Brown sugar

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Brown Sugar ("Brown Sugar") is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones . It is the first title in the 1971 released album Sticky Fingers and was established in early 1971 as a single published . Was composed the song of Mick Jagger , who will also the open-g - guitar riff delivered that of Keith Richards was then recorded for the taking. The music magazine Rolling Stone chose the piece in 2004 at number 490 on its list of the 500 best songs of all time .

History of origin

The idea for the song came to the Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger in 1969 while filming the film Kelly, the Bandit , in which Jagger played the lead role. The first recordings of the piece began in the same year. Some recordings from this period are very popular among bootleg collectors, including a version in which Eric Clapton can be heard on slide guitar . Due to the offensive text, however, no recording has been published for the time being.

In the 1970 documentary Gimme Shelter , the song was played for the first time in a short demo version, as were the tracks You Gotta Move and Wild Horses , which are also featured on Sticky Fingers .

Brown Sugar's single release in April / May 1971 became a number one hit in the US and a number two hit in the UK . Since then it has been one of the most famous classic rock songs. While the US single as B-side only got the title Bitch , in Great Britain a live version of the Chuck Berry song Let It Rock was added, which the Stones performed at a concert at Leeds University in March 1971 Recordings.

The alternate version with Eric Clapton was released in the deluxe and super deluxe editions of the reissued Sticky Fingers album in June 2015.

Reception and meaning

Brown Sugar is one of the standard songs that the Stones perform at their concerts. It has been played on every tour since 1971. Live versions can be heard on the albums Love You Live (1977), Flashpoint (1991) and Live Licks (2004).

In 1982 released concert film Let's Spend the Night Together by Hal Ashby and that of Martin Scorsese turned concert documentary Shine a Light from 2008 the title is also represented.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Richards: Life. Phoenix-paperback, London 2011, p. 197.