James Brown kicked his final kick last night....

posted by jeremy on December 26, 2006

Bartending on x-mas eve & the breaking news on CNN stops everyone in the joint. Fast foward roughly two minutes: Shots are poured, toast made to that wild man who scrapped out something like 50 albums over the blaze of his career. I immediately loaded up the dozens of songs we have of his in the Rbar music machine & like he always said I should, I played it loud....

The following are interesting snips from the New York Daily News concerning that shag-ass mofo.....

Soul singer James Brown died of congestive heart failure early Christmas morning, his manager said, a day after checking into an Atlanta hospital. He was 73.

The legend uttered his last words Sunday night, telling a friend, "I'm going away tonight."

Abandoned by his parents and raised by relatives, Brown grew up dancing for spare change and scavenging for lumps of coal in segregated Augusta, Ga.

He was sent off to reform school at 15 for breaking into cars there, earning the nickname "Music Box" during three years behind bars.

But from his very first hit - 1956's "Please, Please, Please," recorded when he was 22 - Brown announced himself as a searing, singular talent.

He famously served a 15-month prison term he earned with a PCP-fueled two-state rampage in 1988, when he threatened dozens of people with a shotgun before leading 14 squad cars on a chase that ended only after cops shot out his tires.

He is survived by his fourth wife, backup singer Tomi Rae Hynie, and at least four children.

Article by ADAM LISBERG