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Fact #100807

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Short story:

During filming of the movie Ned Kelly in Australia, Oceania, Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones is accidentally shot. While recuperating, he begins writing the song Brown Sugar.

Full article:

Mick Jagger (vocalist, Rolling Stones) : I'd had a gunshot accident in the movie, and I had to go to the hospital. Everyone was freaked out - they were worried, one, that I would sue and, secondly, that I wouldn't be able to work. On one of my first days back, I got a guitar with a portable amp, and I was playing the riff to Brown Sugar in the middle of this field outside my trailer. They were really pleased.


There are drug references that are sort of covered. The whole thing is double-
entendre. I didn't think about it at the time - it was very much stream of
consciousness. I don't know quite what to think of it now.


Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : I love it when Mick comes up with a good riff. It saves me having to sweat my guts out.


Mick Jagger : It's a good groove and all that. I mean, the groove is slightly similar to Freddy Cannon, this rather obscure '50s rock performer - Tallahassee Lassie or something. Do you remember this? 'She's down in F-L-A.' Anyway, the groove of that - boom-boom-boom-boom-boom - is Going To A Go-Go or whatever, but that's the groove.


Keith Richards : We cut a version of Brown Sugar with Al Kooper, it was a good track. He's playing piano on it at Bobby Keys' and my birthday party, which was held at Olympic Studios... We wanted to use it 'cause it's a new version but there's something about the Muscle Shoals feel of the album one, that we got into at the end of the last American tour. Charlie really fills the sound and it was so easy to cut down there.

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