Brown Sugar

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Written by: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Produced by: Jimmy Miller
Released: April '71 on Rolling Stones
Charts: 12 weeks
Top spot: No. 1

Here the Stones lay waste to a battery of taboo topics -- slavery, sadomasochism, inter-racial sex -- and still manage to be catchy as hell. The song got its start at a session at Muscle Shoals studios: Jagger scrawled three verses on a stenographer's pad, and Richards followed with an impossibly raunchy riff. Add some exultant punctuations ("Yeah! Yeah! Woooo!" ) and you have a Stones concert staple.

Appears on: Sticky Fingers (Virgin)

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