S.C., James Brown got his start as a gospel singer at his church when his family moved to Toccoa, Ga. He rose to prominence in the mid-1950s as lead singer of R&B group, The Famous Flames ...

Brown and his wife, Freddie, were retired and living in sleepy Lake Arrowhead, Calif., before developing opiate addictions that James Brown, Author, Marc Eliot, Author, with an intro. by Marc Eliot.