But early album pressings soon became collectors’ items due to threatened legal action from these famous women and/or their estates. The original die-cut cover, created by Peter Corriston, featured a parody of a vintage wig advertisement, depicting the bewigged Stones in drag alongside Hubert Kretzschmar illustrations of iconic female celebrities like Farrah Fawcett, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, and Judy Garland. No Some Girls retrospective would be complete, obviously, without a look at the album’s famous artwork. We were like the jack-of-all-trades here.” Interestingly, however, many of the unreleased tracks on 2011’s Some Girls boxed set traffic not in disco or punk but in the sort of bluesy, boozy country-stomp of the famous Some Girls cut “Faraway Eyes.” There’s the bar-band rocker “Claudine” (“That one should have been on the original album it’s a damn good song,” said Richards), the twangy ballad “No Spare Parts,” and covers of country classics like Hank Williams’s “You Win Again,” Freddy Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie,” and the Waylon Jennings/Conway Twitty standard “We Had It All” (the latter features “Before They Make Me Run”-worthy lead vocals by Richards.) Quipped Jagger of the album’s blurred genre lines: “We were doing diametrically opposed kinds of music at the time: dance music on one hand, country on the other. For some people, it was a very big hit, but not everyone liked it.” And that sort of beat was the thing that was going around at the time. You don’t really play the grooves of yesteryear when you make records you play the grooves of now. And that particular groove was the groove of the moment. So, obviously, I’d be very interested in making dance music. You know, I like dancing, so as far as I’m concerned, all sorts of fast songs for me were all made to dance to.

To me, I wasn’t brought up on rock music so much as blues and soul music, and a lot of that music was dance music. Now you look back and think, ‘How stupid was that?’ There were a lot of people that were very narrow-minded about it. “It’s a bit like Bob Dylan going electric, isn’t it? It’s ridiculous to even think that people made a fuss about it. “Yeah, I mean, now it’s ridiculous to even think about,” Jagger marveled. Not everyone’s gonna get it the first time.” But that’s their privilege it’s cool with me. 'Of course, there are some who are gonna think this or that. “Purists of any kind really piss me off,' Richards remarked in his dry and delectable drawl. Rock purists at the time were horrified that the Stones had sold out and “gone disco” - a laughable non-scandal now, considering how many rock acts of this current century, from Måneskin and Royal Blood to Muse to the Killers, or pretty much any band that’s ever released a remix, went on draw from dance music. No doubt hanging around in bars and clubs a lot had something to do with it.” “At the time, it wasn’t necessarily ‘disco music’ to us it was just another rhythm-and-blues beat. And we just decided to do a disco song ,” Richards added. “And the disco thing, I don’t know, that was just what was going on in clubs, and you sort of picked up a beat. I think in some ways this album reflects some of that time, and I think that’s what makes it an interesting album.” So, you had a lot of genres, and these were cross-pollinating everything. The early dance music was quite innovative in lots of ways. You had sort of a return to very basic rock music - you know, the Sex Pistols and all that - but you also had the beginning of hip-hop, the beginning of rap, and you had lots and lots of kinds of dance music, very different kinds of dance music. “This was a very interesting time in music in New York, where I was living a lot at the time. “I think it was pretty conscious of living in the day,” Richards’s Glimmer Twins counterpart, frontman Mick Jagger, mused. It was about energy, and it was a kick up our ass.” But otherwise, it was a matter of attitude more than anything else. The only trouble with the punks is none of them could really play! I loved the attitude, y’know, but where’s the music? And that was their letdown. “The energy of the punk thing affected Some Girls in many ways.

“Without a doubt, the punks certainly made us sort of look around and say, ‘Oh my God, we’ve been around for 10 years already!'” Stones guitarist Keith Richards told Yahoo Entertainment at the time of the album’s 2011 deluxe reissue.

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