The Night James Brown Saved Boston

 The Night James Brown Saved Boston

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''For other people named James Brown, see James Brown (disambiguation). '' James Joseph Brown, Jr.   (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American recording artist and musician. One of the founding fathers of funk music and a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance, he is often referred to as "The Godfather of Soul". In a career that spanned six decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres.[2 ]

Born in Barnwell, South Carolina, Brown moved to Augusta, Georgia, to live with relatives at the age of four. After a stint in prison for robbery, Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. Joining an R&B vocal group called the Avons that later evolved to become The Famous Flames, Brown served as the group's lead singer.[3 ][4 ] Coming to national public attention with the late 1950sballads "Please, Please, Please" and "Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a tireless live performer with The Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. Brown's success peaked in the 1960swith the live album, Live at the Apollo, and hit singles such as "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World". During the late 1960s, Brown moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making that influenced the development of funk music.[5 ] By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of The JB's with records such as "(Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" and "The Payback". Brown also became notable for songs of social commentary including the 1968 hit, "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud". Brown continued to perform and record for the duration of his life and died in 2006 from congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

Brown holds the record as the artist to have charted the most singles on the  Billboard <span style="color:rgb(11,0,128);">  Hot 100 without ever hitting number-one on that chart.[6 ][7 ] In spite of this, however, Brown recorded seventeen number-one singles on the R&B charts. Brown was honored by many institutions including inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame.[8 ] Brown is ranked seventh on themusic magazine Rolling Stone's list of its 100 greatest artists of all time.[9 ]

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==<span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">{C} == = Boston ’s Soul Savior = <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Aug 1, 2008 8:00 PM EDT ==A new DVD set captures James Brown at his peak—including his historic MLK memorial concert.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">  <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#363636"> == <p style="margin:0in0in15pt;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#333333">The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, and on the weekend that followed riots and civil unrest ripped through more than 100 American cities and towns. Washington, D.C., Chicago, Louisville, Baltimore and Detroit all burned. But Boston, itself a racial powder keg waiting for the right match, remained comparatively quiet. For that the city can thank Mr. Dynamite himself, the Godfather of Soul. James Brown's Boston Garden concert, which he reluctantly agreed to have broadcast live—worried he'd take a financial bath—channeled people's rage and sadness into a transcendent celebration of black pride, resilience and the power of soul. As other cities descended into bedlam, Boston walked up to the edge of the abyss, jumped back and kissed itself. During the concert's feverish climax, young fans began leaping onto the stage. A white cop pushed a young black man back into the audience. More kids rushed up and engulfed Brown; more cops edged onto the stage. Brown stopped the music, ordered the police to back off and pleaded with the crowd: "We are black! Don't make us all look bad! Let me finish the show … Come off the stage … You're not being fair to yourself, me neither, or your race."

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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">James Brown's estate has teamed with Shout! Factory to launch a website <span style="color:rgb(0,51,102);">and YouTube page for the late R&B singer, marking the 45th anniversary of the concert he performed in Boston after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Brown played the old Boston Garden on April 5th, 1968, the day after King was shot and killed in Memphis. As featured in RollingStone.com editor James Sullivan's book The Hardest Working Man, the show is credited with helping to hold the city together and prevent rioting in response to the killing, and Brown tore into a powerful set that's still deeply revered. Check out the introduction clip, and visit the YouTube page and website for more of Brown's performances, along with interviews and special retrospective segments.

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