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Associated Press

Legendary Singer James Brown Dies at 73

By GREG BLUESTEIN 12.25.06, 4:48 AM ET

James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73.

Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. Monday, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. Longtime friend Charles Bobbit was by his side, he said.

Copsidas said the cause of death was uncertain. "We really don't know at this point what he died of," he said.

Pete Allman, a radio personality in Las Vegas who had been friends with Brown for 15 years, credited Brown with jump-starting his career and motivating him personally and professionally.

"He was a very positive person. There was no question he was the hardest working man in show business," Allman said. "I remember Mr. Brown as someone who always motivated me, got me reading the Bible."

Along with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and a handful of others, Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. At least one generation idolized him, and sometimes openly copied him. His rapid-footed dancing inspired Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson among others. Songs such as David Bowie's "Fame," Prince's "Kiss," George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" and Sly and the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song" were clearly based on Brown's rhythms and vocal style.

If Brown's claim to the invention of soul can be challenged by fans of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke, then his rights to the genres of rap, disco and funk are beyond question. He was to rhythm and dance music what Dylan was to lyrics: the unchallenged popular innovator.

"James presented obviously the best grooves," rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy once told The Associated Press. "To this day, there has been no one near as funky. No one's coming even close."

His hit singles include such classics as "Out of Sight," "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine," "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud," a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride.

"I clearly remember we were calling ourselves colored, and after the song, we were calling ourselves black," Brown said in a 2003 Associated Press interview. "The song showed even people to that day that lyrics and music and a song can change society."

He won a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in 1992, as well as Grammys in 1965 for "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (best R&B recording) and for "Living In America" in 1987 (best R&B vocal performance, male.) He was one of the initial artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, along with Presley, Chuck Berry and other founding fathers.

He triumphed despite an often unhappy personal life. Brown, who lived in Beech Island near the Georgia line, spent more than two years in a South Carolina prison for aggravated assault and failing to stop for a police officer. After his release on in 1991, Brown said he wanted to "try to straighten out" rock music.

From the 1950s, when Brown had his first R&B hit, "Please, Please, Please" in 1956, through the mid-1970s, Brown went on a frenzy of cross-country tours, concerts and new songs. He earned the nickname "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business."

With his tight pants, shimmering feet, eye makeup and outrageous hair, Brown set the stage for younger stars such as Michael Jackson and Prince.

In 1986, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And rap stars of recent years overwhelmingly have borrowed his lyrics with a digital technique called sampling.

Brown's work has been replayed by the Fat Boys, Ice-T, Public Enemy and a host of other rappers. "The music out there is only as good as my last record," Brown joked in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me," he told the AP in 2003.

Born in poverty in Barnwell, S.C., in 1933, he was abandoned as a 4-year-old to the care of relatives and friends and grew up on the streets of Augusta, Ga., in an "ill-repute area," as he once called it. There he learned to wheel and deal.

"I wanted to be somebody," Brown said.

By the eighth grade in 1949, Brown had served 3 1/2 years in Alto Reform School near Toccoa, Ga., for breaking into cars.

While there, he met Bobby Byrd, whose family took Brown into their home. Byrd also took Brown into his group, the Gospel Starlighters. Soon they changed their name to the Famous Flames and their style to hard R&B.

In January 1956, King Records of Cincinnati signed the group, and four months later "Please, Please, Please" was in the R&B Top Ten.

While most of Brown's life was glitz and glitter, he was plagued with charges of abusing drugs and alcohol and of hitting his third wife, Adrienne.

In September 1988, Brown, high on PCP and carrying a shotgun, entered an insurance seminar next to his Augusta office. Police said he asked seminar participants if they were using his private restroom.

Police chased Brown for a half-hour from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. The chase ended when police shot out the tires of his truck.

Brown received a six-year prison sentence. He spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program before being paroled in February 1991. In 2003, the South Carolina parole board granted him a pardon for his crimes in that state.

Soon after his release, Brown was on stage again with an audience that included millions of cable television viewers nationwide who watched the three-hour, pay-per-view concert at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

Adrienne Brown died in 1996 in Los Angeles at age 47. She took PCP and several prescription drugs while she had a bad heart and was weak from cosmetic surgery two days earlier, the coroner said.

More recently, he married his fourth wife, Tomi Raye Hynie, one of his backup singers. The couple had a son, James Jr.

Two years later, Brown spent a week in a private Columbia hospital, recovering from what his agent said was dependency on painkillers. Brown's attorney, Albert "Buddy" Dallas, said singer was exhausted from six years of road shows.

Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed

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Remarquez, maintenant on a la réponse! :icon_up:

4femmes, c'est un taux de mauvais caractère qu'un homme doit avoir du mal à gérer durant une vie!

Quelques regrets de ne pas avoir pu le connaitre à sa grande époque.

RIP comme dirait le sous commandant

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Bof. L'homme d'une chanson.

Rhââââ, rien qu'en voyant qu'il avait été le dernier à répondre à ce fil je savais que j'allais découvrir une horreur !

Pourquoi je t'apprécie tant moi ? C'est un des mystères les plus insondables de l'univers, franchement.

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Je maintiens. Il n'arrive pas à la cheville (en restant simplement dans les chanteurs noirs de l'époque) d'un Barry White ou d'un Marvin Gaye. Mais je reconnais qu'il n'est pas aussi mauvais qu'Isaac Hayes. Disons qu'il est aussi grand que le fut Billy Paul.

Je sais pourquoi il ne nous a jamais invité dans ses campagnes : y crèche à Fond'Roy.

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Barry White? Par rapport à James Brown?

Tu es définitivement bizarre.

Vu ses goûts cinématographiques cela ne m'étonne pas du tout. Mais je pense que c'est plutôt une question de culture. Gadrel ne peut pas aimer ce qu'il ne connaît pas et ce qu'il ne comprend pas.

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En tant que chanteur, Brown était plutôt bon et en tant que compositeur/musicien, il reste une pierre d'angle pour le funk et la soul. Barry White est un excellent chanteur (mais pas un compositeur) et Hayes est un bon compositeur. Il est assez difficile de trouver un mélange qui fut aussi détonnant que J Brown…

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En tant que chanteur, Brown était plutôt bon et en tant que compositeur/musicien, il reste une pierre d'angle pour le funk et la soul. Barry White est un excellent chanteur (mais pas un compositeur) et Hayes est un bon compositeur. Il est assez difficile de trouver un mélange qui fut aussi détonnant que J Brown…

Seul des Otis Redding ou des Ray Charles peuvent rivaliser avec un James Brown.

:doigt:

Tiens, j'attends toujours ton argumentation sur ce qui fait d'Oktyabr un chef-d'oeuvre, coco.

Je l'ai déjà expliqué, coco. Et puis personnellement j'ai parlé de Potemkin et d'Ivan le Terrible mais jamais d'October. Moi j'attends toujours que vous déclariez "je n'aime pas les films d'Eisenstein" plutôt que "Eisenstein c'est nul". :icon_up:

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C'est vrai quoi, il n'a jamais été qu'un des plus grands contributeurs au disco, à la funk et au hip hop (sans parler de la soul bien sur). Quel naze! :icon_up:

Quand on pense que si ça se trouve, il aurait fait un plombier tout à fait décent !

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Ceci dit, vu ses tenues à paillettes et ses gilets montrant son torse nu, je ne suis pas certain que "décent" soit le mot qui convienne.

Ah, mais avec ces tenues, il aurait certainement eu le droit - de temps en temps - à un joli pourboire.

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Pour ce que j'en connais : consommateur de drogues et détenteur d'armes… pas de quoi heurter un libéral.

Un peu de violence conjugale aussi, semble-t-il.

Je ne peux pas prétendre bien connaître son oeuvre, mais le plus frappant restera sans doute l'énergie qu'il dégageait sur scène (d'où son surnom "Mr Dynamite").

James Brown ou Barry White? Les deux mon capitaine. L'énergie de Brown ou le kitsch sévérement burné de White, c'est selon la circonstance.

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Spike Lee réalisera un film sur James Brown ! - 30/12/2006 @ 21h47

Le réalisateur américain Spike Lee réalisera un long métrage sur la vie de James Brown, décédé ce dimanche à l'âge de 73 ans. Tournage prévu en 2008.

Hollywood ne perd pas de temps. Le chanteur américain James Brown voit le projet de sa biographie filmée officiellement lancée, deux jours seulement après sa disparition ce 25 décembre, à l'âge de 73 ans. C'est le réalisateur Spike Lee qui signera le biopic sur la vie de Mister Dynamite pour le compte des studios Paramount et Imagine Entertainment, avec un début de tournage prévu en 2008. Il apportera lui-même sa touche au script originel de Steven Baigelman, récemment retouché par Jez and John Butterworth.

Le "showman ultime" sur grand écran

Le biopic sur la vie de James Brown était en développement depuis de nombreux mois, le chanteur étant lui-même activement impliqué dans sa confection. Paramount et Imagine Entertainment, avec l'autorisation de The Sex Machine, ont acquis les droits de l'intégralité de son catalogue musical. Brian Grazer, d'Imagine Entertainment, déclarait ce mardi : "Comme tout le monde, j'ai été très surpris et attristé par la mort de James Brown. L'ayant très bien connu, après avoir passé beaucoup de temps avec lui et après avoir effectué beaucoup de recherches sur sa vie, je peux dire que ce n'est finalement pas très surprenant qu'il nous quitte le jour de Noël. C'était le showman ultime, et il l'a été jusqu'au bout."

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