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For 52 years and 1,296 concerts, the song
Brown sugar
has accompanied the Rolling Stones. The group debuted the song at the Altmont Festival, dubbed "the Woodstock of the West Coast", on December 6, 1969 and had it roll live on their 1969 US tour, a year before recording it on their LP
Sticky Fingers
, and since then it has been a fixture at their concerts. "
We have played it each and every night that we have given concerts since 1970,
" the group's singer, Mick Jagger, told the
Los Angeles Times
.
Up to now. On their current US tour, the Rolling have decided that
Brown Sugar will
not sound. The reason is obvious: fear of criticism.
Brown Sugar
is a song that deals with -or rather celebrates- the following themes:
slavery, rape, sadomasochism, racism, loss of virginity
, and, if one has a little bad intention -what, Given the issues that the subject deals with, it seems almost mandatory - sex with minors.
The point is that the Rolling Stones, despite all the virtues that may be attributed to them, were never great lyricists, and the public has not noticed most of those meanings. For most people
Brown sugar
is, without more, a
rock and roll
classic
, although it starts with two verses so little misleading as "A slave ship from the Gold Coast heading to the cotton fields / sold at the market in New Orleans ", and follow, shortly after, as" they hear him whipping the slaves after midnight. " Because, indeed, the theme tells how a white man buys a slave to rape her. That's where the refrain "Brown sugar,
how come you taste so good?
"
Comes from
.
Now, on the
No filter
tour
- which paradoxically means "no filter" - the three survivors of the band have decided that those lyrics are problematic.
As is usual in the group, there have been two explanations:
the business one
(from Mick Jagger) and
the visceral one
(from guitarist Keith Richards).
The best one is Richards: "Didn't they realize that that song is about the horrors of slavery? They're trying to bury it. For now, I don't want to get in trouble with all that shit, but
I hope we can resurrect that beauty
in all its glory on this tour. "
Jagger's version has all the excitement of a press release: "We've played
Brown Sugar
at all of our concerts since 1970, and sometimes we say 'let's take this [song] off and see what happens." The track list for a tour in stadiums it's complicated. " Jagger is the author of the topic. He wrote it in Australia, at
a time when, in his own words, his life was centered on "drugs and girls"
. In December 1995, in an interview with
Rolling Stone
magazine
(which, despite having almost the same name, have no relation to the group), he was more explicit, stating, literally, that the reference to 'brown sugar' It is "to the heroine and to fuck". Of course, with a certain racist touch:the original title was
Black pussy
.
In other words: "Black pussy".
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