Kudos to Jill 1228 for being so prompt with this tribute to James Brown. If you want to learn more about him in a more musical direction, go to this link and it is phenomenal about all soul artists:
http://www.soultracks.com/james_brown.htm
and the saddest thing is that his wife is being locked out of their house by his lawyer. Why do the good ones die and then there is always the extra theatrics that have to occur at the same time?? Isn't she grieving enough?