Studio Album · No. 10
Their Satanic Majesties Request Songwriting Credits by The Rolling Stones
Produced by The Rolling Stones · Engineered by Glyn Johns, Eddie Kramer
Holds writing credit on 10 of 10 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 10 / 10 documented
Scored across the 10 tracks with documented writers, by whether The Rolling Stones carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 10 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
All songs are Jagger/Richards originals (with 'In Another Land' credited to Bill Wyman), and the album was the band's first self-produced record after Andrew Loog Oldham departed. Freed from an outside producer, the Stones pushed into psychedelia with Mellotron, theremin, and dense sound collages, a clear response to the studio experimentation of the era. 'She's a Rainbow' and '2000 Light Years from Home' show the two poles of the writing here, ornate baroque pop against spacey, effects-heavy rock. The self-production and the psychedelic detour are widely viewed as a one-off experiment the band soon stepped back from.
Released December 8, 1967, Their Satanic Majesties Request was the band's psychedelic answer to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Self-produced, it represented a stylistic detour into trippy, kaleidoscopic rock. It has been viewed as the band's weakest early album; they returned to blues-based rock immediately afterward. Nine of ten tracks are Jagger-Richards; 'In Another Land' is the sole Wyman composition.