Brown Sugar
“Brown Sugar” is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Written primarily by Mick Jagger, it is the opening track and lead single from their album Sticky Fingers (1971). It became a number one hit in both the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it charted at number two. In the United States, Billboard ranked it as the number 16 song for 1971.
Rolling Stone ranked it number 495 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010 and number 490 in 2004 and at number five on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.[7]
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How do people feel about The Stones self-censoring by choosing not to play Brown Sugar during their last concert tour.
Jagger said he likely wouldn’t have written the song today. But Keith waffles by saying “don’t people realize it is about the horrors of slavery.”
The music is so typical rock and roll that I doubt many people are actually paying all that much attention to the lyrics. I would be curious to know if it still gets regular play on classic rock stations.