The hardest working man
Subtitle: how James Brown saved the soul of America : live at the Boston Garden, 1968
By: James Sullivan.
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781592403905
Subjects: Brown, James, -- 1933-2006; Soul musicians -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: The story of the night James Brown kept the peace in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and delivered hope with an immortal performance. In the hours after King's death, Brown's concert at Boston Garden was slated for cancellation as police geared up for riots. After Brown butted heads with the mayor, the show was allowed to go on--and his emotional, electric performance was broadcast live on local television. Though rioting erupted in more than a hundred U.S. cities that night, Boston remained quiet. Not only bringing to life that transforming show, author Sullivan also charts Brown's incredible rise from poverty to self-made millionaire, making this book both a tribute to an unforgettable concert and a rousing biography of a revolutionary musician.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Lost someone; title: Bewildered; title: Think; title: Bring it up; title: Try me; title: Cold sweat; title: Soul power, pt. 1.; title: Things got to get better; title: Get it together; title: It's a new day; title: It's too funky in here; title: Reality; title: Unity, pt. 1.