Stones won’t play ‘Brown Sugar’

Maybe call it the “Some Filter” tour.

The Rolling Stones have not played their controversial 1971 megahit “Brown Sugar” on their current “No Filter” tour and fans may not hear it live again.

“Brown Sugar” starts aboard a slave ship headed to New Orleans to provide workers for the cotton fields. There are sexual implications in lyrics about a subject who looks, and tastes, “just like a Black girl should.”

Guitarist Keith Richards said he’s not completely sure why the tune is suddenly a problem, but he does appreciate sensibilities have changed in the half-century since “Brown Sugar” was released.

“Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it,” he said.

Singer Mick Jagger agreed “Brown Sugar” is out of the mix for now, but it hasn’t been retired.

“We might put it back in.”