music · 29 May 1971 · 53 years ago
The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Brown Sugar'. 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.
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