Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)

"Brown Sugar"
Single by The Rolling Stones
from the album Sticky Fingers
B-side"Bitch"/"Let It Rock" (UK)
Released16 April 1971 (1971-04-16)
Recorded2–4 December 1969
StudioMuscle Shoals (Sheffield)
Genre
Length3:50
LabelRolling Stones
Songwriter(s)Jagger–Richards
Producer(s)Jimmy Miller
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Honky Tonk Women"
(1969) 		"Brown Sugar"
(1971) 		"Wild Horses"
(1971)
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Alternative covers

"Brown Sugar" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Written primarily by Mick Jagger, it is the opening track and lead single from their ninth studio album, Sticky Fingers (1971). It became a number one hit in both the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it charted at number two. In the United States, Billboard ranked it as the number 16 song for 1971.

Rolling Stone ranked it number 495 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010 and number 490 in 2004 and at number five on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.[7]

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  2. ^ Mike Jahn (1973). Rock: from Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones. Quadrangle. p. 284. ISBN 9780812903140.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stones (14 April 2009). The Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964–1971: Authentic Bass TAB Sheet Music Transcription. Alfred Music. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4574-3336-8.
  4. ^ Unterberger, Richie. The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar at AllMusic. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  5. ^ Richie Unterberger. "The Rolling Stones Brown Sugar Composed by Mick Jagger / Keith Richards". All Music. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  6. ^ Beviglia, Jim (2015). Counting Down the Rolling Stones: Their 100 Finest Songs. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 95. ISBN 9781442254473.
  7. ^ "Brown Sugar". Rolling Stone. 9 December 2004 (accessed 25 April 2007).