LOS ANGELES -- The Rolling Stones have retired their classic song "Brown Sugar," which begins with a slave narrative and sexualizes young Black women. Mick Jagger told the Los Angeles Times that the ...

The Rolling Stones have retired their classic song "Brown Sugar," which begins with a slave narrative and sexualizes young Black women. Mick Jagger told the Los Angeles Times that the band had phased ...

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 Rolling Stones dropped "Brown Sugar" from their concert setlist, saying they fear 21st century fans won't grasp that the tune is about "the horrors of slavery" and not celebrating it. In an ...

Piers Morgan has received backlash after hitting out at the Rolling Stones’ decision to retire their 1971 hit, 'Brown Sugar'. The British rock band has retired the song due to its lyrics in relation ...

Mick Taylor, who replaced Stones cofounder/multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones in 1969, elevated the band’s musicality with his ...

In 2021, five decades after the song’s release, The Rolling Stones pulled it from their tour setlist due to the continued backlash caused by its controversial lyrics. The Rolling Stones Cause ...

Their position within rock royalty encouraged an error of judgment and lapse of accountability, which resulted in perhaps their worst song in history, and undoubtedly the very worst number one of 1971 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bobby Keys, a saxophonist and life-long rock 'n roller who played on recordings by Buddy Holly and John Lennon and performed one of the all-time blowout solos on the Rolling Stones' ...