Some Girls - Remastered

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote this song about the women in their lives, mostly groupies. Richards said they called the song "Some Girls" because they could never remember their names.

The line "Black girls just want to get f--ked all night" caused an uproar. American civil rights leader Jessie Jackson used his Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) group to call for a boycott of the album. Jackson had been railing against "sex rock" songs since 1976, when he started pushing record companies to be more "responsible." Most industry executives refused to meet with him, but Ahmet Ertegun, head of the Rolling Stones' label Atlantic Records, did. He tried to get some kind of redress, but Ertegun insisted he had no creative control over the band, and there were no plans to alter or remove the song. "Mick assured me that it was a parody of the type of people who hold these attitudes," Ertegun explained in Rolling Stone. "Mick has great respect for blacks." Jackson had to settle for a halfhearted apology. The band issued a statement saying: "It never occurred to us that our parody of certain stereotypical attitudes would be taken seriously by anyone who heard the entire lyric of the song in question. No insult was intended, and if any was taken, we sincerely apologize." The offensive line was just something Jagger ad-libbed, but he wasn't going to change it.

This wasn't the first Stones song that outraged feminists and other activist groups. "Brown Sugar" and "Under My Thumb" were also considered degrading to women. At the time, Jagger said, "If you can't take a joke, it's too f--king bad." He later softened his stance, and began performing the song with these lyrics removed: White girls they're pretty funny Sometimes they drive me mad Black girls just wanna get f--ked all night I just don't have that much jam