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Rolling Stones RETIRE 'Brown Sugar' after criticism over slavery lyrics: Keith Richards says 50-year-old song is about 'horrors' of the trade but he's tired of fighting with people 'trying to bury it' and band will not play it anymore
2021-10-13
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  if it was written by Ta Nahesi-Coates, it would've won the Nobel prize in literature.

but since it was written by a bunch of limeys from Kent, it must be banned.
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-10-13 18:24  

#8  PIERS MORGAN: I'm getting no satisfaction from seeing the Rolling Stones surrender to the woke brigade - when the charts are full of rappers glorifying violent sex, misogyny and guns, why is Brown Sugar the song that's deemed offensive?
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-10-13 14:47  

#7  All this does is make sure I add it to my playlist..might be there already..have a few thousand so who knows..
Posted by: Warthog   2021-10-13 10:57  

#6  Since Charlie Watts died a few months ago, it's a safe bet they're not playing any songs anymore.
Posted by: Raj   2021-10-13 10:02  

#5  Lyrics

Yeah, its pretty bad...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-10-13 09:51  

#4  

Given the censors were <- 1970's super uptight and lyrics were suggestive at best...

I feel in the interest of equality all Gangster RAP should be removed, because the lyrics glorify criminal activity and degrades women?

Or is Black Rappers dis'ing Blacks culture ok?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-10-13 07:57  

#3  /\ Please permit us to respectfully decline on that one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-10-13 07:34  

#2  (( Please format this photo link for posting -- tia ))

Rolling Stones cover: Exile on Main Street
Posted by: Patriot    2021-10-13 07:30  

#1  Gimme
Gimme shelter
Or [we're] gonna fade away

Rape...
Murder...
It's just a shot away
SHOT away
SHOT away.... ee-yay-ee-ee-yaaaay, ay, hey, yay yay...
Posted by: Patriot    2021-10-13 06:44  

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