Keith Richards and Mick Jagger wrote Brown Sugar during a 1969 recording session at the famed Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama.
It was the opening track and lead single from the Rolling Stones best-selling album Sticky Fingers and rocketed to become a number one hit in both the United States and Canada.
In Britain and Northern Ireland, Brown Sugar charted at number two while it was named by Billboard as the number 18 song for 1971.
In the Billboard music charts, Brown Sugar peaked at number one on May 29, 1971, beating Joy To The World by Three Dog Night and Never Can Say Goodbye by the Jackson 5 to the top slot.
The album which the track features on, Sticky Fingers, has gone on to sell more than three million copies in the US and was even inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
The album was so successful that it has already raked in $68,000 (£50,000) this year, with two months still to go. In 2018, its revenue came in at $95,000 (£70,000) across that year alone, compared with $12,000 (£9,000) in 2019 and $85,000 (£63,000) the following year.
Since its release in 1971, the Rolling Stones have performed the hit track on every single one of their tours - until pulling it from their latest No Filter Tour.
It was recorded in December 1969 but was not released until April 1971 due to a dispute with their former manager Allen Klein over royalties. Although recording technology had advanced by this time, the band decided to still release the original track, rather than re-recording it.
The Stones had also cut another version of the track at Olympic Studios in London in 1970 with Eric Clapton on guitar and Al Kooper on keyboards. It was shelved until 2015, when it was unearthed for the Sticky Fingers reissue.
Brown Sugar, Angie and Miss You sold almost 10million units combined in the 70s, while all three singles went to number one in the US. All of the Stones' 70s singles have reached nearly 17million copies sold.
Its success has continued through the decades as it has sold an impressive
