The new James Brown bio-pic, Get On Up, opens tomorrow. It's getting mixed reviews though I do hear Chadwick Boseman is terrific as JB.
Still, nothing can beat the real Godfather of Soul, especially live and in his prime. A few years ago the famous T.A.M.I. Show was released on DVD. In it Brown steals the spotlight from The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones and others.
Yesterday The New Yorker wrote about this performance, The Possessed: James Brown in Eighteen Minutes. 50 years later, here's the hardest working man in showbiz.
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