The Rolling Stones have discussed why they haven't been playing their hit "Brown Sugar" on their current US ... Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery?

Hats off to Mick Jagger and company for staying ... later give us such racist atrocities as “Brown Sugar” and “Some Girls?” At least this song didn’t hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot ...

Jagger, however, changed the song's meaning to better fit the story of a failing love. Sticky Fingers’s 1971 No. 1 hit Brown Sugar has the two aspects essential to the Stones's most enduring ...