and sometimes customers who were down on their luck would bring a bucket of young eel to pay for their coffee,” he said. “When I was young, eels were in every river and estuary,” said French researcher Eric Feunteun, a leading expert on the creature. Just thirty years ago, they were so common that in France they were even classed a nuisance, accused of damaging salmon stock and destroying fishing lines. TOKYO: Eels were once so abundant that they were considered a pest, but today the ancient creature is threatened by human activity and risks disappearing altogether, scientists and environmentalists warn.Įels appear in human mythology and ancient art, and their bones have been found in tombs dating back thousands of years. They will play a string of dates into November 2021 including in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Detroit. The Stones resurrected their “No Filter” tour in September after a long pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. God knows what I’m on about on that song. In 1995 Jagger told Rolling Stone magazine that “I never would write that song now.”
“We might put it back in,” he said, adding “the set list in a stadium show, it’s kind of a tough one.” “We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970, so sometimes you think, We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes,” frontman Mick Jagger told the LA Times. In recent years magazine critics and others in the industry have criticized the song as “racist,” including one writer for New York Magazine who called the track “gross, sexist, and stunningly offensive toward black women.” The gritty rock chart-topper officially released in 1971 opens with the lyric “Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields” and references beating enslaved people, and sex with young enslaved women. “I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track,” Richards, 77, added. At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts,” the superstar told the paper. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it. “I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. “You picked up on that, huh?” Keith Richards told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview, when asked about the song’s absence at the British band’s stadium shows. NEW YORK: The Rolling Stones have cut their popular track “Brown Sugar” from their US tour, at least for now, in the wake of criticism over its lyrics referring to slavery.
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