In 1968, The Rolling Stones took a trip to Brazil and returned with a song that has been streamed 267,000,000 times

The Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” grew out of a Christmas trip Mick Jagger and Keith Richards took to Brazil in 1968. The song’s country and western character shows how travel and unexpected surroundings could shape the band’s music, and it remains one of their enduring hits.

Richards recalled that the pair found the Brazilian setting reminiscent of an Arizona ranch and began thinking about cowboy songs, including the music of Hank Williams. He said he wrote “Honky Tonk Women” there as “sort of a Hank Williams tune”; a country-blues reworking, “Country Honk”, later appeared on the 1969 album *Let It Bleed*. The article says the song has been streamed 267 million times.