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Fatboy Slim Finally Releases 'Satisfaction Skank' After Rolling Stones Grant Sample Clearance

The band ended decades of refusals by supplying original Satisfaction stems for a complete rebuild.

Overview

  • Norman Cook says Mick Jagger personally called to say he liked the mix before permission was granted.
  • Original stems for '(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction' were delivered in an armoured van, enabling a full rerecording rather than a simple sample lift.
  • The track fuses Fatboy Slim’s 1999 hit 'The Rockafeller Skank' with the Stones’ 1965 classic, long known as a bootleg shared on Napster and pressed to club vinyl.
  • A primary video by Tom Furse uses Michael Spencer Jones’s Rolling Stones photo archive enhanced with AI, with a separate visual directed by Elliot Gonzo.
  • The approval echoes the Stones’ 2019 decision involving 'Bitter Sweet Symphony,' marking a rare shift in a sample-clearance stance that had blocked this release for roughly two decades.