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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: The Who’s Roger Daltrey Likens The To A “Mediocre Pub Band”
submitted by Nick Nov 14th 2021 10:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Last month, Paul McCartney took a shot at the Rolling Stones in a New Yorker interview: “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are,” McCartney said. “I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.”
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The Rolling Stones: The Who’s Roger Daltrey labels The “a mediocre pub band”
submitted by Nick Nov 14th 2021 01:00 pm (www.nme.com)
However, he says that in Mick Jagger they have "the number one rock'n'roll performer"The post The Who’s Roger Daltrey labels The Rolling Stones “a mediocre pub band” appeared first on NME.
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The Rolling Stones: Måneskin get Mick Jagger’s seal of approval after supporting The
submitted by Nick Nov 8th 2021 02:00 pm (www.nme.com)
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 winners opened for the veteran rockers in Las Vegas over the weekendThe post Måneskin get Mick Jagger’s seal of approval after supporting The Rolling Stones appeared first on NME.
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Richard Ashcroft: claims Netflix wants to make docudrama based on ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ dispute
submitted by Nick Nov 6th 2021 10:00 pm (www.nme.com)
The Verve famously were involved in a copyright dispute over the song's sample of The Rolling Stones' 'The Last Time'The post Richard Ashcroft claims Netflix wants to make docudrama based on ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ dispute appeared first on NME.
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The Rolling Stones: QAnon believers disappointed that dead John F Kennedy Jr didn't show up at concert
submitted by Nick Nov 4th 2021 02:00 pm (www.loudersound.com)
They're now speculating that Keith Richards is actually JFK. No, seriously.
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