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Rolling Stones retire classic song 'Brown Sugar' following backlash

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The Rolling Stones retired one of their most popular rock songs due to lyrics that depict the horrors of slavery. The Stones have not played the 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" on their current tour and said the blues classic has been removed from their setlist. "You picked up on that, huh?," Keith Richards, 77, responded to the LA Times when asked if the Stones had cut the second-most-performed tune in their catalog amid a climate of heightened cultural sensitivity. "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?

But they’re trying to bury it." The first verse of the hit song depicts slaves being sold and beaten in Louisiana, with references to a.

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