{"id":310710,"date":"2025-12-11T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310710\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:02:11","slug":"the-rolling-stones-give-blessing-to-fatboy-slims-satisfaction-sample-after-25-years-fatboy-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310710\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones give blessing to Fatboy Slim\u2019s Satisfaction sample after 25 years | Fatboy Slim"},"content":{"rendered":"

A classic bootleg recording by Fatboy Slim<\/a> which samples the Rolling Stones\u2019 (I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction has finally been released, as the band give it their blessing after 25 years.<\/p>\n

Satisfaction Skank was a familiar track on turn-of-the-century dancefloors, as Fatboy Slim mashed up his own 1999 hit The Rockafeller Skank with the Stones\u2019 1965 classic, hurling Keith Richards\u2019 iconic guitar riff into the \u201cbig beat\u201d sound of the late 90s.<\/p>\n

The track was much shared on Napster and other filesharing services, with bootleggers also pressing it to vinyl for use in nightclubs. But the track was never officially released, after numerous attempts to get the sample cleared were denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a call from Mick Jagger and he said he\u2019d heard it and he liked the mix,\u201d Fatboy Slim, AKA Norman Cook, told the BBC<\/a>. \u201cBut his management was just like, \u2018No, not even negotiable\u2019. We\u2019ve had a pretty flat \u2018no\u2019 for 20 years. I think we asked four times, and I wouldn\u2019t have dared to ask them again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But the Stones eventually relented, allowing Cook to build the track anew from the original parts of Satisfaction: the stems for the track were delivered to him in an armoured van. It will be released with a music video directed by Tom Furse of goth band the Horrors, who used AI to enhance archive photos of the Stones.<\/p>\n

The Stones\u2019 decision to approve the sample has echoes of how, in 2019<\/a>, the band relinquished their rights regarding the Verve\u2019s hit Bitter Sweet Symphony.<\/p>\n

The song used four seconds of an orchestral version of the Stones song The Last Time for its central string motif, which the Stones\u2019 publishing company disputed the use of, and after an out of court settlement the song\u2019s royalties passed to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as part of a shared songwriting credit.<\/p>\n

But after what Ashcroft called \u201ca kind and magnanimous gesture from Mick and Keith\u201d, he was granted all future royalties to the song.<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stones have maintained a relatively low profile following the release of their comeback album Hackney Diamonds in 2023 and a tour in 2024, though guitarist Ronnie Wood said in May that the band were still planning another album.<\/p>\n

Cook, 62, remains highly active, having just hosted his All Back to Minehead weekend festival featuring sets from artists including actor Simon Pegg, and planning three large outdoor concerts on Brighton beach in July 2026. He has also recently published a book, It Ain\u2019t Over \u2019Til the Fatboy Sings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A classic bootleg recording by Fatboy Slim which samples the Rolling Stones\u2019 (I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-310710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}