Mildly transgressive (because mildly transgender), the cover is more cheap, camp, pop fun than anything else. Admit it, though, we all wanted to see what the boys (esp. Mick) looked like in drag.
The fun continues on the back cover, which appears to be something straight out of a Fredericks of Hollywood catalogue.
The artist behind all of this fun was Peter Corriston, who we’ve seen here before.
He’s got over 120 album cover credits to his name. I shared my faves in that previous post, but here are a few more I like:
gave it some garish colors, did a die cut number on the faces, then lined up the cuts with pix of the band and some female celebs on the inner sleeve:
Interestingly, there were a ton of legal issues, with Valmor, Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, and the estates of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland suing for using their images without permission. This resulted in numerous variants, even for the inner sleeve:
Some Girls was the band’s best album in quite awhile. Hits include “Miss You” and “Beast of Burden.” It’s actually the best-selling Stones album of all time in the US.
You all know what the boys look like. Here's the most unusual pic of them I could find out there:
I'd show a couple more fave album covers, but we've still got two to go in the top 20!
Definitely a couple of homages out there for this one:
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