It’s no shock that the Rolling Stones may have dabbled in drugs during their time, but Mick Jagger claims this one album was addled by acid. The now 81-year-old rocker reflected on their sixth studio album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, admitting: ‘The whole thing, we were on acid.’ He continued: ‘We were on acid doing the cover picture.
I always remember doing that. It was like being at school , you know, sticking on the bits of coloured paper and things. It was really silly.
But we enjoyed it.’ While Mick admitted he was probably taking ‘too many drugs’ by that point, he reflected on the album: ‘Well, it’s not very good. ‘It had interesting things on it, but I don’t think any of the songs are very good.
It’s a bit like Between the Buttons. It’s a sound experience, really, rather than a song experience.’ The frontman also admitted they went a bit psychedelic rogue on this instalment to ‘p**s off’ their manager and producer Andrew ‘Loog’ Oldham ‘because he was such a pain in the neck’.
Andrew parted ways with the band during the recording of this album. The album came in a particularly tumultuous time for the Gimmie Shelter rockers, as also in 1967 both Jagger and Keith Richards were arrested at the latter’s Sussex home for drug possession. The cover has often been directly compared to – and accused of being a mockery of – The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, which was releas.
