{"id":2489694,"date":"2026-07-06T03:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2489694"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:28:05","slug":"on-this-day-in-1978-the-manufacturing-of-this-famous-rock-album-is-halted-due-to-celebrities-featured-on-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/on-this-day-in-1978-the-manufacturing-of-this-famous-rock-album-is-halted-due-to-celebrities-featured-on-the-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 1978, the Manufacturing of This Famous Rock Album Is Halted Due to Celebrities Featured on the Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Go into your record collection and check your vinyl copy of Some Girls \u2013 you just might be holding a rare version with discontinued cover art.<\/p>\n

On this day (July 5) in 1978, the manufacturing of Some Girls by The Rolling Stones was halted at EMI\u2019s pressing plant after celebrities featured in mock advertisements on the album sleeve \u2013 including Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch<\/a>, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe<\/a> \u2013 threatened legal action.<\/p>\n

When the band released Some Girls on June 9, 1978, no one expected the cover to cause more controversy than the music<\/a>. The sleeve, designed by Peter Corriston and illustrated by Hubert Kretzschmar, featured an elaborate die-cut design inserting the faces of the Rolling Stones alongside famous female celebrities into a vintage advertisement. Visually striking? Yes. But there was one small problem \u2013 nobody had asked permission. The stars were furious, many feeling the album made a mockery of their appearance.<\/p>\n

The album was quickly reissued with a redesigned cover removing all the celebrities\u00a0 (whether they had complained or not), replacing them with punk-style garish colors and the phrase \u201cPardon our appearance, cover under reconstruction.\u201d (*Mick Jagger<\/a> later ran into Liza Minnelli at Studio 54 and personally apologized.) Notably, the only celebrity whose face was not removed was former Beatle George Harrison. Valmor Products also took legal action and received an undisclosed cash award for unauthorized use of their ad design.<\/p>\n

Despite the drama, Some Girls became one of the Stones\u2019 greatest triumphs.\u00a0 It was not merely a record but a cultural artifact: a vivid document of its time that redefined rock music with its infusion of disco and punk sounds. It hit number one on the US Billboard 200 and earned The Stones their only Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Turns out the band was prophetic \u2013 *The title track does include the line \u201cSome Girls take my money\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

A little controversy never hurt anyone. Except maybe their legal bills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source parade.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go into your record collection and check your vinyl copy of Some Girls \u2013 you just might be holding a rare version with discontinued cover art. On this day (July 5) in 1978, the manufacturing of Some Girls by The Rolling Stones was halted at EMI\u2019s pressing plant after celebrities featured in mock advertisements on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2489695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22847,22092,21741,23914,21800,21738,490211,490210,307958],"class_list":["post-2489694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-album","tag-art","tag-entertainment","tag-lawsuit","tag-music","tag-news","tag-on-this-day-in-history","tag-some-girls","tag-the-rolling-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/On-This-Day-in-1978-the-Manufacturing-of-This-Famous.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489696,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489694\/revisions\/2489696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2489695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}