remake is what first came in to my mind when I saw it on the london years box set, but why include the k?

Someone did come up with a cool explanation, I think involving the studying of the elements or something like that.

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john r
rmk was on my More Hot Rocks which I got when it was released in 12/72. I always wondered what it meant, remake being the obvious explanation, but it's the same version, I think, from my long ago comparison

I got mine in 12/72 too and there's no rmk on it
(ref London 2 PS 626/7)

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His Majesty
remake is what first came in to my mind when I saw it on the london years box set, but why include the k?

Someone did come up with a cool explanation, I think involving the studying of the elements or something like that.

That's right but I don't remember who wrote that:

Child of the Moon is jagger's stoned/trippy
perception of the face in the moon being
not a man but rather a beautiful young woman.
This personification of nature was also the
theme of She's a Rainbow, and like that song,
Child must be at least partially understood as
a Beatles homage/parody. In the lyrics, there
is constant reference to the sky and weather.
Besides the moon, the wind, sun, rain, fog,
stars, and mist are all specifically mentioned.
RMK is the standard abbreviation for remarks
on meterological observation tables, again
pointing to this song being jagger's drugged
and poetic observations about the beauty
of one particular night. In keeping with the
Beatles-parody aspect of the song, Mick uses
his fruitiest voice at the outset to say, "Land
sake's alive, Charles, I have to go pay my taxes
(in my coach?)", another jab at the supposedly
revolutionary beatles and their doing so decidedly
patrician a song as "taxman", a track that like
"child" features a droning melody line and prominent
echoey rhythm guitar. (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
being the other obvious reference point)

Whatever its inspiration or psych origins, its a timeless lyric and killer record.

up - take your pick