On the 29th May 1971, The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Brown Sugar’, from the album Sticky Fingers. It was also the first single released on Rolling Stones Records, it was the bands sixth US No.1, and a No.2 hit in the UK. The songs lyrics, which are essentially a pastiche of a number of taboo subjects, include: interracial sex, cunnilingus, slave rape, and less distinctly, sadomasochism, lost virginity, and heroin.
Though credited, like most of their compositions, to the singer/guitarist pair of Jagger/Richards, the song was primarily the work of Jagger, who wrote it sometime during the filming of the movie Ned Kelly in 1969. Originally recorded over a three-day period at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals Alabama from 2nd–4th December 1969, the song was not released until over a year later due to legal wranglings with the band’s former label, though at the request of guitarist Mick Taylor , they debuted the number live during the infamous concert at Altamont on 6th December.
The song was written by Jagger with Marsha Hunt in mind; Hunt was Jagger’s secret girlfriend and mother of his first child Karis. It is also claimed it was written with Claudia Lennear in mind. Lennear saying that it was written with her in mind because at the time when it was written, Mick Jagger used to hang around with her. The Rolling Stones performing “Brown Sugar” live in Texas, 1972.
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