Turn the telly on to see the news on this christmas morning and was greeted by the news James Brown has passed away.

Love him or not theres no denying his contribution to Soul Music, it will be a funky time in heaven from now on.

Rest in peace sir

BH

Witnessed James Brown at the Albert Hall in London, during the late 60's,with Bootsy Collins playing bass for him at the tender age of 18!.Also saw him at 'Ready Steady Go',phenomenal performer and will be sadly missed. R.I.P Funk Soul Brother

Dr Bob J

Sad news

Have just played 'How Long' off his 92 album 'Universal James' a great modern dancer.

Pete

Just having a quiet moment,sat in the study on my own,no sounds from anyplace..Will spend a few mins to pay the man my respect..

"Dont take your love away from me"..

little stevie x

R.I.P

Hi Manus, you are right on there mate. the man was a legend.Hope you are keeping well. Have a great xmas. see you out in Brighton sometime.

merry xmas to you and your clan.

Hello Andrew

Have a great Xmas and New Year

All the best

Manus

Sad sad sad sad sad sad

Turned on the radio while I was cooking Xmas lunch to hear that my hero had died. The world needs big people like James Brown. I know that the rare soul scene is much more about the little people, forgotten & overlooked nuggets of occasional brilliance. But people like Mr Brown who actually did make it, and recorded brilliant record after brilliant record that actually got played, made soul and funk accessible and turned on people like me, a white boy in Nortern England, to the greatest music of all.

Godfather of Soul, James Brown - The Creator, you may be dead but your music lives & you in it.

I was and still am deeply saddened...I had planned to see him live at B.B. Kings in NYC for New Years...

RIP James, what a soul legend. i have always said to people that he was a funk master some of the stuff was classic.

Sad when anyone passes away including Charlie Drake

I saw a documentary about Brown some years ago

Did he not go to prison acouple of times for some violent act or was it tax evasion? just that someone else has said he spoke to locals who said he was down to earth!

On the music front very talented- reminds me of youth club days hearing sex machine , honky tonk but my favourite has to be "I lost someone" from the Hell album - Absolute class

Sad when anyone passes away including Charlie Drake

I saw a documentary about Brown some years ago

Did he not go to prison acouple of times for some violent act or was it tax evasion? just that someone else has said he spoke to locals who said he was down to earth!

On the music front very talented- reminds me of youth club days hearing sex machine , honky tonk but my favourite has to be "I lost someone" from the Hell album - Absolute class

He was arrested a couple of times according to the Wiki:

"Brown's personal life was marked by several brushes with the law. At the age of 16, was arrested for theft and served 3 years in prison. Adrienne Rodriegues, his third wife, had him arrested four times on charges of assault between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Brown also served 2 years of a 6 year jail sentence after he led police on a car chase across the Georgia-South Carolina border in 1988. He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and assaulting a police officer, along with various drug-related and driving offenses."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown

I can't find it, but I am pretty sure he was pardoned for that 1988 conviction.

Edited December 29, 200618 yr by Lady Maverick

Watching the news last night drove it home how much he is still respected, his body was in the Apollo - very fitting! - and people had been queuing all night to pay their respects for the last time to this great Soul legend.

Rest in peace James and keep it funky!

Ste.

jesse jackson said

JB had allways a sense of drama even when it's about what date to die.

i've got so many cd's of james brown i can't tell,i'm not talking about the "living in america"stuff.

i'm talking about his very groovy 70's funk he did with the JB's!

he invented funk,his influence is still very present even now in dance music.

strange thing is on the day he died i was in my local pub(italian cafetaria)we were drinking cappuchino and just talking about stuff,suddenly someone talks about some song on the radio(not james brown)there we go off talking about music,and there we generally dont talk about music at all,with us sits a guy who'm i allways meet there,i really didn't know what taste he got musically,suddenly he starts talking about his favorite music beeing james brown

so we talk about james brown a bit not knowing he will die or died that same moment.

so i come home check out the early news and there it was!!!

james brown died today

very strange coincidense

this is my favorite JAMES BROWN album!

well maybe we can post some Northern soul tunes or tunes played out at events by James Brown i can't post as not sure of any i would have said I Feel good