American Songwriter

On This Day in 1969, The Rolling Stones Recorded a Hit Song Written About Mick Jagger’s Secret Girlfriend—or Was It?

On this day, December 3, 1969, this iconic rock band took to Muscle Shoals Studio to record their No. 1 hit from their No. 1 ...
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Rolling Stones pull 'Brown Sugar,' song with lyrics about slavery, from live performances

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. In an ...
American Songwriter

The Truth Behind the Reaction to the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar”

The Rolling Stones is one of the biggest rock bands of the last hundred years. So much of their music is still in rotation today, from “Paint It Black” to “Exile On Main St.” to “Let It Bleed”. And ...
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Brown Sugar isn’t the only problematic song in Rolling Stones history

News broke this week that The Rolling Stones would (finally) be dropping their hit song Brown Sugar from their US tour setlist - at least for now. The act comes in the name of racial sensitivity due ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

The trouble with the Stones’ ‘Brown Sugar’

Imagine everyone in a sold-out stadium singing along joyfully to a tune glorifying slavery, rape, torture and pedophilia, with the entire chorus led by a hyper-gesticulating 75-year-old white male, ...

Over 50 Years Later, This No. 1 Rolling Stones Album is Still Their Greatest of All Time

Over 50 years later, Sticky Fingers remains arguably the Rolling Stones’ greatest No. 1 album, a defining peak in their ...