Conversation so far:
What happened in The Famous Flames' decline?
Dissension grew throughout 1966 and 1967, in 1968 the rest of the members of the Famous Flames,decided to go on with their own separate careers, and the group quietly disappeared
When did the dissessnion begin to occur among The Famous Flames members?
In 1964,when the Flames where still together, James Brown and Bobby Byrd formed their own production company, Fair Deal, in an attempt to promote their recordings to a crossover audience.

Question: What was Brown's ascension?
Self-contained rewrite: What was James Brown's ascension outside of The Famous Flames?