Singer Mick Jagger agreed “Brown Sugar” is out of the mix for now, but it hasn’t been retired. “I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track,” Richard told the Times. It’s Richards’ hope that this isn’t the end for the “Sticky Fingers” single, but with the band members in their late 70s now and having recently lost drummer Charlie Watts at 80, time is no longer on the Stones’ side. “At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this s–.” “Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it,” he said. Richards said he’s not completely sure why the tune is suddenly a problem, but he does appreciate sensibilities have changed in the half-century since “Brown Sugar” was released. There are sexual implications in lyrics about a subject who looks, and tastes, “so good” – “Just like a Black girl should.” “Brown Sugar” starts aboard a slave ship headed to New Orleans to provide workers for the cotton fields.
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