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Fact #141631

When:

Short story:

Ahmet Ertegun, President of Atlantic Records, recommends that the controversial Rolling Stones' song Some Girls should be re-edited, to remove racist and sexist lyrics in the song.

Full article:

Ahmet Ertegun (President, Atlantic Records) : Even though I know he (Mick Jagger) didn’t mean it, it is not our wish to demean, insult, or make less of a people without whom there would be no Atlantic Records. Mick is certainly not a racist. He is consciously anti-racist. He owes his whole being to black people and black music.