Happy Face 29 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 You wake up Christmas morning full of festive spirit only to hear the news that a legend has died. Kept performing to the end. Hardest working man in showbiz. RIP Gutted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Not feeling so good now eh ? RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 25, 2006 Author Share Posted December 25, 2006 On Friday he was at his annual toy giveaway. Went to a dentist who told him he had pneumonia. That's some hard dude coping with man-flu so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 nutter tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 One of the best acts I've ever seen live. Put on a show. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 hios whole life and being was "putting on a show for the paying audience - even if they only paid 5 cents to see him THEY were importnat" and he was bloody good as well of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Toplass-101 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Aww thats sad. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Sad news I was just thinking about him yesterday, for some strange reason. I had planned to ask mrs hips if she could look out for some J.B. Greates Hits cd's. He couldn't half move, dat maan. I would think even better than me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 What a massive legend, we were just talking about him at the pub last night as well - at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam my boyfriend took his photo with James Brown and one of his mates was thick enough to believe it was actually James Brown. Cancel Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Wow... Bless him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 I used to like that James Brown is dead dance track don't imagine it will be get an airing at this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 This is just the kind of happy, cheery news you want to read on christmas day... R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47084 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 The thread title should clearly be James Brown Bread. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 26, 2006 Author Share Posted December 26, 2006 The thread title should clearly be James Brown Bread. RIP. I saw him live in Manchester before the Chili Peppers a few years back. The bloke was awesome. Blew the chili's away. Live at the apollo was a masterpiece, but I think the 1970 Live 'Sex Machine' album is just as good. He might have spent the last 30 years touring the same songs, but those songs are so strong and his performances so fresh that it was always good value, (I know there's some Stones fans on here who might not like the comparison but) you don't feel the same way about the stones. Brown spent his money on angel dust and fines, pissed it up the wall on pcp and guns, Jagger put his in off-shore accounts. Brown 'the man' had soul, not just the performer, he beat his wife and fought alcoholism, but I still like the bloke in spite of those faults, the kind of soul the stones tried to capture when the copied black music from the start, but could never replicate. It was sad to see Steve Irwin, Alan Freeman, Robert Altman, Puskas, Palance, Paul Hunter, Barrett, Billy Preston, Floyd Patterson and probably others I've missed die this year, but (as some of my rather offensive responses in their death threads might have indicated) I was suprised by some of the overreactions to the news. Personally, none of those saddened me like soul brother number one dying, the one man out of all those who I think stands out and can truly be called a legend. I think there's only Cliff Richard and Bob Dylan left vying for the longest survivng performer now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 I think there's only Cliff Richard and Bob Dylan left vying for the longest survivng performer now. Asprilla's Foreskin?? btw, thanks for the gen on the albums you've mentioned. I'll try and get a copy next time home to check out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Rumour has it snakehips taught James Brown everything he knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 4183 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 James Brown live at the Apollo 1962 volume 2 is genuinely the greatest live album and very possibly the best album ever made Anybody who claims any interest in music should own a copy RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radgina 1 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 James Brown live at the Apollo 1962 volume 2 is genuinely the greatest live album and very possibly the best album ever made Anybody who claims any interest in music should own a copy RIP all of the above ...give me ablue peter badge....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 One of the best acts I've ever seen live. Put on a show. RIP. Glastonbury 2004? I remember you went one year. He was fantastic that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I think there's only Cliff Richard and Bob Dylan left vying for the longest survivng performer now. Asprilla's Foreskin?? btw, thanks for the gen on the albums you've mentioned. I'll try and get a copy next time home to check out Sir cliff predates Bawb by several years - and he had the better songs 'n aall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 http://www.variety.com/article/VR111795632...yid=13&cs=1 Spike Lee has signed on to direct a feature on the life of James Brown for Paramount and Imagine Entertainment. Brian Grazer is producing, and the pic could be in production by late next year, though 2008 is more likely. Lee will rewrite a draft recently turned in by Jezz and John Henry Butterworth. Script has been through several drafts since Steve Baigelman wrote the original. Brown was an active part of the development of the biopic project. The singer met with Baigelman, and gave the Butterworth brothers access to his camp. Brown's longtime sideman Bobby Byrd also was interviewed for two days by the Butterworth duo. The rights package includes Brown's life rights, and also access to all his music rights. "Like everybody, I was surprised and saddened that James Brown died," Grazer said Tuesday. "Having known him well, and after spending lots of time with him and researching his life, it's somehow not surprising that he died on Christmas Day. He was the ultimate showman, all the way to the end." Lee has two other projects with Grazer. He will next direct a John Ridley-scripted film on the L.A. riots for Universal and Imagine. He will either follow with the Brown film or an "Inside Man" sequel, which Russell Gewirtz is scripting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 A quote regarding Brown's body laying in state: Known for his frequent costume changes, Brown was in his third wardrobe change in three days - a black jacket and gloves, with a ruby red shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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