Songs Not Mentioned On Album Track Listings - The Rolling Stones – Cosmic Christmas – Their Satanic Majesties Request

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The album was a deliberate parody of The Beatles album Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, also issued in 1967, and as The Beatles used jokey Christmas references the Stones chucked in this short and very weird spin on We Wish You A Merry Christmas featuring Bill Wyman playing it on a Theremin, possibly inspired by the Star Trek TV theme. Unusually the unlisted song is not at the end of the album but at the end of side one of the vinyl LP putting it in the midst of CD tracks too. The piece had no official title and Cosmic Christmas was chosen for it by critics and fans as that was the working title for the album itself implying that the piece was more central to the concept of the lets experiment, take risks and be different to everything we have done so far with our careers concept. The album originally sold poorly though it has now justifiably come to be regarded now as a true classic. The tune on Youtube in traditional and speeded up versions Arthur Chappell