James Brown: 1933 - 2006
James Brown. The hardest working man in show biz. Together with Five Percent Islam and P-Funk, his gravity shaped hip hop in its earliest form and thus set it on its course. I loved Brown's work... I even paid cash money for the rights to print just a few lines of his classic song "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" in my first novel, The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad: "This is a man's world, this is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl "You see, man made the cars to take us over the road Man made the trains to carry heavy loads Man made electric light to take us out of the dark Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark "This is a man's, a man's, a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl "Man thinks about a little baby girls and a baby boys Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys And after man has made...