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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: to play US tour as planned despite Charlie Watts’ death
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Rest easy, CharlieThe post 10 reasons to love the late, great Charlie Watts, the beating heart of The Rolling Stones appeared first on NME.
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The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pay tribute to late bandmate Charlie Watts
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The 'Glimmer Twins' shared photos to commemorate their departed bandmateThe post Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pay tribute to late Rolling Stones bandmate Charlie Watts appeared first on NME.
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The Rolling Stones: Charlie Watts, 1941 – 2021: the ballast that kept The tempered and on-track
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The musical icon has sadly died at the age of 80. RIPThe post Charlie Watts, 1941 – 2021: the ballast that kept The Rolling Stones tempered and on-track appeared first on NME.
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The Rolling Stones: Revisit our 2018 video interview with late legend Charlie Watts
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