He entered this world in a one-room tin shack, outside Barnwell, South Carolina, on. Perhaps one could make a posthumous defence for Brown’s behaviour based on biographical facts. In his biography, The Life of James Brown, Geoff Brown notes that he was an “ill-tempered, inveterate, emotional and physical scrapper” before adding: “A list of people physically assaulted by him would not be a short one, nor would it be restricted to the male of the species.”įew musicians who worked with him stayed the course for long and sometimes parted ways with him acrimoniously Some left his employ feeling he had ripped off their ideas, not credited them fully for their work, or owing them money. Few musicians who worked with him stayed the course for long, and they sometimes parted ways with him acrimoniously. I have no desire to buck this trend here. After James Brown died on Christmas Day in 2006, many obituary writers felt there was something that needed to be mentioned as a priority before they listed his many achievements, that the former Hardest Working Man In Show Business really was a nasty piece of work.
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