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 ...

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Clyde Stubblefield was the man who played drums with James ... Brown bandmate, trombonist Fred Wesley, he released Funk For Your Ass. “People use my drum patterns on a lot of these songs ...

The One: The Life and Music of James ... plaintive songs like “Please, Please, Please,” and, later, in funk-infused tunes like “Get Up (I Feel Like Being) a Sex Machine,” Brown’s music ...

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

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James Brown ... in multiples: Brown boasted of the Lear jets and furs and radio stations he owned, how in a year he would perform more than 600 hours onstage, play more than 960 songs on at ...

James Brown had a way of reminding us to take pride in our Blackness. We can use some of that today. As an international music icon, James Brown emerged as one of the founding fathers of funk with a ...

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 ...

LeBron’s fans have put AI to good use and are generating ‘LeBron James songs’ with the help of deepfake and AI. James even said on Monday that he was aware of the songs after his youngest ...