THE ROLLING STONES – SOME GIRLS LP – Nr MINT A5/B3 UK ORIG

The Rolling Stones – Some Girls
(Rolling Stones Records  1978  CUN39108)
Matrix No’s: A5/B3 – UK Pressing
Original Uncensored Sleeve
“Some Girls” in red on front – yellow/pale blue/pink/light green colours on front

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Die-Cut Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– a little wear along top edge
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for almost six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, heavier-driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up comprised vocalist Mick Jagger, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, guitarist Keith Richards, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their formative years Jones was the primary leader: he assembled the band, named it, and drove their sound and image. After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group’s manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. Jagger and Richards became the primary creative force behind the band, alienating Jones, who developed a drug addiction that interfered with his ability to contribute meaningfully.

Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, also being identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965), “Get Off of My Cloud” (1965) and “Paint It Black” (1966) became international No. 1 hits. Aftermath (1966) – their first entirely original album – is considered the most important of their formative records. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit “Ruby Tuesday”/”Let’s Spend the Night Together” and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. They returned to their roots with such hits as “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968) and “Honky Tonk Women” (1969), and albums such as Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring “Sympathy for the Devil”, and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Gimme Shelter”. Let It Bleed was the first of five consecutive No. 1 albums in the UK.

Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as ‘The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’. Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded “Brown Sugar” and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the US. Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring “Tumbling Dice”, and Goats Head Soup (1973), yielding the hit ballad “Angie”, were also best sellers. Taylor was replaced by Ronnie Wood in 1974. The band continued to release successful albums including their two largest sellers: Some Girls (1978), featuring “Miss You”; and Tattoo You (1981), featuring “Start Me Up”. Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994), a worldwide number one album. Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007 they had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time. From Wyman’s departure in 1993 to Watts’ death in 2021, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones playing bass on tour and on most studio recordings. Their latest album, Blue & Lonesome (2016), became their twelfth UK number-one album.

The Rolling Stones’ estimated record sales of 200 million makes them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The band has won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2019, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones second on their list of the “Greatest Artists of All Time” based on US chart success.

 They are ranked fourth on Rolling Stone‘s list of the Greatest Artists of All Time.

Some Girls is the 14th British and 16th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978 on Rolling Stones Records, catalogue COC 39108. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, and became one of the band’s biggest-selling albums in the United States, and has been certified by the RIAA as having six million copies sold as of 2000. It was a major critical success, with many reviewers calling it a classic return to form, and their best album since 1972’s Exile on Main St.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted. 

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, piano on “Faraway Eyes”; bonus tracks: piano on “Petrol Blues”, electric piano on “No Spare Parts”, harmonica on “When You’re Gone” and “Keep Up Blues”, handclaps on “Tallahasse Lassie”
• Keith Richards – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Before They Make Me Run”, bass guitar on “Some Girls” and “Before They Make Me Run”, piano on “Faraway Eyes”; bonus tracks: lead vocals on “We Had It All”, piano on “No Spare Parts” and “I Love You Too Much”, electric piano on “You Win Again”
• Ronnie Wood – electric, acoustic, pedal steel and slide guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar and bass drum on “Shattered”
• Charlie Watts – drums
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar, synthesizer on “Some Girls”; bonus tracks: marimba on “Don’t Be a Stranger”

Additional personnel

• Sugar Blue – harmonica on “Miss You” and “Some Girls”; bonus tracks: harmonica on “Don’t Be a Stranger” and “We Had It All”
• Ian McLagan – electric piano on “Miss You”, organ on “Just My Imagination”
• Mel Collins – saxophone on “Miss You”
• Simon Kirke – congas on “Shattered”