"We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970," Richards told the newspaper. "So sometimes you think, ‘We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes.’ We might put it back in." ...

Brown Sugar by Jagger/Richards. Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold in the market down in New Orleans Scarred old slaver knows he’s doing alright Hear him whip the women just ...

No more 'Brown Sugar': Rolling Stones retire song due to slave narrative. Released in 1971, the opening lines of "Brown Sugar" reference a woman being sold into slavery and whipped around midnight.

The Rolling Stones have retired their classic song “Brown Sugar,” which begins with a slave narrative and sexualizes young Black women. Mick Jagger told the Los Angeles Times that the band had ...

The Rolling Stones dropped "Brown Sugar" from their concert setlist, saying they fear 21st century fans won't grasp that the tune is about "the horrors of slavery" and not celebrating it.

The Rolling Stones have dropped their 1971 hit “Brown Sugar” after it was labeled insensitive and racist. The song has been called out for making references to slavery, sex and drugs despite ...

The band’s possibly final “Brown Sugar” performance took place August 30th, 2019 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. It’s not hard to understand why some people want to bury the song.

I won’t miss “Brown Sugar” because I don’t really like it in the first place. I’m more of an “Emotional Rescue”/”Miss You” guy. And the ballads !

“Brown Sugar,” the opening track from the Rolling Stones’ 1971 masterpiece Sticky Fingers, is one of the band’s biggest hits. It reached #1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 and has been a mainstay ...