Their Satanic Majesties Request

Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in December 1967 by Decca Records in the UK and by London Records in the United States. It was the first Rolling Stones album released in identical versions in both countries. The title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires" text that appeared inside a British passport. The band experimented with a psychedelic sound, incorporating unconventional elements such as Mellotron, sound effects, string arrangements, and African rhythms. Its lyrics draw on dreamlike imagery and science-fiction themes, with subjects including the loss of individual identity in a futuristic society, space travel, distance, loneliness, and alienation. The band members produced the album themselves as their manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham had departed. The prolonged recording process was marked by drug use, court appearances, and jail terms by members of the band. The original LP cover features a lenticular image by the photographer Michael Cooper. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_S...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)