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James Brown: The early years
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Even in death, James Brown remained a master showman.
Rather than go out quietly following his Christmas Day death of heart failure at age 73 in Atlanta, he embarked on a farewell tour three days later. Housed in a gold casket and decked out in a blue suit, white gloves, and silver shoes, Mr. Dynamite's body rolled through the streets of Harlem in a carriage pulled by two white horses en route to the Apollo Theatre (one of his perpetual strongholds), while a huge procession of fans trailed along behind, some shouting his empowering anthem "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud."
His gold ...
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