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Paint It Comma Black?

200px-paintitblack.jpgI see a typo and I want it grammatically correct,
No commas anymore I want them to turn black…

Troeltsch & Lorelei point out that the official title to Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones contains a comma in the original release, as in “Paint It, Black.” Keith Richards apparently feels the comma was mistakenly added by a secretary at Decca Records, while alternate theories consider the title to be racist. The comma has appeared intermittently on track listings ever since (according to a cursory search of Amazon).

Who, knew?



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7 Responses:

  1. Lorelei Says:

    I’m pleased that Richards has actually thought about it. I thought it was weird for sons of the British middle class to have trouble with punctuation.

    Also, I just noticed you’ve people’s names into tags. It seemed much less threatening when the tag was crazymonk.

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  2. DoorFrame Says:

    I’ll take you out of the tags if you’d like. Most people don’t use real sounding names, so I didn’t really see it as an issue.

    Paint It.

    Black.

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  3. Lorelei Says:

    No, big, deal — it’s not like “Lorelei” is really anyone’s name. ;}

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  4. jbg. Says:

    i want my tag to be bigger! post more stuff about me!!

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  5. DoorFrame Says:

    Do more interesting stuff.

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  6. Lorelei Says:

    Do something REMARKABLE.

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  7. jbg. Says:

    no!

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