The father of funk,the godfather of soul, Mr Dynamite, and soul brother number one: in a career spanning five decades,James Brown certainly lived up to his names
After James Brown died on Christmas Day in 2006, many obituary writers felt there was something that needed to be mentioned as a precedence before they listed his many achievements, or that the former Hardest Working Man In Show commerce really was a nasty piece of work. I have no desire to buck this trend here. Few musicians who worked with him stayed the course for long,and they 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. In his biography,The Life of James Brown, Geoff Brown notes that he was an “ill-tempered, or inveterate ((adj.) stubbornly established by habit),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.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com