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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Gazoo on December 25, 2006, 01:04:02 AM

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: Gazoo on December 25, 2006, 01:04:02 AM

Someone had to say it.

Thanks for everything, Minister of New New Super Heavy Funk.  I'm genuinely sorry you didn't get to enjoy a last Christmas.

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: princessofcairo on December 25, 2006, 11:23:03 AM

damn! just feels weird - a world without james brown.

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: princessofcairo on December 25, 2006, 11:24:33 AM

what if i start clapping on the one and the three?

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: RGMike on December 25, 2006, 02:33:03 PM

Oh. My. GOD(father).

Words fail me.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/25/entertainment/e103545S46.DTL

and on Christmas, no less.

(http://www.musicchannel.cc/images/155245,bild,0,0,284.jpg)

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: RGMike on December 25, 2006, 03:14:44 PM

Soul Brother Number One
Mr. Dynamite
The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business
Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk
Mr. Please Please Please
The Man With The Crown, James Brown
The Godfather of Soul

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: RGMike on December 28, 2006, 03:50:08 PM

OK, a bit ghoulish, but how many people get photographed in a gold coffin?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2006/12/28/national/a093211S39.DTL&o=0

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: RGMike on December 30, 2006, 06:46:09 PM

No truth to the rumor his final CD will be James Brown Dead at the Apollo...

Title: James Brown is dead.
Post by: urth on January 09, 2007, 07:09:07 PM

James Brown's body lies a-mouldrin' in his house...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/09/entertainment/e180317S17.DTL

And now the real fireworks begin...with the heirs and their attorneys holding the matches.