Tonight is the HBO premiere of Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown. Produced by Mick Jagger and directed by Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, I can't wait to see how they chart Brown's influence on music.
Sadly, I never saw James Brown in concert before his death in 2006. My father has told me stories of seeing him in the 1960s at the Howard Theater in Washington D.C, a theater then nearly as famous for its black performers as New York's Apollo. I hope they show clips from some of the Washington performances - they have lived in my imagination as absolutely incredible.
The Godfather of Soul, revealed.
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