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Some Girls

Record Sleeve
1978 (produced)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cardboard inner-sleeve for a 12 inch long-playing record of The Rolling Stones 'Some Girls'. The design incorporates photographs of The Rolling Stones and various celebrities. The outer-sleeve design (E.1263-1988) incorporates reproductions of pictorial advertisements for American wigs - the faces of those modelling the wigs have been removed by die-cutting, so as to reveal portraits of the band on the inner-sleeve in a humorous fashion.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSome Girls (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithography printing on cardboard
Brief description
Inner-sleeve for a 12 inch long-playing record of The Rolling Stones 'Some Girls'. Offset colour lithograph print on cardboard. Design by Peter Corriston. Printed by Garrod and Lofthouse Ltd.. Published by EMI Publishing Ltd. Great Britain. 1978.
Physical description
Cardboard inner-sleeve for a 12 inch long-playing record of The Rolling Stones 'Some Girls'. The design incorporates photographs of The Rolling Stones and various celebrities. The outer-sleeve design (E.1263-1988) incorporates reproductions of pictorial advertisements for American wigs - the faces of those modelling the wigs have been removed by die-cutting, so as to reveal portraits of the band on the inner-sleeve in a humorous fashion.
Dimensions
  • Approx height: 12in
  • Approx width: 12in
Production typeMass produced
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
E.1264-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
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