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The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights several great and culturally seismic tracks from the year's biggest ...

In early, plaintive songs like “Please ... As they paraded down the Champs-Élysées, they played just one artist: James Brown. He died in 2006. The imperatives of biography are to record ...

What songs are currently trending online ... Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell James Brown’s seminal “Get Up Offa That Thing” vigorously urges listeners to “dance ‘til ...

The Godfather of Soul’s politics were a reflection of himself: a Black man who’d risen to superstardom out of the Jim Crow South. James Brown was the summation of Black American culture in ...

Top songs that are turning 60 years old in 2025 No. 10 - "I Fought the Law"- Bobby Fuller Four. Initially recorded by the C ...

He represented artists ranging from James Brown and Willie Nelson to Michael Jackson and Sen. Orrin Hatch over the years, and oversaw the $300 million purchase of Big Machine Records by Scooter ...

As a music journalist, I’ve often asked multiple artists, “If you could see one gig from any artist in history, who would it be?” Of all the musicians to be named, James Brown tops the list ...

James Brown always knew his measure ... how in a year he would perform more than 600 hours onstage, play more than 960 songs on at least eight instruments. And yet, there was one thing that ...