Sit beside me in the Whale Time Machine.  Our trip into time is about to begin. The date is set for December 3rd, 1969.

It was on that day, a rock-n-roll group named The Rolling Stones were busy in a recording studio (Muscle Shoals Studio)  putting together a tune that would become a number one hit in both Great Britain and the United States.

That tune is Brown Sugar from the album ' Sticky Fingers. Written by Mick Jagger, the rumor is the song inspiration was Marsha Hunt, who became the mother of his first child. But there is also a claim the song was written with Claudia Lennear in mind.

For today's Classic Rock Throwback Thursday, enjoy some Brown Sugar from a Rolling Stones performance in 1971 at UK's Top of the Pops.

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