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Article: Spotlight on James brown y'all
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1991
- Author:
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Close your eyes during the first track of "Star Time," the 4-CD
James Brown retrospective (PolyGram) due in stores Tuesday, and this
is what you'll see:
Halfway through his "Please Please Please" -- a relentless string
of impassioned squeals designed to woo a woman who'd packed her bags
-- the air has turned furious and James Brown is a sight. Stray
strands of hair launch like fireworks from what had been a
meticulously processed 'do. The singer slinks, vibrates, writhes and
pulsates across a stage already hectic with the flash of brass
instruments and the unwieldly choreography of the Famous Flames. He
aims to show folks the way a real man, a man seething with soul, is
supposed to beg. No ...
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... ... Do you have a favorite James Brown song? Mayor YOUNG: I like ... think we really hear a pure James Brown voice in that. It's just ... show business. He's Mr. Please, Please. He's the amazing Mr. James Brown, and he's got one of ...
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