LEX IS PROLLY ONE OF THE HAPPIEST WOMEN IVE EVER SEEN ... YOU GOT LUCKY BRAD!

Lex, that is a tenor saxophone. Classic sound in blues, jazz and early rock-n-roll. Still used today.

Brown Sugar was written about Jagger's girlfriends Claudia Lennear and Marsha Hunt. Both women claim that the song was written about them specifically.

The stones are great for writing really provocative and honest lyrics that then navigate away from just enough clarity for anyone to really define enough to attack. That to me, is real art art. At a time when it was a lot less ok to be in an interracial relationship, at the end of the day, this song helped make it be more ok. And to me, I feel that's a good thing. Rock songwriters today use the same method of provoke and maneuver. But once you figure the lyrics out to a Stone's song, your faith in humanity is more likely to be restored, whereas contemporary artists are more likely to make you lose faith in humanity.

See Duke's comment below, he's right. The song was always said to have been inspired by either Claudia Lennear, one of the hottest, best backup singers in the business, or the lady who mothered his first child. No, it's not a love story, it's a riff on interracial relationships. And yeah, the sound was kind of a "homage" to older rock and roll style, where there was usually a strong tenor saxophone solo. Great pick guys, enjoyed this one. 🌲⛄🎅🌲

Lex puts more into one song than I've got energy for a whole week. Jim

This was recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL, thus the funky beat. Check out others recorded at Muscle Shoals - Percy Sledge (When a Man Loves a Woman), Clarence Carter (Look Away); Aretha Franklin (I Never Loved a Man Like I love you); Boz Scaggs w Duane Allman (Someone Lend me a Dime); Wilson Picket (Mustang Sally); Etta James (I'd Rather Go Blind) and hundreds of others. Muscle Shoals studio musicians had their own unique sound.

This was a total party song, back in the day! Surest way to fill up the dance floor. Nobody really thought about what it meant, or cared, it was just great to dance to!

I think Brad is so cool! Unlike most reactions channels, Brad gets right into it by saying,"Let's get right into it". Most other channels talk for a minute or two while you leave the talking to mid stream or the end. Keep up the good work! 👍

Beast of Burden. My dad always loved that one from the stones. He passed from covid this January. ❤ love how Lex gets her vibe on. 🎶

"Brown Sugar" was about getting "Some Sweet Loving" from your Afro-American Sweetheart. Young Black Men first coined the Phrase back in the Early 1960's. Another GREAT Rolling Stones "Funk" Song is "Honky Tonk Woman". This British Band loved to sing about the Women in New Orlean's... Apparently, they had a GREAT TIME there!

Tina Turner performed this live with the Rolling Stones. At the time she said it was a well written account of a dark time in history, that no matter how uncomfortable, cant be ignored. And they told the story so well accompanied with a great rock n roll tune.

When Lex was asking what that sound was, it was a tenor saxophone rocking out hard :)

Direct quote from mick in the liner notes of a later compilation of hits "The lyric was all to do with the dual combination of drugs and girls. This song was a very instant thing, a definite high point".

"SWAY" by the Stones is a great song with the great "Mick Taylor" as the lead guitarist.

When you know the song and you just wait till it dawns on them lol. And brown sugar "I don't think it's a love story" is quote of the century for me.

The Stones should never stop doing this song

From Custard Pie to Brown Sugar, and we still ain't talking about food!!

These guys are so good. Got to be in the top 2 greatest bands of all time. 8 number 1 hits, 10 number 1 albums, and 28 top 10 singles.

This song along with Wild Horses were both recorded in a studio on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama.(Studio used to be an old used appliance storage building. And i delivered alot of used appliances into that place lol) Cher's first album in her career was recorded in the same studio. And the album was named after the studio. The Rolling Stones are not the only artist to ever record here in northwest Alabama. And 3614 Jackson Highway isnt the only studio to ever record hit songs. The other studio being FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) owner Rick Hall was the man who made this area famous for making hit music. Hometown native Arthur Alexander recorded a song called " You better move on" That song was the song that the Rolling Stones did a cover of for the European fans in the 60's and got their attention about the amazing blues, soul, southern gospel type sound. And they wanted to record a couple of songs here. Percy Sledge another native of the area, had a song called "When a man loves a woman" during that time. Then the producers and artist came flooding in. Jerry Wexler, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Duane Allman, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Michael McDonald, Alisha Keys, Kid Rock, Steven Tyler, Nuno Bettencourt, Alan Jackson, and more. Those are just a few that recorded at FAME. Here is a list of the ones that recorded at 3614 Jackson Highway. Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Black Keys, The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Dire Straights, Rod Stewart, Paul Simon, The Staple Singers, Bozz Skaggs, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, the list goes on. And now I'm going to make this story connect with my favorite band MetallicA. Walt Aldridge, and Gary Baker (Wrote the song "I swear") live here in the Shoals. WC Handy the father of the blues was born here in Florence. The founder of Sun Studios in Memphis Tennessee (Sam Phillips the father of Rock n Roll) and signed artist such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash. Was born in Florence and is buried here. The man who helped write songs for Carrie Underwood (Before he cheats and others) Florida Georgia line, and a couple of rock bands. Chris Tompkins is someone I grew up with because his aunt lived right behind my house and I was a close friend with his cousin. Which now leads me to Gary Nichols, and Jason Isbell. I went to school with Gary Nichols. He was doing really well in country music. Had a video called "On broken ground" but he fell off somewhat. But still a really good guitar player. Jason Isbell and Tompkins went to the same high school (Rogers HS) Jason Isbell has a band called Jason Isbell and the 400 unit. And they recorded a cover of Sad But True for the Blacklist for MetallicA. BOOM! lol. If you guy love music, especially r&b, classic rock, southern rock, country, you name it. Come visit the Shoals in northwest Alabama. Or at least watch the Documentary movie "Muscle Shoals " special guest Bono from U2, Alisha Keys, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and others. Also my uncle was a musician that recorded at Sun studio in Memphis, Tn with his band Lou Roberts and the Marks. You can find several of their songs on KZfaq from those recordings. I know you guys have a love for music. As I myself also. Music runs through my veins, just like it does through the Tennessee river in which the area gets its musical and name identity from. The river that sings, the Muscle Shoals sound! 😉 I apologize guys! I really love the music history of my home, my family, and friends. Please check out some of the musicians and newer videos from Muscle Shoals and FAME. ROLL TIDE!

I looked this up after watching your reaction and according to an article from CNN Entertainment, Mick Jager said of critics "Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery?" It was released in 1971. He said he would probably censor himself from writing it as of 1995. Keith Richards said he hopes society will be more accepting of some version of the song in the future.

According to R&B singer Marsha Hunt, mother of Mick Jagger's eldest daughter, Mick was inspired by their "romantic relationship" for the lyrics.

Lex is definitely my brown sugar!

Brown sugar, the Rolling Stones history lesson

This, for me, was the ultimate Beach song (along with The Beach Boys) when the song first came out. It’s a memory that comes back to me crystal clear, when I was a kid back East (Ocean City & Bethany Beach): girls in Bikinis, throwing frisbees on the beach, people enjoying life, and there’s The Stones providing the soundtrack!! Great song!

Yes, it’s called Stockholm Syndrome when someone becomes attached to their captor in an emotional way! I love this song! The Rolling Stones are the prototype for what a real Rock band should be! This song was released in 1971! Mick Jagger is the best, he just loves all types of women! Music can tell many stories and I don’t find anything weird with this story! It’s about a realistic situation that probably happened a lot in the time of servitude!❤️❤️

Brad: disturbing lyrics, Lex: lets dance

Lex, you were born out of time. You have the spirit of a 70's teen.

There’s always layers to their songs! Both of you are correct! Nice job!

That sound where Lex says " What is this ? " Is the saxophone 🎷

Damn I love Lex

The back story to this song that I heard was that the Stones had some black girls who were backup singers while on tour and they started hooking up with them. It was so great they wrote a song about it.

Love this song! Never retire it.

And that is just one of the reasons why the Rolling Stones are one of the two greatest rock and roll bands in the world

I'm not a huge Stones fan, but "Under My Thumb" is one of their best songs.

Mick did in fact have a real appreciation for black women & he sings about it

I think I read that Mick Jagger was inspired to write this after hooking up with one of Ike and Tina Turner's backup singers.

This song has 2 meanings to the overall scheme of things. On one hand you have the slavery on the other hand you have the brown sugar which usually refers to ( Mexican brown or Mexican shoe scrapings which is a meaning for Heroin } which Keith used to inject and Mick use to smoke.

Rolling Stones! Yes, yall are correct on what the songs about lol. If I recall Mick Jagger used to date a pretty black lady back in the days, I forget her name, but she was one of the back up singers for Tina Turner.

As a huge Stones fan, I had always hoped that Mic Jagger meant no ill will with the lyrics of this song... Thank you Brad because I never thought of the possible drug reference, which it could be about heroin. Which stones fans know that most of them have tried a time or 2...

When this album was first released, the cover featured a man wearing tight blue jeans with an actual working zipper. The zipper didn’t reveal any anything. I was working at a record store and it was fun watching giggling girls unzip the zipper. Memories…..

This was a huge hit in the early seventies. I think it was on the album sticky fingers.

Brad and Lex - you both rock. I’ve watched many of your reviews and appreciate you know your s..t musically and the dynamic between you just simply works - huge love from London xx

The Rolling Stones have a lot of historical types of songs, like Sympathy for the Devil. Many songs about sex, like Stray Cat Blues, Sister Morphine, they've explicitly explored the dark side of humanity with a wink and a leer. Also with amazing musicianship, Bobby Keys on saxophone, founding band member of the Stones, Ian Stewart (deemed too ugly to be on stage with the band, which is saying something) like this song is saying something about slavery, rape, and for that matter Gimmie Shelter touches on the same theme with that lyric sung by a pregnant black woman a lot of sex, drugs and it's only rock and roll.

I love The Rolling Stones. I love this song. I love this channel. Rock n Roll Brad & Lex

Stones are one of the greatest!!

I luv u both soo much, rock on and ty for the entertainment. Especially in these hard times...luvs u 🥰

Mick was a showman! RIP Charlie Watts. Mick loved James Browns moves and tried like he'll to imitate him.

Claudia Linear, back-up singer for The Stones, was Mick's inspiration. Brown Heroin was Keith's.

“Brown Sugar” is said to have been inspired by at least one of two Black women Jagger was romantically associated with at the time, one of whom is actually the mother of his first child.

It’s love across borders, races, money, and language. Human nature, and the bond of attraction/love, is stronger than all! 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

Mick said the song was about Claudia Lennear one of his backup singers he was involved with. Very gorgeous.

that is indeed one banging harmonica!!!! 🤣love it!! such a tune 🙂

It’s funny how much of the songs that I heard my parents play as a kid lyrically went over my head and made sense when grown but as a kid had no idea what tf I was singing

Claudia lennear was a back up singer for ike and tina Turner and was the inspiration for the david bowie song called lady grinning soul and was the inspiration for brown sugar and has come out publicly and she says she wishes the rolling stones had not removed it from this 2021 tour for the first time in 50 years because some people found the song offensive

You guys are so entertaining. Better than anything on TV these days.

Gotta love The Rolling Stones!!

In the 60s when the British rock stars headed to the US they met all these glamorous talented black ladies who they employed as back-up singers. Being British (and more counter culture types) they didn't have the same bias against mixed race relationships like their American counterparts did (Elvis had several black girlfriends that his minders kept hidden).

This is a great song and great to listen to driving the open road. Saw the Stones in concert at MSG July of 1972, it was Mick Jagger’s 29th birthday and this was the song they opened with. Ticket price was $10.

WOW. I've LISTENED to this song so many times... and loved it. This is perhaps the first time I've ever HEARD it... and it shocked me. I feel as if I learn something every day with you guys.

"Stockholm Syndrome" is indeed the psychological effect you were referencing, named for an incident in 1973 where a bank robber took a bunch of bank clerks as hostages. If you liked this but are interested in trying something a bit different from the same band, try The Rolling Stones: "Angie."

Brown Sugar is actually a song about slavery and a slave being bought in New Orleans and raped by her white master, it's meant to shed light on the past, at the time of writing the song, Mick was dating a black back up singer for Tina Turner

That was a Saxophone played by the late great Bobby Keys!

OH!!! and I know I keeps saying it, "Lex, you got some moves!"

I don't know, maybe it's me, but is their anyone else who never really paid attention to the lyrics and just loved the music to this song and most every rock song back in the day. For me, if I sang along with most songs back then I knew some lyrics here and there, but mostly just vibed to the beat and music. Could really care less about lyrics back then. The girls most definitely paid attention to the lyrics but most of the guys in my group just wanted to jam out to the music. I'm learning what some meant by listening to some of these reactions. Never too old to learn

Because of this song I became fan of the Stones. The intro is unique.

You guys are great!

I always heard the lyric as "how come you dance so good".

The opening chords to this song are maybe the best thing that Keith Richards ever came up with. When the second guitar sweeps in, I looose it! I have to howl! The lyrics, of course, are very controversial. The Stones don't play it anymore for fear of offending anyone. They're clever, all the same. It's a great, great tune forever!

Mick Jagger wrote "Brown Sugar" about Marsha Hunt, an actress who became the first black model to ever appear on the cover of Britain’s high-fashion magazine, Queen. Mick and Marsha had one child, a daughter named Karis.

I love this song for all the right reasons, and all the wrong reasons! ❤

Mick Jagger wrote the lyric. According to Bill Wyman, it was partially inspired by a black backup singer named Claudia Lennear, who was one of Ike Turner's Ikettes. She and Jagger met when The Stones toured with Turner in 1969. David Bowie also wrote his Aladdin Sane track "Lady Grinning Soul" about Lennear. American-born singer Marsha Hunt is also sometimes cited as the inspiration for the song. She and Jagger met when she was a member of the cast in the London production of the musical Hair, and their relationship, a closely guarded secret until 1972, resulted in a daughter named Karis.

This is the time in the history of The Stones when The Beatles had already broken up and if there was any debate over who was the greatest rock band, it was now no competition anymore....during the next few years, The Stones crafted their hard-driving sound and went into a league of their own!

"What is that?" she said. OMG. Neither one of them could identify the sound of a saxophone! I'm not sure how I feel about that....Is the saxophone getting no love in the music world these days?

The Stones are the very Definition of Rock N Roll

Classic Stones toe tappin', hip shakin' rock 'n' roll. That's right in the Stones sweet spot during their absolute peak (1968-1973). Anything from the Stones during that era is pure gold.

People always claim "Exile on Main Street" is the best Stones album, but "Sticky Fingers" is better IMO...

This is one of those songs that somehow manages to be utterly brilliant despite the horrific lyrics

Some say that Marsha Hunt, a black woman and mother to one of Jagger's children, was the inspiration. Others say it was Claudia Lennear (one of the Ikettes, of Tina Turner and the Ikettes), another woman Jaggar had an affair with. Bill Wyman confirms the notion that it was partly inspired by Lennear. Jagger once stated that "The lyric was all to do with the dual combination of drugs and girls. This song was a very instant thing, a definite high point" He said that he didn't have a specific meaning behind the lyrics, kind of a mishmash of impressions he had as he wrote.

You make me smile girl with your smile your always happy love it

Yeeeeaah, a song from 1971 written by two British guys, who grew up listening to American Blues, and whose bands earlier albums include many a cover song of the Black American blues artists. Safe to say it’s meant to be pretty straightforward, especially since they have songs like, “Sister Morphine,” and there really isn’t much metaphor used there, (despite the title.)

The track was originally titled “Black Pussy”. The lyrics make reference to slavery, sexual violence and heroin, with the opening verse depicting a slave driver whipping black women. The song is believed to be inspired by one of the band member’s former girlfriends. It took Sir Mick just 45 minutes to write.

Total classic! Quintessential Rolling Stones.

House Ninja!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Too funny Brad.

I was shocked at the lyrics. I always loved the sound and energy of the song but I had no idea. Looked it up and Jagger was in a relationship with a black backup singer when he wrote this song so you can figure out the rest.

Happy Wife Happy Life - Lex is an incredible woman but for her to be so happy her domestic life has to be doing really great and I think that Brad has to be a large part of why she is so happy, so good on you both! Stay happy and Stay awesome! Mr. Brownstone is about Heroin and Master of Puppets is Cocain(I think)

She's adorable!

I went to see them in October at the place where the Panthers play. They absolutely killed it. 🔥🔥

Yeah, Mick's caught some heat for the lyrics, especially as we've moved into much more PC times, but when asked what he was thinking, he's always said he just wrote the lyrics out by the pool in Tampa, Fla. where the band was staying on tour then. And Lex, the solo you heard was a saxophone. It sounds AMAZING live!! Saw them in Houston in 2019 & when they played this...SO GOOD! 🎷

Over here we’ve always thought it’s about Heroin.

I love how to smile creeps up on Brad as he be thinking 🤔 🙃 what's he talking bout😀

Excellent, Brad…

The lyric is about slaves from Africa who were sold in New Orleans and raped by their white masters. The subject matter is quite serious, but the way the song is structured, it comes off as a fun rocker about a white guy having sex with a black girl. >> Mick Jagger wrote the lyric. According to Bill Wyman, it was partially inspired by a black backup singer named Claudia Lennear, who was one of Ike Turner's Ikettes. She and Jagger met when The Stones toured with Turner in 1969. David Bowie also wrote his Aladdin Sane track "Lady Grinning Soul" about Lennear.

Brad, you're right. This ain't no love song. This is literally a slave owner raping a slave. The house boy is also a slave. Very complicated song. On one hand, it tells a truth a lot of Southerners didn't want to hear, that there were sexual relations with slaves. On the other hand, it makes slavery sound like a party. Incidentally, Mick was dating a black back up singer named Claudia Lennear. It's speculated that she inspired the song.

Brad's a lucky guy, He's got a rock & Roller on his side.

Absolutely a harmonica and guitar Lead singer and rock and roll legend

Rolling Stones- Beast of Burden is very good

Mick was just out to shock with this one. This was the opening track on the Sticky Fingers album. This was the period of the infamous Altamont concert and Performance in the cinema so the Stones were hotter than hell at the time.

Lex would be so much fun on the dance floor!

and the instrument you could not recognize, and thought might be a harmonica, it was Bobby Keys on the saxophone!