James Brown couldn’t read music, and neither could Hammond. Both worked by feel, and belief, and both clearly got intense when they sensed they were onto something. Hammond debuted his first ...

Smith, whose first book, The Great Black Way ... As they paraded down the Champs-Élysées, they played just one artist: James Brown. He died in 2006. The imperatives of biography are to record ...

James Brown set the standard for dynamic live performance in American music. Inspired by preachers in the Black church, Brown started out singing in gospel quartets. As the "Godfather of Soul," he ...

"And he played at a time when defenses were set against the run first and the pass second," said Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers. And football might not have been Brown's best sport.

Back in 2005, Bass Player corralled Bootsy Collins, Fred Thomas, and Ray Brundidge, to dig into what it really meant to be a ...

James Brown has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows. What was James Brown's first West End show? James Brown's first West End show was The Phantom of the Opera which opened in 2021 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When discussing the foundations of modern music, James Brown is a name that cannot be ignored. Known as the ...

James Brown told me one time that it’s 75 percent ... But man wasn’t the first: Funk was the first thing. Funk is making something out of nothing. On your 1977 song “The Pinocchio Theory ...

THE ONE. James Brown was obsessed with The One. It signified the first and over-emphasised beat of the 4/4 rhythm of funk, the music that Brown and his band spawned between 1965’s “Papa’s ...