The Rolling Stones have discussed why they haven’t been playing their hit ‘Brown Sugar’ on their current US tour.The band’s ‘No Filter’ tour kicked off in St Louis, Missouri on September 26, which the band dedicated to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who died at the age of 80 in August.In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were asked about ‘Brown Sugar”s omission from the setlist so far, and whether it’s related to its slavery-referencing opening line: “Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields.”“You picked up on that, huh?” Richards answered. “I don’t know.
I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery?
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