
As for most countries, the post-sixties era was not very creative at Decca Germany but a fairly number of reissues were made on single to promote LP compilations and a few oddities like the booklet cover of 'Look What You've Done', 'All Sold Out', or the five 'Big Hits 1965-75' reissues from 1987 are worth a look.
The 'Street Fighting Man' 1971 issue or the 'Sympathy For The Devil' picture sleeve from 1974 also stands out of the poor generic titled cover artworks from the
'Oldies but Goldies' series.
The rarest single from this period certainly is the infamous 'Cocksucker Blues' issued by Decca on blank labels (!) as a free bonus with the first copies of the 4-LPs box set
'The Rest Of The Best' in 1984. This record is the only 'official' worldwide release of this track, heavily bootlegged since Decca reject it way back in 1970.
All labels from the 70's are red with the boxed black & white Decca logo. Many variations and white promo labels issues exist.
'Satisfaction' [DL 25390, 6.11166], as one can expect, was reissued many times in the 70's. Up to 1974, two different covers were made for two catalogue numbers, each knowing label variations.
This will also be the case with 'Paint It, Black' [DL 25519, 6.11170] and 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' [DL 25536, 6.11175], both being reissued in 1972 and 1976.
During this time, the black and white boxed Decca logo [type IV] slightly evolves and can be found within a more or less thick lettering.
The original 'Little Queenie' cover is as minimalist as can be, black & white, only titled 'Stones' on front, and with actual stones on back.
'Look What You've Done' is exclusive to Germany and offers a gatefold booklet cover with the Decca albums back catalogue, each page in color featuring a member of the 1971' band's line-up with album pictures.
In 1971, 'Street Fighting Man' is reissued with a new cover extracted from the 'Sticky Fingers' sessions featuring Mick Taylor! - and, as for Sweden, is coupled with 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love' only.
Such mistake should not prevent Decca from making further conceptual errors, as could attest the 1970's 'live' cover for the 1966 studio track 'Sad Day' [DL 25576] in 1973, or the early band shots for the covers of 'I Don't Know Why' and 'Out Of Time' - the latter of which being also issued in Italy in the same PS.
Issued in 1974, 'Sympathy For The Devil' cover [DL 25610] uses the famous shot by Michael Joseph from the 'Beggars Banquet' sessions, as for Japan, signing a different PS than the Belgian or Dutch versions. The track here has been shortened to 3:53, fading in the middle of the last verse.
A real oddity is 'All Sold Out' / 'Connection' in 1981, an exclusive single supposed to promote the then current Decca compilation album 'Solid Rock' - LP and 7" with the same unique 'Mount Rushmore'
revisited artwork - as well as the 12-LPs box set 'The Rolling Stones Story'.
This latter set had a follower in 1984 with 'The Rest Of The Best', an unusual 4-LPs box set compilation containing
never-released before tracks like 'Da Doo Ron Ron' or 'Memphis Tennessee', and the infamous 'Cocksucker Blues' as a bonus 7".
Teldec / Decca carefully used blank labels for the joke though, leaving the fine print to an extra sticker 'Die Sensation!'.
And if you ever dreamt of having the Concord, Neil Armstrong, Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali,
and Mick Jagger within the same picture, look no further than the 'Big Hits 1965-75' series from 1987.
This set of 5 new compilation singles of the band's greatest hits was the last Decca effort to sell the back catalogue
on singles in Germany before the Polygram offensive in 1989.