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Full Story » 'Godfather Of Soul' James Brown Dies At 73 | Billboard 'Godfather Of Soul' James Brown Dies At 73 12/25/2006 COMMENTS James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early today (Dec. 25), his agent said. James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early today (Dec. 25), his agent said. He was 73. Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. today, said his agent, Frank Copsidas. Longtime friend Charles Bobbit was by his side, he said. Copsidas said the cause of death was uncertain. "We really don't know at this point what he died of," he said. He initially seemed fine at the hospital and even told people that he planned to be on stage in New York on New Year's Eve, Copsidas said.

Along with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and a handful of others, Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. At least one generation idolized him, and sometimes openly copied him. His rapid-footed dancing inspired Mick Jagger andMichael Jackson among others. Songs such asDavid Bowie's "Fame," Prince's "Kiss," George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" and Sly and the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song" were clearly based on Brown's rhythms and vocal style. If Brown's claim to the invention of soul can be challenged by fans of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke, then his rights to the genres of rap, disco and funk are beyond question. He was to rhythm and dance music what Dylan was to lyrics: the unchallenged popular innovator. "James presented obviously the best grooves," rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy once told the Associated Press. "To this day, there has been no one near as funky.

No one's coming even close." His hit singles include such classics as "Out of Sight," "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine," "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud," a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride. "I clearly remember we were calling ourselves colored, and after the song, we were calling ourselves black," Brown said in a 2003 Associated Press interview. "The song showed even people to that day that lyrics and music and a song can change society." He won a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in 1992, as well as Grammys in 1965 for "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (best R&B recording) and for "Living In America" in 1987 (best R&B vocal performance, male.) He was one of the initial artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, along with Presley, Chuck Berry and other founding fathers. He triumphed despite an often unhappy personal life.

Brown, who lived in Beech Island near the Georgia line, spent more than two years in a South Carolina prison for aggravated assault and failing to stop for a police officer. After his release on in 1991, Brown said he wanted to "try to straighten out" rock music. He earned the nickname "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" and often tried to prove it to his fans, said Jay Ross, his lawyer of 15 years. Brown would routinely lose two or three pounds each time he performed and kept his furious concert schedule in his later years even as he fought prostate cancer, Ross said. With his tight pants, shimmering feet, eye makeup and outrageous hair, Brown set the stage for younger stars such as Michael Jackson and Prince. And rap stars of recent years overwhelmingly have borrowed his lyrics via sampling. Brown's work has been replayed by the Fat Boys, Ice-T, Public Enemy and a host of other rappers. "The music out there is only as good as my last record," Brown joked in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Born in poverty in Barnwell, S.C., in 1933, he was abandoned as a 4-year-old to the care of relatives and friends and grew up on the streets of Augusta, Ga., in an "ill-repute area," as he once called it. There he learned to wheel and deal. "I wanted to be somebody," Brown said. By the eighth grade in 1949, Brown had served 3 1/2 years in Alto Reform School near Toccoa, Ga., for breaking into cars. While there, he met Bobby Byrd, whose family took Brown into their home. Byrd also took Brown into his group, the Gospel Starlighters. Soon they changed their name to the Famous Flames and their style to hard R&B. In January 1956, King Records of Cincinnati signed the group, and four months later "Please, Please, Please" was in the R&B top ten. While most of Brown's life was glitz and glitter -- he was the singing preacher in 1980's "The Blues Brothers" -- he was plagued with charges of abusing drugs and alcohol and of hitting his third wife, Adrienne.

In September 1988, Brown, high on PCP and carrying a shotgun, entered an insurance seminar next to his Augusta office. Police said he asked seminar participants if they were using his private restroom. Police chased Brown for a half-hour from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. The chase ended when police shot out the tires of his truck. Brown received a six-year prison sentence. He spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program before being paroled in February 1991. In 2003, the South Carolina parole board granted him a pardon for his crimes in that state. Adrienne Brown died in 1996 in Los Angeles at age 47. She took PCP and several prescription drugs while she had a bad heart and was weak from cosmetic surgery two days earlier, the coroner said. More recently, he married his fourth wife, Tomi Raye Hynie, one of his backup singers. The couple had a son, James Jr. Two years later, Brown spent a week in a private Columbia hospital, recovering from what his agent said was dependency on painkillers.

Brown's attorney, Albert "Buddy" Dallas, said the singer was exhausted from six years of road shows. Brown was performing to the end, and giving back to his community. Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his annual toy giveaway in Augusta, and he planned to perform on New Year's Eve at B.B. King Blues Club in New York. "He was dramatic to the end -- dying on Christmas Day," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a friend of Brown's since 1955. "Almost a dramatic, poetic moment. He'll be all over the news all over the world today. He would have it no other way." Brown is survived by at least four children -- two daughters and sons Daryl and James Brown III. Friends were making flight arrangements to come to Atlanta to determine how to memorialize Brown, Copsidas said. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The Godfather Of Soul - Photo 1 - Pictures - CBS News The Godfather Of Soul Next "Godfather of Soul" James Brown performs during a concert at Yunfeng Theater in Shanghai, China on Feb.

22, 2006. The concert was Brown's first performance in Mainland China. Brown died in the early morning of Dec. 25, 2006, after being hospitalized for pneumonia. Credit: AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko The Rev. Al Sharpton, center right, embraces a man who thanked the reverend, after Sharpton served Christmas meals and remembered singer James Brown on Monday, Dec. 25, 2006, in New York, at the National Action Network, Sharpton's Harlem headquarters. Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Willens James Brown, left, gives a turkey to Billy Jackson, right, at the annual James Brown Turkey Giveaway, Monday, Nov. 21, 2005, in Augusta, Ga. "I like to be paid because I put my my money back in young people and poor people. I'm like a Robin Hood and I thank God, 'cause that's a good feeling when you're doing things for the poor," Brown told the Toronto Sun in November. Credit: AP/ Augusta Chronicle, AD Tucker Music legend James Brown arrives with his wife Tomi Rae Brown for the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in this Feb.

13, 2005 file photo in Los Angeles. Credit: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill James Brown performs on stage during the Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 6, 2005. The concert coincided with the start of the G8 summit held at nearby Gleneagles. Credit: AP Fans sign a poster of James Brown outside B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2006, after word spread that the legendary soul singer had died of heart failure from pneumonia on Christmas day. Brown told friends that he still wanted to perform at the club on New Year's Eve in spite of being ill and in the hospital, but Brown's heart gave out before he could make it there. Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Willens James Brown performs during a Java Jazz Festival concert to benefit tsunami victims in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 4, 2005. Credit: AP James Brown's widow, Tomi Rae Brown, reacts after being denied access to the home she shared with the singer and the couple's 5-year-old son, Monday, Dec.

25, 2006, in Beech Island, S.C. Credit: AP/Augusta Chronicle/R. Ehrhardt Usher and James Brown perform "Caught Up" at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 13, 2005, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Credit: AP The Hollywood Walk of Fame star of James Brown is covered with candles and flowers placed by fans of the "Godfather of Soul," in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Monday, Dec. 25, 2006. Credit: AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian Music legend James Brown arrives for the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, Feb. 13, 2005, in Los Angeles. Credit: AP The "Godfather of Soul" James Brown performs with the "Queen Of Soul," Aretha Franklin, perform at the Taboo night club in Detroit Jan. 11, 1987, for a show which was taped for airing on HBO.

Credit: AP James Brown, his wife Tomi Rae Brown, and son, James Joseph Brown II, pose with Goofy, at Disney World, in Orlando, Fla., May 4, 2003. Brown had six children. Credit: AP/Disney World, Preston Mack James Brown gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 10, 1997. Credit: AP Graphics Bank In a file photo James Brown belts out a song at the rock festival held at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York on Aug. 12, 1972. Credit: AP Photo/Allan Green In a file photo James Brown is shown with his Award of Merit presented at the 19th Annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Jan. 27, 1992. Credit: AP Photo/Craig Moore Hardworking Godfather of Soul - washingtonpost.com washingtonpost.com E-Mail This Article Correction to This Article The Dec. 26 obituary of entertainer James Brown incorrectly said that early in his career he sang in Georgia churches with Bobby Brown. The longtime friend with whom he sang was Bobby Byrd.

Obituaries Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 26, 2006; Page A01 James Brown, the high-energy Godfather of Soul who left his signature beat on funk, R&B, disco and rap and electrified generations with his riveting onstage performances, died early yesterday at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta. He was 73 and had been hospitalized with pneumonia since Sunday. Brown's music transcended generations and musical genres, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing to the present. His sliding, gliding, sweat-breaking dance steps and splits and jumps brought audiences to their feet the world over. With his pompadour, showy outfits and a repertoire of songs that defied inertia, he was a phenomenal performer. Photos James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose revolutionary rhythms, rough voice and flashing footwork influenced generations of musicians from rock to rap, died early Christmas morning. He was 73. Photos A look at the famous faces making headlines in movies, music and more.

Save & Share Article Facebook As one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years, he remained in a rarefied league with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and few others. Brown, also called the "hardest-working man in show business," was a visionary and an innovator who pushed music to new places. He also was a songwriter, bandleader, record producer, philanthropist and civil rights activist. Despite a life plagued with personal problems and run-ins with the law, Brown continued to wow audiences with his throaty vocals and pulsating rhythms. He had planned to appear in New York on New Year's Eve, said his agent, Frank Copsidas. Over the years, Brown sent audiences into states of frenzy when he dramatized his first R&B hit, "Please, Please, Please" (1956), on stage. As a finale, Brown would walk off stage, body bent with fatigue. He would stop, drop to one knee and wait for a band member to drape a cape around his shoulders. As he was being led away, Brown would toss the cape off, run to the microphone and start begging again, "Baby, please don't go, don't go. . . .

I love you so." The audience would go wild as band members wailed on their horns. Jonathan Lethem, writing for Rolling Stone magazine, described watching Brown entertain as a "feast of adoration and astonishment." "For to see James Brown dance and sing, to see him lead his mighty band with the merest glances and tiny flickers of signal from his hands; to see him offer himself to his audience to be adored and enraptured and ravished; to watch him tremble and suffer as he tears his screams and moans of lust, glory and regret from his sweat-drenched body . . . is not to see: It is to behold," Lethem wrote. Brown changed the course of African American music in the 1960s and 1970s, said Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West in their book, "The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country" (2000). "Mr.

Brown, as he likes to be known, rapped and crooned before his time, used vibrant horn, raunchy rock and roll guitar, and driving bass overlaid with a grunting, familiar voice like the sound of a moving train," Gates and West wrote. "His persona prefigured the flamboyance of the disco years, of techno-funk humor, of the era of his royal highness known as Prince." Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger aspired to dance like Brown; Elvis Presley was said to have studied Brown's choreography on film. His signature one-three beat can be heard on music from Ice-T, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy and many others who used the digital technique known as sampling to incorporate Brown's lyrics and rhythms into their own works. His musical legacy includes more than 900 songs, among them: "I Got You ( I Feel Good)" (1965), "Cold Sweat" (1967), "Sex Machine (1970), "Hot Pants" (1971) and "The Payback" (1973).

His "Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1969) became an anthem during the civil rights movement. Brown's live recording at the famed Apollo Theater in October 1962 was considered a pivotal event in his career and was declared one of the greatest 100 moments in rock music in the 1960s by Entertainment Weekly. The recording, which was released three months later, "marked the beginning of Brown's transformation from minor R&B star into soul's greatest bandleader," the magazine said in 1999. The live recording also created a template for Sly Stone and George Clinton to follow. In 1965, Brown's "Pappa's Got a Brand New Bag" won a Grammy for best R&B recording, and in 1987, his "Living in America" single, which is heard in the movie "Rocky IV," received one for best male R&B vocal performance. In 1992, he won a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.

He was one of the initial artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986, along with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino and Buddy Holly. In 2003, he was honored by the John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts. In a statement yesterday, President Bush called Brown "an American original" and noted that his fans came from all walks of life. "For half a century, the innovative talent of the 'Godfather of Soul' enriched our culture and influenced generations of musicians," the president said. Brown recognized his place in history. "Others may have followed in my wake, but I was the one who turned racist minstrelsy into black soul -- and by doing so, became a cultural force," Brown wrote in "I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul" (2004). Early in his life, Brown learned to wrestle success out of adversity. Born James Joe Brown Jr. on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, S.C., he was abandoned by his mother at age 4.

His father took him to Augusta, Ga., where he lived with an aunt who ran a brothel. As a youngster, he picked cotton, worked odd jobs and shined shoes "in order to survive as a little black boy growing up in the South," he once said. "I started shining shoes at 3 cents, then went up to 5 cents, then 6 cents. I never did get up to a dime. I was 9 years old before I got a pair of underwear from a real store; all my clothes were made from sacks and things like that. But I knew I had to make it. I had the determination to go on, and my determination was to be somebody." Dropping out of school by 12 to help support his family, Brown sang and danced for soldiers at nearby Fort Gordon and helped his father wash cars. He also ventured into larceny, breaking and entering and stealing cars, and at 16 spent three years in reform school for his thefts. From 1953 to 1955, he turned to boxing and semiprofessional baseball.

Then with longtime friend Bobby Brown, he sang gospel in churches in Toccoa, Ga., before forming James Brown and the Famous Flames. The group moved to Macon, Ga., and performed during an intermission of a Little Richard show. In 1956, the group, then known as the Flames, cut its first record, "Please, Please, Please," which later became Brown's signature piece. Brown, a driven bandleader and businessman, built a close-knit ensemble of singers, dancers and musicians, numbering 40 members at one point. For decades, he maintained a grueling schedule on the road, selling out theaters along the way. Some say Brown's migration from R&B megastar to cultural icon came in 1968 in the heat of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Preparing for a concert at the Boston Garden, he took to the airwaves and urged viewers not to dishonor King's memory by turning to violence. He continued his message of self-reliance and education in songs such as "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)." He traveled to Vietnam to perform for U.S.

troops, spoke out about the importance of job opportunities and surprised and angered some by endorsing Richard M. Nixon for president in 1968. As a businessman, he once owned James Brown Productions, three recording companies, two real estate concerns, several radio stations and publishing companies before falling into trouble with the Internal Revenue Service in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, as he began to make a musical comeback, other problems got in the way. Among them were drug and alcohol abuse and charges of hitting his third wife, Adrienne. In 1988, he was high on PCP and carrying a shotgun when he entered an insurance seminar next to his Augusta office. He then led police on a half-hour chase from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. Police had to shoot out the tires of his truck. Brown received a six-year prison sentence and spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison before being paroled in February 1991. In 2003, the South Carolina parole board granted him a pardon for his crimes in that state. His marriages to Velma Brown and Deidre Brown ended in divorce.

Adrienne Brown died in 1996. A son died in 1973. In 2002, he married his fourth wife, Tomi Rae Hynie, one of his backup singers. The couple had a son, James Jr. Brown is survived by at least four children. Al Sharpton, who traveled with Brown in the 1970s and likened him to a father, said Brown took soul music and made it "world music." "What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music," Sharpton said yesterday. "This is a guy who literally changed the music industry. He put everybody on a different beat, a different style of music. He pioneered it." Godfather of Soul - James Brown | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Godfather of Soul google+ AllMusic Review by Jason Birchmeier A budget-line two-fer featuring two of James Brown 's live performances from the 1980s, Goldenlane's Godfather of Soul release is as generic as its title, if not more so.

The '80s weren't the best of times for Brown , and it doesn't help that the two live recordings here -- a CD titled "Live in New York (1980)" and a DVD titled "Live at Castain Park (1985)," both hourlong shows featuring essentially the same set list -- are totally uneventful. Granted, it's impressive that Brown was still out there performing in the '80s, which was his fourth decade on-stage. He's still energetic and full of life here, for sure. However, he's all show biz at this late point, performing many of his greatest hits with a faceless backing band that seems well rehearsed yet showcases little creative spark. To make matters worse, the live CD recording is edited so that the tracks fade in and out, and the DVD consists mainly of a single camera focused on Brown exclusively, with an occasional shot of the entire band. All of this leaves room for few surprises. In fact, the biggest surprise is liable to be how lackluster this two-disc package actually is -- not only is the musical and video content dull, the packaging is dull too, providing no context whatsoever for these latter-day recordings.

This Goldenlane two-fer ultimately has little to no appeal. Not even collectors or completists will find much value here. After all, there's more than enough James Brown out there to feast your ears and eyes upon, and if indeed you're looking for live performances, you'll want to find ones that predate these by a good decade or so (the mid-'70s are a good marker for when Brown lost his edge, retreating downhill to the oldies circuit). Track Listing

Question: Who is the “Godfather of Soul”?
Answer: James Brown