the psychedelic concept album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of the Beatles : “A fantastic pop universe between the Ganges and the galaxy, haunted by Stravinsky , Bach and Stockhausen , where it chirps and bubbles electronically and in which the satanic majesties sing LSD pious chorales ” . Very soon, however, critical voices were also raised. The album is an attempt to benefit from a short-lived musical trend and an ingratiation to the Beatles. Even today, the album is rated very differently, and the Stones have never released a comparable work.
Brian Jones was instrumental in a Rolling Stones album one last time. As on the previous albums, he used numerous instruments such as the mellotron , saxophone and harp. However, he was the one who suffered the most from the impending prison sentences. In October 1967, he was sentenced to twelve months in prison for drug possession, among other things - a guilty verdict that was suspended on probation shortly afterwards in the face of a psychiatric report describing Jones as an "extremely frightened young man with suicidal tendencies."
"Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires ..." - this formula in the British passport inspired the Stones to the title of their record.
No single was released from the album in England, but She's A Rainbow (B-side 2000 Light Years From Home ) was released in the USA on December 23, 1967 , but only reached number 25 in the charts. In Another Land , the first composition by Bill Wyman released on a Rolling Stones album, was released as a single on December 2, 1967 in the USA under the name of Bill Wyman. Number 85 in the US charts, however, meant a commercial failure.
The Rolling Stones only played two songs on the album live: She's A Rainbow in 1997/1998 on the Bridges-to-Babylon tour and 2000 Light Years From Home in 1989/1990 on the Steel Wheels / Urban Jungle tour.
The differences in mono / stereo releases are also interesting. The American MONO-LP contains a so-called “fold-down” mix in which the two stereo tracks were simply mixed together, while the British MONO-LP produced a separate mono mix from the master tapes. The most striking difference is the ringing of the bell before The Lantern - on the British version you can hear one more chime than on any other release worldwide.
With the release of the single Jumpin 'Jack Flash in May 1968, the band found their style back to their beginnings and to their own version of rhythm-and-blues- influenced hard rock.
Album cover
The first press of Their Satanic Majesties Request was delivered with a 3D cover showing a picture by British photographer Michael Cooper , who had already photographed the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band cover. The big innovation was the use of a lenticular print to create a lenticular image that contains two images of the band and thereby creates a sense of depth.
The cover could only be produced in a New York studio and reportedly cost a dollar a piece. Only 500 of these acrylic acid-coated 3D covers are said to have been produced. Due to the high production costs, the 3D photo was soon reduced in size and surrounded by a blue and white decorative frame. For the German first release in January 1968, the vinyl was pressed in Germany, but the 3D cover was imported from England.
The 3D image was later replaced by a simple photo. In the 1980s, the album was re-released as a limited edition with the lenticular cover. The original master materials were then destroyed so the cover can never be reproduced again.
Reception and influences
The American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre released the album "Their Satanic Majesties Second Request" in 1996, the title of which refers to the original Rolling Stones.
In 2009 the band released Portugal. The Man two albums at the same time, whose names are reminiscent of Their Satanic Majesties Request : In addition to the electrically arranged The Satanic Satanist, there is the acoustically arranged counterpart called The Majestic Majesty.
Track list
Another Land was written by Bill Wyman, all other plays by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
A side
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Sing This All Together - 3:46
The backing vocals are John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard. -
Citadel - 2:50
with Brian Jones on Mellotron , Nicky Hopkins on keyboards and harpsichord . -
In Another Land - 3:15
Includes a shot of Bill Wyman snoring. -
2000 Man - 3:07
Brian Jones on the electronic organ . -
Sing This All Together (See What Happens) - 8:33
Includes a hidden track , a short instrumental played by Bill Wyman called Cosmic Christmas ; Played faster you can hear the song: We Wish You a Merry Xmas .
B side
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She's a Rainbow - 4:35
string instruments arranged by John Paul Jones ; Recurring instrumental solo and repetitions in the text -
The Lantern - 4:23
Nicky Hopkins on keyboard and mellotron. -
Gomper - 5:08 am
Brian Jones at the electric dulcimer . -
2000 Light Years from Home - 4:45
Brian Jones on the Mellotron, Bill Wyman on the synthesizer . -
On With the Show - 3:39
Brian Jones on mellotron and harp .
Texts / translations / notes
- The Rolling Stones. Songbook. 155 songs [1963–1977] with sheet music. German by Teja Schwaner, Jörg Fauser and Carl Weissner . With 75 alternative translations by Helmut Salzinger . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 160-179, 575-584 and 937 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry Graves / Siegfried Schmidt-Joos / Bernward Halbscheffel: Das neue Rock-Lexikon Volume 2 . Rowohlt Taschenbuch (October 1998), p. 787, ISBN 978-3499163524
- ↑ a b Steve Apple Ford: The Rolling Stones, Rip This Joint. The story for each song ("The Rolling Stones - it's only Rock 'n' Roll") . Rockbuch-Verlag, Schlüchtern 2002, p. 56. ISBN 3-927638-11-0
- ↑ Bill Wyman with Richard Havers: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story . Dorling Kindersley (October 2002), p. 293. ISBN 978-3831003914 .
- ↑ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1159250/their-satanic-majesties-request-artwork-cooper-michael/
- ↑ Chris Murray: The Rolling Stones. 40 × 20 , p. 58. ISBN 978-3898801720
- ^ According to The Rolling Stones - The Book. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood. 112. ISBN 978-3550075735
- ↑ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1159250/their-satanic-majesties-request-artwork-cooper-michael/