Ever Wonder Who the Inspiration Was for Mick Jagger’s “Brown Sugar?”

I really don't like much from the Stones that didn't come from  the album Tatoo You. I'm not that big a fan.The song Brown Sugar is not something I would have wanted to be the inspiration for! 

His daughter  looks like him! I only found out about him having a daughter with Marsha Hunt when yahoo did a story on him and all his children a couple of months back. I read about how he denied being her father for a long time. She and Jade, Mick's daughter with Bianca, are said to be very close. Jade was a brides's made at her wedding and vice versa. I was glad to hear how close they were as sister's. I worked with his other daughter Lizzy(Elizabeth) when she was modeling about ten, twelve years ago, little brat!  I saw him at his girlfriend L'wren  Scotts fashion show last year. He was shorter than I expected. I'm either jaded because I've been in fashion for a long time or it's a reflection of just how unexcited some celebrities make me. LOL!

This may be off topic, but maybe not Ladies and Gents, and music fans  : )

  -The Who!

 It's rock related, from the Stones era, and last night, November 14th 2012,  I saw The Who performing their 1973 Quadrophenia album, at the new Barclay's  Center in Brooklyn NY, Atlantic Avenue. Aside from the amazing show (and still extremely loud and majestic) that this  legendary British band delivers, I was pleasantly surprised to see, that there were some IR couples in the audience; not just BW and WM, but an Asian and Hispanic couple in the seats in front of us, because this particular neighborhood is changing, and on the cusp. 

Secondly, the new Barclay Center brings these great acts into town along with the Nets, thereby creating jobs, in a neighborhood that borders a depressed inner city area, to a gentrified and  "bourgeois  bohemian" area. This in turn will bridge neighborhoods, which already have been healing in the last 10 or 20 years.

Please tell me that I am not an idealist  : )  ...?

Never heard of this song, but - ewwwww.  This is creepy.  That's exactly how I DON'T to be portrayed.

Here is another version with Mik and Tina Turner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5zZpMIrWu8&feature=colike

Marsha was GORGEOUS and still look good. They have a lovely daughter. But I too am not a fan of the rolling stones. I like some or a couple of Bowie's music better then the stones. And this is not because of the song "brown sugar."

Agreed with aforementioned comment/s, that the melody itself along with the catchy "Open G chord" guitar riff makes it a classic rock song. The lyrics, I never thought about too much until 2005, when my AA GF and I went to see them. She actually mentioned at the end, that they didn't play Brown Sugar, but then it came in the encore.

Marsha wasn't the only brown sugar Mick was into.  P.P. Arnold, the first person to release The First Cut Is the Deepest, was also involved with him.  She said England was a totally different world for a black woman, and the relationships (friendships, romance, help in the music industry) she had would not have happened in America at that time.  Just above the picture of her with the Stones, she talks about Mick juggling her, singer Marianne Faithfull, and model Chrissie Shrimpton! http://www.rogerwaters.org/interviews-new/pparnoldint.html

From an article on the Petraeus affair:

"Regardless, privacy aside, there’s one thing I find to be an absolute certainty: If you communicated evidence of your lovemaking by e-mail or text message—like Petraeus apparently did—my research shows that you will likely be found out. All cheating affairs I encountered were discovered because of a digital paper trail. Remember, people: Don’t put it in writing."

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-12/how-often-do-people-have-sex-at-the-office#r=nav-r-story

Basically, you can only write love letters to your spouse if you want to avoid ever getting caught up in some drama. 

And.. Bowie is better. ;)

I LOVE her hair. 

Hmm....I also find it rather uncomplimentary, insofar as it draws significantly upon ancient racist themes dating back to slavery about black women and their sexuality. If anything, his shabby treatment of Ms. Hunt and the daughter he had by her is reminscent of that. Granted, he treated the wives who mothered his children in some sort of shabby fashion (Bianca and Jerry Hall), he married each of them. All his children by them were recognized as being children of the marriages, while Ms. Hunt had to fight to get recognition for her child.

"Oh to be a fly on the wall who can read, so I could get a chance of what those love letters contained during the Sotheby’s auction for them on December 12 in London." 

That's not cool--what Hunt is doing. 

I was once involved with this guy who I wrote very intimate emails to. Like, the kind of stuff that I would never in a million years say out loud or put in print to anyone else, but I (thought) I really liked this guy and that he liked me back so, yeah, I went there. Anyways, we eventually stopped talking to each other (surprise!) and I asked him to erase my emails. My friends told me how petty it was of me to ask him to do such a thing, but I didn't care how petty it looked or how petty he thought I was--all I could think about was getting rich and famous one day and then he would pop up out of nowhere to sell my emails so that he could pay his kids college tuition or something. He said that he would delete them. Man I really hope he told me the truth. 

I want to like the song, but I don't like the lyrics.  I guess he is trying to be complimentary, but he fails miserably.

Off topic.  Did anyone see The Simpsons last night?  It was about Abe(grandpa) Simpson's old swirl relationship.

These lyrics are racist as hell! I don't find them a compliment. He's glorifying slavery rape of black women and how white oppressors were obsessed over black women!? I never have liked the stones very much but this is just wrong!!! So, he treated she and her daughter with indifference over the years?! Hmm, didn't sound like he loved her, just that he was satisfying some sexual curiosity like the white slave masters did over black women.

Not attractive and highly offensive. He could have done better than that. Ugh.

She's beautiful though and so is there daughter.

Funny, I've heard that song a million times but never knew the lyrics. IIRC, Houseboy is a  British slang term for a black house servant ... my interpretation of the song is that its the view of "over-sexed" black folk from a bored British white kid.

Sounds like he was more interested in bedding a black woman than loving one.

If those love letters were so beautifully written and so lyrical, why didn't he write a song using one of those? Never been a big Stones fan. I'm more a Fab Four girl.

I have to admit that the words of that song are not romantic to me.  The whole idea of White masters raping Black female slaves is not cute in my opinion.  I always flip the station when it comes on.

Yep, I was aware of this

Hated the song, but she's a pretty lady.

Not a compliment....

LOL Oh dear. Awful, awful lyrics, but then I was never a huge fan of the Stones though my parents were. Black seriously don't crack people, she looks fabulous.

Wow, I didn't know Sir Mick was still alive! My mother had a teen girl crush on him back before I was born.

I have to admit he looks a lot better than Sir Paul McCartney, who looks like an elderly lesbian.

Mick should have married Marsha; she looks pretty good in that picture. 

["Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste." Well, I am!]