James Brown: sometimes, it takes an addict.
Sometimes, it takes an addict:
Blues, R & B and gospel singer James Brown, dead of congestive heart failure at age 73. Brown's influence in music was breathtaking. He was variously described as the "Godfather of Disco,"the "Godfather of Rap,"the "Godfather of Funk"and a "firebrand in the black rights movement,"credited by some (including himself) with pushing African-Americans to move from the self-descriptor "Negro"to "Black"as a result of his 1968 anthem, "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)."Some music critics state that without Brown, there could have been no Prince, no Michael Jackson and no Miles Davis. Along with Elvis Presley, Ray Charles and Chuck Berry, he was among the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in ...
