You can not tell what the music industry would be sounding like without his presence and effort.

He gave his last performances all the way to the end, and he was suppose to play at B.B King's Nightclub in New York the following week. As i write this, it is still unbelievable for me to think that this legend is no longer with us, given the fact how energic he still was at age 73. At 25th December 2006, James Brown took his last three long breaths and went away. Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000.Ī giant has fallen. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 (Performer). It is the only gold-certified (500,000 copies sold) album of his career.ġ984: Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa teams up with Brown to record the anthemic single 'Unity'.ġ986: 'Living In America', the theme song from Rocky IV, reaches #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, becoming Brown's biggest pop hit since 'I Got You (I Feel Good)' went to #3 in 1965.ġ992: Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th annual Grammy Awards.Ģ006: Hospitalized with pneumonia, dying on Christmas Day. Released that summer, it tops the R&B chart for eight weeks and even cracks the pop Top Ten.ġ971: Signs with Polydor Records, for which he recorded extensively throughout the decade.ġ974: The Payback, the most successful of James Brown's Seventies albums-many of which were double-LPs with lengthy, extended tracks-makes its debut on Billboard's album chart. It was the best-selling R&B single of 1958, and the first of 17 chart-topping R&B singles by Brown over the next two decades.ġ965: Records 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag', a revolutionary single that ushers in a whole new era of soul music. In 1958 James Brown's first #1 hit, 'Try Me', is released.

In 1955 The Famous Flames record 'Please Please Please' at the studio of WIBB in Macon, Georgia.

As Brown became the focal point of the act, the group changed its name to 'The Famous Flames' and its focus from gospel to R&B. Previously worked as a shoe shiner, car washer & a cotton picker.ġ950s: Joined the Gospel Starlighters in 1953, a vocal quartet led by Bobby Byrd, after completing a four-year stint in prison for robbery. James Brown was raised in poverty in Augusta, Georgia. American singer, songwriter, and musician.īorn: near Barnwell, South Carolina, USA.ĭied: 25 December 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (aged 73).

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