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Mick wrote 'Brown Sugar' when he was in Australia in summer 1969. One of the first songs where he also wrote the music as well.
This is presumably a 'Gimme Shelter' outtake.
The live debut of the song was a few days after this, at a certain free festival at a speedway in California.
Mick on writing it :
(thanks to timeisonourside.com)
I've written riffs that people assume are Keith's.) Brown Sugar. That was the first one I did. I've done many since. - Mick Jagger, 1994
At the end of the '60s I had a little more time to sit around and play my guitar, writing songs rather than just lyrics for the first time. I'd written songs before then, but they were little things like Yesterday's Papers. Now I could take it more seriously. Brown Sugar was one of those songs. I wrote it in Australia, somewhere between Melbourne and Sydney, while I was in my trailer filming Ned Kelly - I had a whole bunch of time out there. I was simply writing what I wanted to write, not trying to test the waters. People are very quick to react to what you write, but I just write what comes into my head. - Mick Jagger, 2003
I wrote that song in Australia in the middle of a field. They were really odd circumstances. I was doing this movie, Ned Kelly, and my hand had got really damaged in this action sequence. So stupid. I was trying to rehabilitate my hand and I had this new kind of electric guitar, and I was playing in the middle of the outback and wrote this tune. But why it works? I mean, 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. - Mick Jagger, 1995
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