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Paint It, Black (Bastien)
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On July 2, 2009
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Hello!
Thanks for your post, but it is not a question of grammar. The Rolling Stones spelt the title with a comma, therefore we have as well. Please see the picture at Paint It, Black.
This actually may be more a matter of the "song title" versus the "label title." A commonly accepted explanation for the comma is that it was a "stray" inadvertently (inexplicably?) placed on the label by Decca, and that the actual "original" title (per The Rolling Stones) did not contain the comma. (This has come up before. See, e.g., "Flat Foot Floogee," Flat Foot Floogee