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Their Satanic Majesties Request
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request - 1967 Decca Album cover.jpg
Studio album by The Rolling Stones
Released 8 December 1967
Recorded 9 February – 23 October 1967
Studio Olympic Studios-Studio A, London
Genre
Length 44:06
Language English
Label
Producer The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones chronology
Between the Buttons
(1967)Between the Buttons1967
Their Satanic Majesties Request
(1967)
Beggars Banquet
(1968)Beggars Banquet1968
Singles from Their Satanic Majesties Request
  1. "In Another Land"/"The Lantern"
    Released: 2 December 1967
  2. "She's a Rainbow"/"2000 Light Years from Home"
    Released: 23 December 1967
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars stereo version
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars mono version
The Great Rock Discography 5/10
MusicHound 2/5
NME 8/10
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars
The Village Voice B+

Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth British and eighth American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released in December 1967 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. Recording sessions saw the band experimenting widely with a psychedelic sound in the studio, incorporating unconventional instruments, sound effects, string arrangements, and African rhythms. The album's title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires ..." text that appears inside a British passport. It is the first Stones album to feature the same track listings in both its UK and US versions.

Upon its release, Satanic Majesties "drew mixed reviews from the critics as well as some mixed reactions within the group itself". The album was criticised for being derivative of the contemporaneous work of the Beatles, particularly their June 1967 release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with the similarities extending to the LP's lenticular cover. In subsequent decades, it has gradually risen in critical reputation. Following the album's release, the Rolling Stones abandoned their psychedelic style for a stripped-down return to their roots in blues music.

Begun just after Between the Buttons had been released on 20 January 1967, the recording of Their Satanic Majesties Request was long and sporadic, broken up by court appearances and jail terms. For the same reasons, the entire band was seldom present in the studio at one time. Further slowing productivity was the presence of the multiple guests that the band members had brought along. One of the more level-headed members of the band during this time, Bill Wyman, wary of psychedelic drugs, wrote the song "In Another Land" to parody the Stones' current goings-on. In his 2002 book Rolling with the Stones, Wyman describes the situations in the studio:


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