Fatboy Slim’s ‘Satisfaction Skank’ receives Rolling Stones approval after 25 years

Fatboy Slim’s ‘Satisfaction Skank’ has been officially released, following approval from The Rolling Stones 25 years after its creation, via Southern Fried Records. 

Norman Cook’s 2000 mashup of The Stones’ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ with his own ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ was created after the Brighton DJ grew tired of playing the original track. Despite its popularity on file-sharing sites during the early 2000s, The Stones repeatedly rejected sample-clearence requests from Cook, but now have approved the track while supplying Cook with their master tapes to produce a higher quality mix. 

The track’s approval signifies another step in The Stones relaxing their stance on sampling, after previously returning the rights of ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ to Richard Ashcroft in 2019. 

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