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Some Girls (1978)

Where the lyrics of Some Girls take you, and where it was really made.

Recorded in Paris while Keith Richards faced legal trouble, Some Girls is generally credited to Mick Jagger as its principal creative force.

Key places

Where Some Girls was recorded in Paris (1978)

Recording site Pathé Marconi Studios — The album was recorded in sessions held from October 1977 to February 1978 at Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris. The band worked there with engineer Chris Kimsey during these sessions. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Some Girls: 14th studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones
• Released 9 June 1978 by Rolling Stones Records
• Produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (credited as the Glimmer Twins); Chris Kimsey engineered the recording
• Jagger is generally regarded as the principal creative force behind the album
• First album with Ronnie Wood as a full-time member

Background

• By 1976 the band's popularity was declining as disco and newer rock bands dominated the charts
• Punk rock was a rising force in the UK
• Richards faced legal trouble in 1977 after being arrested for possession of heroin
• The band had not produced a critically acclaimed album since 1972's Exile on Main St.

Recording

• Sessions held from October 1977 to February 1978 at Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris
• The core band of Jagger, Richards, Wood, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman played most of the album with few guest musicians
• Sugar Blue contributed harmonica to several songs, including 'Miss You' and the title track
• About 50 new songs were recorded, and several reappeared in altered forms on Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You

Cover

• Design by Peter Corriston, illustrations by Hubert Kretzschmar
• The original cover placed the band's faces alongside select female celebrities and drew legal complaints
• The album was quickly reissued with a redesigned cover that removed all the celebrities

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in London in 1962 as an English rock band; their first stable line-up was Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts.
• Jones named the band after a Muddy Waters song; they were rooted in blues and rock and roll.
• Manager Andrew Loog Oldham encouraged them to write their own songs, and the Jagger–Richards partnership became their main creative force.

Members

• Current: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood (joined 1975).
• Former: Brian Jones (died 1969), Mick Taylor (1969–1974), Bill Wyman (1962–1993), Charlie Watts (1963–2021, died 2021).
• Steve Jordan became their drummer after Watts' death.

Career

• Hits included "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965), "Paint It Black" (1966) and "Start Me Up" (1981).
• Their 1969 Hyde Park show and Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. are key points of their career.
• Formed Rolling Stones Records in 1970, whose tongue-and-lips logo became their band logo.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989; the band has sold more than 250 million albums.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The Pittsburgh Press's Pete Bishop: the best album the band had done in years
• Los Angeles Times's Robert Hilburn: a splendid return to form
• The Village Voice's Robert Christgau: the band's best album since Exile on Main St.
• Rolling Stone's Paul Nelson: did not think it deserved to be mentioned in the same breath as Exile on Main St.
• NME's Charles Shaar Murray: more a Jagger solo record than a proper Rolling Stones record, while praising the production and 'Shattered'

Reappraisal

• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine: a tough, focused, and exciting record
• Ultimate Classic Rock's Jeff Giles: credited the album with reinvigorating the band's sound while keeping its own identity

Records

• UK Albums Chart: number 2, kept off the top spot by the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
• US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart: number 1
• Became the band's top-selling album in the United States, certified by the RIAA for six million copies by 2000
• The only Rolling Stones album nominated for a Grammy Award in the Album of the Year category

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The first printing of the cover was censored because the band could not get permission to use the actresses' images.
• Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli, Raquel Welch and the Marilyn Monroe estate threatened to sue over the use of their likenesses.
• New York station WBLS refused to play 'Miss You', citing the album's offensive racial attitudes.
• Jagger later apologised to Minnelli at a party at Studio 54.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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