Rolling Stones vinyl 7"s* found worldwide [including 827 UK  and 724 US ], and counting...

* as of Tuesday 16 April 2024 1820 releases + 3318 variations.
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'Brown Sugar' was released as a 7" single in the UK exactly 53 years ago on April 16, 1971, where it peaked at #2.
Its US counterpart, released at the same time, reached #1.

53 years today!

Though credited, like most Rolling Stones compositions, to the singer guitarist pair of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song was primarily the work of Jagger, who wrote it sometime during the filming of Ned Kelly in 1969. Originally recorded over a three day period at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama during 2-4 December 1969, the song was not released until over a year later due to legal wranglings with the band's former label though at the request of guitarist Mick Taylo... [+]