After 25 years . . .was it really worth the wait?

"The Rolling Stones have given Fatboy Slim the green light to sample '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' 25 years after he created a mashup with his track 'The Rockafeller Skank'.

Shortly after the turn of the millennium, Fatboy Slim sampled the iconic riff and vocals from 1965's '… Satisfaction' and melded it with his 1998 chart hit 'The Rockafeller Skank' after he grew tired of playing the original at shows.

Speaking to BBC News, Fatboy Slim – aka former Housemartins bassist Norman Cook – enthused: "It was my secret weapon. I had this tune that nobody else had, and it was a really good encore."

The track dubbed 'Satisfaction Skank' was widely bootlegged throughout the noughties; however Cook was unable to get sample clearance for an official release.

Cook continued: "I got a call from Mick Jagger and he said he'd heard it and he liked the mix. But his management was just like, 'No, not even negotiable'.

"We've had a pretty flat 'no' for 20 years. I think we asked four times, and I wouldn't have dared to ask them again."

In a change of heart, The Rolling Stones themselves initiated the clearance of the sample earlier this year, and they supplied Cook with the song's original master tapes so he could cook up a higher quality"