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“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 of their setlists for more than 50 years, since even before the studio version was released. It is also a messy and problematic song in which white men fetishize sex with Black women using lots of allusions to slavery. In his column The Number Ones, my colleague Tom Breihan summed up the thorniness of “Brown Sugar” like so:
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The Rolling Stones: share new teaser amid UK and European tour rumours
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The Rolling Stones: tease UK and European tour
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It looks like a bunch of new UK and EU tour dates are incoming from Mick and coThe post The Rolling Stones tease UK and European tour appeared first on NME.
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The Rolling Stones: Watch My Morning Jacket Cover The With Trey Anastasio At One Big Holiday
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Last night, My Morning Jacket kicked off the 2022 edition of their Mexico-based music festival, One Big Holiday, which runs through Saturday. Playing at Riviera Cancun, MMJ did a career-spanning set of songs, which included an appearance from Phish’s Trey Anastasio during the encore. All together, they covered Elton John’s &a...
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The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards and former cover artist Ruby Mazur get in on the NFT craze - for charity
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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is auctioning a signed guitar and NFT for charity MusiCares
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The Rolling Stones: to be honoured by Royal Mail with a set of 12 special stamps
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