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Radical Discipline
J.B. bio gets on The One Of course James Brown’s 1986 autobiography, The Godfather of Soul, begins outrageously: “I wasn’t supposed to be alive…I was a stillborn kid.” It’s a contradiction and a medical impossibility, but no bother. When Brown died on Christmas Day 2006, aged 73, he’d played more than 80 shows in the...
You Wanted a Hit: Nile Rodgers gets literary
As pop musicians from Keith Richards to Prodigy have published their life stories in the last few years, the timing couldn’t be better for Le Freak, the recently released autobiography of bajillion-selling guitarist/producer Nile Rodgers. Considering that his career encompasses both a stint in the Apollo Theater’s house band and compositions that have inspired countless...
Crowd Pleaser
For all Martin Luther King, Jr. articles, please go to: Belief with Wings I Have a Nightmare Virtual Deity Crowd Pleaser Stone Cold By midafternoon on Oct. 15, the crowd around the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was reaching its height. The sun was aloft, the air was chilled just so and the terrace was...
