In the old days, the music union laws forbade lip-syncing and miming... but the bands got around the laws... they often played along to a prerecorded track ( this was usually just the record with the vocals dropped out of the mix... ) then singing live... also they would sometimes drop one instrument, usually the bass or rhythm guitar, and then perform the part live for television... This is the original recording, with the band miming and Jagger singing live in the studio.
Just coming here to type the same thing. At first I thought 'lip synch' but Jagger does a few ad libs and its clearly him singing. I don't know about the rest of the band as there are no improvisations when they play this song, I really wish we could get the definitive answer ! The only reason I wonder about it is that I know they've played a lot of gigs where they were being recorded and its been said, many times/places' that Jagger would sing, live, but the rest of the bands playing was pre recorded. Something to do with the microphones/electronics back in the day having a tough time with recording the drums etc.
@@flynnlizzy5469 For sure only Mick´s vocals are live (and indeed absolutely great!) here, the instrumental music is complete playback! Just notice at the beginning, the music starts at min 0:09, but Keith starts acting 2 seconds later! And the 2nd guitar riff we hear doesn´t really match to Mick Taylor´s finger movements. And also the drums don´t match perfectly (at min 1:14 Charlie misses the crash cymbal we hear, at min 1:46 you can clearly see the drums covered with cartonage etc.) Still this is one of the best versions IMHO so far!
@@SimonFrank369 Other than the vocals it's definitely a playback but it's a different mix. Nobody's playing the tamboree and the sax solo is the "exact one" from the original recording... and that ain't Bobby Keys in the video...lol
@@kaveman1021 it's quite interesting how often that seems to be the case with singers. Sometimes the studio recording just can't do a song justice as good as a live performance can. I'm aware that the music in this performance is prerecorded but Micks vocals sound a lot grittier here than on the studio version and that is probably the sound he would've preferred according to an interview I saw him do where he said he wasn't completely happy with his performance on this song when the final studio mix came out.
@@kaveman1021 I agree with you. This alternate take or live version (I have yet to figure out which) of "Brown Sugar" in March 1971 on 'Tops of the Pops' is just terrific! And now, because of capitulation to the Marxist "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) agenda, The Rolling Stones are no longer performing live one of their best, most energetically performed tunes. Things were better when the Stones were equal opportunity offenders and didn't kowtow to political correctness.
Not a chance. TOTP made bands record a new unique version to be played on the show, but bands always made to lip synch to that version. Dead giveaway is Charlie’s drum skins. Covered with tampers. London
Live vocals but the backing music was from the recording . Interesting that the saxophonist wasn't on the stage , I guess there wasn't enough room after mick & kieths huge egos . Great stuff tho !
It's great. This is the studio backing track with a totally live vocal from Mick Jagger. The vocals crystal clear, diction spot on, you can make out every word. Actually quite a nice mix. Good visuals too with the rest of the band doing a passable job at miming.
If you look at the Stones' early 1980s videos you see that Mick has no ability to lip sync. That's because he'd never done it. When they filmed all of their 70s videos he was singing live to a backing track. Angie: live singing. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: live singing, etc.
The best albums of the Stones career happened when Brian Jones was catatonic and not playing, when Mick Taylor joined and before Ronnie Wood. Before and after they had great singles but not good albums.
I think it was a rehearsal for the show - as you can see there is hardly anyone in the studio. As such, it would be daytime and rock musicians usually aren't used to performing (or being awake) that early. Despite that he put everything into it and rather wore himself out!
I remember watching this on Top of the Pops in 1971. A memorable performance from Mick. Been a Stones fan ever since. Rip Charlie Watts he is great on this track.
I also remember watching this on Top of the Pops back in 1971. If I remember rightly the DJ who introduced them (can't remember who it was) said something about Jagger just coming back (from tour? absence? Jail ie drug bust? - I can't remember, but for some reason it stuck in my mind that this was some sort of comeback. I'd love to know if this memory is correct or a mixed up memory if someone could tell me. - btw I was only 12 years old so it is a bit of a blur.)
Even though Mick makes a fool of himself you're with him every step of the way and in turn he becomes the coolest dude on the planet. Brilliant vocal aswell! Love him!!
Mick doing his vocal part live. And he is doing it brilliantly. The rest of the band is miming along with the studio backtrack. You can even see at the start of the clip, that Keith is to late pretending to play his guitar.. the backtrack had already started.
absolutely the best live vocal I've ever heard from Mick....and great performance too. the guitar mix is different on the ride out as well. also apparently some top of the pops coke. i've never seen this before and it's made my fucking day thank you very much. blimey!
pre-recorded backing track, live vocal. Musicians union requirements for televised performance. watch Taylor and Keith - neither one play the lick, just both rhythm.
I like the way Jagger adds a bit of completely new melody to the song. It's the part where he sings "..get down on the ground Brown Sugar" using a sequence of notes and words not included in the studio version.
People who can 🩰 dance can get on their knees and get up and get back down on their knees, have u ever heard of Michael Jackson, watch him on Remember the time, I don't know if the song meant what u r insinuating, but a great song never the less, u just gotta keep your brain clean!!!!!
Not a stones fan, but I remember this as a kid. But when I stumbled across this performance, it blew me away. What a great vocal performance. I like it much better than the studio version.
Hey kids when you do black history month in your schools this song should be blasted out on the school PA every day. The history of slavery in 3mins how badly the black slaves were treated. Contrary to public opinion THIS IS an anti-slavery song. The best song the Stones ever did.!!!
Y yo que pensaba que hablaba de la eroina, es más los manotazos que da Jagger y las palmadas en sus venas al final creo que tambien va en doble sentido la letra de este sublime rolon! Saludos🤟
First time I've seen this performance! After almost 50 years of first hearing it. I got the single about 1975 after hearing it on the radio. Excellent!
Explains why he’s so slender! Gave himself a great workout every time. I like how at the end he showed that it DID wear him out a little bit. Dogs dogs
geat version. As much as I love Keith and could watch him play all day, I always felt (and even there I feel it) he wasn't as nice as he could have been to Mich Taylor.
the biggest ! .... they were rock, blues, underground, folk at the same time with a unique sound .... they were ahead of the time and they may have influenced all rockers on the planet.
Remember the stalone movie 'NightHawks' and the Brown Sugar scene in the nightclub? That was class and I played that a thousand times!!! I'm 2months before 66yrs in April and I love Metal...but not even the best screamers can top this Jagger strut and swagger that far back and in the now! Just plain Rock and what great articulation and awesomeness!!!Honky Tonk Woman goes great w/this when I was 14. Aloha for this timeless Gem of our Rock generation!!!!
Sad that the Stones continue without Charlie Watts. But that is probably what they even discussed with Charlie, that the band would continue. That said, when either of the remaining two original Stones is gone, that really will be the end of The Rolling Stones. Absolutely no Stones without Mick or Keith, only a solo band with one of them remaining, which we have already seen anyway with The Expensive Winos and Mick's solo band, each promoting their solo LPs. Maybe time for Mick Taylor and/or Bill Wyman to return? I know such would probably never happen, other than guest stints we have already seen,. It is just some wishful thinking. Old age and illness are so cruel, rob us all of greatness, artistically and in our own lives personally. We miss Charlie as we miss our dead friends and relatives who enriched our lives.
My favorite I can't get no "Satisfaction" they played it in my home town years ago at freedom village, n Mississippi, before people were into Rock music, like they were in the eighties and nineties, those poor white boys sang and we danced, a new Era
Ese bailecito 😂😂😂 ..Mick mick mick...Gracias a Dios que aún estas para entre nosotros los vivos y seguir disfrutando de tu Buena Musica ..Larga vida a Mick 👏👏👏
Must admit, not a fan of the Stones, but that was one brilliant performance by Mick and the team. Easy 10/10!
Mick’s vocals are incredible in this version!!!
Better than original!
In the old days, the music union laws forbade lip-syncing and miming... but the bands got around the laws... they often played along to a prerecorded track ( this was usually just the record with the vocals dropped out of the mix... ) then singing live... also they would sometimes drop one instrument, usually the bass or rhythm guitar, and then perform the part live for television...
This is the original recording, with the band miming and Jagger singing live in the studio.
Today impossible !!
The GOOD TIMES are over !!
He was raw and into it wildly then "Hawgh blimey"
Mick was such a badass that he made goofy dancing look cool.
What a great comment because of course it's spot on. LOL.
He is a Stupendous performance artist
😂
Well......
Best version I have ever heard.
Just coming here to type the same thing. At first I thought 'lip synch' but Jagger does a few ad libs and its clearly him singing. I don't know about the rest of the band as there are no improvisations when they play this song, I really wish we could get the definitive answer ! The only reason I wonder about it is that I know they've played a lot of gigs where they were being recorded and its been said, many times/places' that Jagger would sing, live, but the rest of the bands playing was pre recorded. Something to do with the microphones/electronics back in the day having a tough time with recording the drums etc.
@@flynnlizzy5469
For sure only Mick´s vocals are live (and indeed absolutely great!) here, the instrumental music is complete playback!
Just notice at the beginning, the music starts at min 0:09, but Keith starts acting 2 seconds later! And the 2nd guitar riff we hear doesn´t really match to Mick Taylor´s finger movements.
And also the drums don´t match perfectly (at min 1:14 Charlie misses the crash cymbal we hear, at min 1:46 you can clearly see the drums covered with cartonage etc.)
Still this is one of the best versions IMHO so far!
@@SimonFrank369have you got nothing else to do?
@@smc9291 It's pretty obvious for people into music.
@@SimonFrank369 Other than the vocals it's definitely a playback but it's a different mix. Nobody's playing the tamboree and the sax solo is the "exact one" from the original recording... and that ain't Bobby Keys in the video...lol
What a raw vocal performance, just tremendous.
A better vocal than the studio version.
A-game from Jagger
Absolutely killer vocal
@@kaveman1021 it's quite interesting how often that seems to be the case with singers. Sometimes the studio recording just can't do a song justice as good as a live performance can.
I'm aware that the music in this performance is prerecorded but Micks vocals sound a lot grittier here than on the studio version and that is probably the sound he would've preferred according to an interview I saw him do where he said he wasn't completely happy with his performance on this song when the final studio mix came out.
@@kaveman1021 I agree with you. This alternate take or live version (I have yet to figure out which) of "Brown Sugar" in March 1971 on 'Tops of the Pops' is just terrific!
And now, because of capitulation to the Marxist "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) agenda, The Rolling Stones are no longer performing live one of their best, most energetically performed tunes. Things were better when the Stones were equal opportunity offenders and didn't kowtow to political correctness.
Mick is definitely singing live
Not a chance. TOTP made bands record a new unique version to be played on the show, but bands always made to lip synch to that version. Dead giveaway is Charlie’s drum skins. Covered with tampers. London
@@andrewwalker7893 micks vocals are live because mick fucking jagger wanted to sing live, what’s Top of Pops gonna do? kick the stones off the show?
@@andrewwalker7893 Yes, this is correct. Another dead giveaway is how "perfect" the vocal sounds. A little too good to be live.
@@RBLXGaming23 Mick’s vocal is definitely live over the studio version backing track
Mick clearly is singing live. I’m sorry, but it’s obvious
Clearly, everyone is blown away by Mick's vocals. Impeccable. His stage presence is second to none. His moves are perfection. This is EPIC.
i listen to this probably 10 times a day
Live vocals but the backing music was from the recording . Interesting that the saxophonist wasn't on the stage , I guess there wasn't enough room after mick & kieths huge egos . Great stuff tho !
The clarity of that vocal made me feel my young ears again.
i like it better than original- but it could be the freshness of hearing a new take- what a showman
So I take it that you have no rampant hairs growing out of your ears like this here 65 year old ? lol
I absolutely agree. For me, it's interesting to notice how long the /u/ in 'sugar' sounds here (like 'shuuga').
Greatest rhythm guitar in history.
Kieth put the lead in rhythm guitar, fact!
It's great. This is the studio backing track with a totally live vocal from Mick Jagger. The vocals crystal clear, diction spot on, you can make out every word. Actually quite a nice mix. Good visuals too with the rest of the band doing a passable job at miming.
If you look at the Stones' early 1980s videos you see that Mick has no ability to lip sync. That's because he'd never done it. When they filmed all of their 70s videos he was singing live to a backing track. Angie: live singing. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: live singing, etc.
Was the sax live or memorex?
@@LoveBandit1000 all the tracks are from the album except Mick’s vocal.
@@777jones Sax sounded 'Live"
The Drum mim is good
With nothing but respect to Brian Jones (and Ronnie Wood)...THIS is the best Stones lineup by far.
The best albums of the Stones career happened when Brian Jones was catatonic and not playing, when Mick Taylor joined and before Ronnie Wood. Before and after they had great singles but not good albums.
Agree
Agreed!
The Ronnie Wood Lineup are better than both of them!
@@BoynamedMagnus183 you really need to go back and listen to the Taylor era albums.
now THAT ladies and gentlemen IS Rock'n'roll.
Love that "OH blimey" at the end. .. Got to be the greatest rock and roll song ever written .
I think it was a rehearsal for the show - as you can see there is hardly anyone in the studio. As such, it would be daytime and rock musicians usually aren't used to performing (or being awake) that early. Despite that he put everything into it and rather wore himself out!
Dirty, rough, filthy, and wonderful!!!!!!!!!
The absolute King of Rock. A living legend.
This is for me, the official músic video from Brown Sugar .
I remember watching this on Top of the Pops in 1971. A memorable performance from Mick. Been a Stones fan ever since. Rip Charlie Watts he is great on this track.
I also remember watching this on Top of the Pops back in 1971. If I remember rightly the DJ who introduced them (can't remember who it was) said something about Jagger just coming back (from tour? absence? Jail ie drug bust? - I can't remember, but for some reason it stuck in my mind that this was some sort of comeback. I'd love to know if this memory is correct or a mixed up memory if someone could tell me. - btw I was only 12 years old so it is a bit of a blur.)
Even though Mick makes a fool of himself you're with him every step of the way and in turn he becomes the coolest dude on the planet. Brilliant vocal aswell! Love him!!
He originated the Elaine Dance.
At this moment, The Stones were THE BEST ROCK BAND IN THE WORLD!!!!!!
Agreed, very easily.
Mick doing his vocal part live. And he is doing it brilliantly.
The rest of the band is miming along with the studio backtrack.
You can even see at the start of the clip, that Keith is to late pretending
to play his guitar.. the backtrack had already started.
What a performance. Raw and passionate
At the Most
No audience, mimed music, the other band members smirking occasionally at his moves, and yet he still puts in a performance like that. What a star!
The Stones with Mick Taylor, they were Hard Rock and more Guitar Driven. 🎸
They were the next step to rock and roll, reinventing it once again ✌🏻😎
It’s no coincidence that the Best of what the Stones were was with Mick Taylor as their Lead Guitarist
gfern2 is mistaken.
@@ftwins2000 Yes he gave it that jangly blues sound
Definitive version of a great song.
The Stones at the peak of their powers. Fantastic Band.
getting ready for the ‘72 tour of America.
absolutely the best live vocal I've ever heard from Mick....and great performance too. the guitar mix is different on the ride out as well. also apparently some top of the pops coke. i've never seen this before and it's made my fucking day thank you very much. blimey!
pre-recorded backing track, live vocal. Musicians union requirements for televised performance. watch Taylor and Keith - neither one play the lick, just both rhythm.
How come no one shows their tours
Not live
Made your fucking shitty day congrats
A pity there has never been ‘the next Mick Jagger’, but as you see here the uncanny brilliance just can’t be replicated.
watch Stella Street with Phil Cornwell as Mick Jagger - it is sheer excellence and an all time great comedy!
That opening guitar riff has never been duplicated like the brilliant studio version
I like the way Jagger adds a bit of completely new melody to the song. It's the part where he sings "..get down on the ground Brown Sugar" using a sequence of notes and words not included in the studio version.
Yes I love it better than the studio version
Stationed in Scotland at this time and saw this performance on TOTP. I remember being shocked at the line"....get down on your knees"
People who can 🩰 dance can get on their knees and get up and get back down on their knees, have u ever heard of Michael Jackson, watch him on Remember the time, I don't know if the song meant what u r insinuating, but a great song never the less, u just gotta keep your brain clean!!!!!
And some people try and say Freddie is greatest frontman ever 😂 not even second. The best voice in rock n roll around these years and best band.
people are use to the phrase that just because u can play the guitar fast doesn’t mean your the best guitarist, same goes with freddie imo
fuck freddie mercury he's not even close to jagger
Bon Scott is up there. Second only to Mick Jagger.
Not a stones fan, but I remember this as a kid. But when I stumbled across this performance, it blew me away. What a great vocal performance. I like it much better than the studio version.
When people say Liam Gallagher is the best front man just look at this performance. It is superb showmanship!!
Liam Gallagher himself said that Jagger is the best frontman in history.
Liam Gallagher. LMBO.
What people?🤣
Liam Gallagher ain't even the 10th best frontman in rock history.
I love u so much Mick and Kieth. U r the greatest in rock. RIP Charlie.
Hey kids when you do black history month in your schools this song should be blasted out on the school PA every day. The history of slavery in 3mins how badly the black slaves were treated. Contrary to public opinion THIS IS an anti-slavery song. The best song the Stones ever did.!!!
Y yo que pensaba que hablaba de la eroina, es más los manotazos que da Jagger y las palmadas en sus venas al final creo que tambien va en doble sentido la letra de este sublime rolon! Saludos🤟
Mick often used double and even more meanings, best lyricist for me.
It's a shame this song is no longer in the set list. I never thought the Stones would bow to the pc brigade
I know, sucks!
First time I've seen this performance! After almost 50 years of first hearing it. I got the single about 1975 after hearing it on the radio. Excellent!
Them vocals are crisps
Unbelievable,pink jacket,pink flaired trousers and he STILL looks " cool"
Yeah i Love all the outfits and the makeup on jagger. He can wear anything.
Such a good performance by Mick Jagger! Great singing and dance moves! Makes it look easy!
Absolutely, just a stunningly great performance!
Explains why he’s so slender! Gave himself a great workout every time. I like how at the end he showed that it DID wear him out a little bit. Dogs dogs
geat version. As much as I love Keith and could watch him play all day, I always felt (and even there I feel it) he wasn't as nice as he could have been to Mich Taylor.
Tape playing but Mick is live ! Awesome. Quintessential Stones song. Best rock ever short of anything written by Chuck Berry
This is by far, their best song...
Their best at their best.
Pure gold.
the biggest ! .... they were rock, blues, underground, folk at the same time with a unique sound .... they were ahead of the time and they may have influenced all rockers on the planet.
I think this salvaged the entertainment quality of the Q, G, B... probably even L image of that era.
Remember the stalone movie 'NightHawks' and the Brown Sugar scene in the nightclub? That was class and I played that a thousand times!!! I'm 2months before 66yrs in April and I love Metal...but not even the best screamers can top this Jagger strut and swagger that far back and in the now! Just plain Rock and what great articulation and awesomeness!!!Honky Tonk Woman goes great w/this when I was 14. Aloha for this timeless Gem of our Rock generation!!!!
Raw power of The Stones. Can't beat it!
Fantastic song!
What a band!
The only negative thing about this is it doesn't go on long enough.
Holy crap! Yep, best rock n roll band in the world.
That groan at the end - what a finish to a very driven performance !
This really encapsulates why the Stones are the greatest rock and roll band of all time..
RIP to my favorite drummer of all time.
Sad that the Stones continue without Charlie Watts. But that is probably what they even discussed with Charlie, that the band would continue.
That said, when either of the remaining two original Stones is gone, that really will be the end of The Rolling Stones. Absolutely no Stones without Mick or Keith, only a solo band with one of them remaining, which we have already seen anyway with The Expensive Winos and Mick's solo band, each promoting their solo LPs.
Maybe time for Mick Taylor and/or Bill Wyman to return? I know such would probably never happen, other than guest stints we have already seen,. It is just some wishful thinking.
Old age and illness are so cruel, rob us all of greatness, artistically and in our own lives personally. We miss Charlie as we miss our dead friends and relatives who enriched our lives.
Brilliant song, reminds me so much of my school youth club discos when it first came out. It's still in my repertoire at gigs too.
Makes me happy in my ears
Glorious quality!
They still together.
RIP Charlie.
Magnificent...!!
Wow they were cool!! Cabaret now!
I love seeing Chalie Watts there in the back, all calm and relaxed, just doing his thing. Awesome band back then
チャーリーとキース、物凄いグルーブ！もうこれ以上はない神テイク、史上最高のロックンロール！
WHAT A SONG AND GREAT DECADE....
Brilliant :)
And their still ROCKIN N ROLLING, GREAT BAND !
my Dad used to say, "while the Beatles were singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", the Stones were singing "Street Fighin' Man"!
5 years apart.
they weren't
@@evertvdb000 ?
@@wellsy1954 u are right
@@evertvdb000 Thamks
Los stones en su epoca dorada...Jagger que vocales y aptitud.
That’s rock & roll and so is that suit cooler than cool🎸
Still one of the greatest riffs of all time!
Long live Rock & Roll music 🎵🎶
The video quality is great.
oh yeah,yeah,everything'sgonna be allright this morning and the mornings to come,Rolling Stones forever
The best live performance ever on 🔝 Of The Pops
My favorite I can't get no "Satisfaction" they played it in my home town years ago at freedom village, n Mississippi, before people were into Rock music, like they were in the eighties and nineties, those poor white boys sang and we danced, a new Era
the best pre- and post-coital music
Ese bailecito 😂😂😂 ..Mick mick mick...Gracias a Dios que aún estas para entre nosotros los vivos y seguir disfrutando de tu Buena Musica ..Larga vida a Mick 👏👏👏
Yes vocal is live it's beautiful yeaaaaaaah
I had this one on a LP in the 70´s now Have I the song on a cd
Ma che Spettacolo...menomale che esistono brani che potrai ascoltare all'infinito e saranno sempre emozioni concrete su cui contare...
A rock classic that would be canceled today
Not just that one. Sweet Black Angel uses the "N" word. Keep it to yourself though or they'll cancel you for knowing about it.
He sang this to ike and tina before it came out and they thought it was hilarious haha
@@jaredc422 Yeah of course they did, because everyone used to get along fine before the Woke race baiting epidemic started
Was finally cancelled during this 2021 tour.
It did get cancelled today
That time when he sings 'Brown Sugar' and the black piper onscreen, how come it taste good
Absolute class!
RIP, Charlie.
Blew me away was 15
Since 1982 my first album! I 've 39 years listening ,,fantastic band! Yes yes !! Wow!
End:
Mick: "Cor blimey!"
Keith: "Awwwful."
Mick Taylor: Laughs.
Superb ❤
今まで見てきた中で一番の高画質だ、、ありがたい、、
Fat, thick Rock N Roll, with a knowing, fierce master vocal. Put anything on by the Beatles and it just gets flattened by
comparison.
I have never been much of a Beatles fan, especially John Lennon. A fucking hypocrite wife beater and child beater.
!! Qué Gigantesco es este tema es su crudeza y gloria rock and blues rock 5 stings ñopen G stuff...bloody gourgeous!!!
This Is Live At It's BEST 🎤🎸🎷💃💃💃💃💃🎯📣👊🏼
ma jeunesse, une de mes préférées des stones
Nothing better X
Wonderful
En su mejor momento. Versión extraordinaria de la plenitud de la banda.
Damn right it’s offensive and damn right it’s an incredible rock song….one of the best.
Great song
Fantastic
Wow 🎶❤️😍🥰
Awesome Rendition