James Brown take control...
Toward the end of the show, a young fan jumped onto the stage. A police officer pushed him off. More fans jumped on stage, and more police rushed from the wings. It was a dangerous moment...
James Brown took control. He held the police back. “Move on back. I’ll be all right. I’ll be fine,” he said.
The band went stone silent. More fans leaped onstage, mobbing the singer. “Wait a minute, wait a minute,” Brown repeated. “You make me look very bad, ‘cause I asked the po-lice to step back and you wouldn’t go down. Now that’s wrong, that’s wrong. You’re not being fair to yourself and me and all your race.”
Back in the spotlight, James Brown said, “Now are we together, or are we ain’t?” He told the drummer, “Hit that thing, man,” and picked up where he left off with ‘Can’t stand it, can’t stand your love.’
The show was then rebroadcast, over and over, and thousands of angry young people stayed home.
James Brown take control...
There is a link, in your article, to the entire broadcast (YT), but it has been removed.
I found this version, tho..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfSayXyqw64
>>We need a James Brown nowadays.
James Brown recorded the patriotic single “America is My Home” in 1967 and released it in the summer of 1968–a time when many in America were protesting the country’s involvement in the Vietnam War and still feeling the effects from the April assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In his 1986 autobiography The Godfather of Soul, Brown talked about the response to the spoken word track:
“People were on my case about ‘America Is My Home,’ calling me an Uncle Tom, saying the song was a sellout, things like that. Some of the more militant organizations sent representatives backstage after shows to talk about it. ‘How can you do a song like that after what happened to Dr. King?,’ they’d say. I talked to them and tried to explain that when I said ‘America is my home,’ I didn’t mean the government was my home, I meant the land and the people. They didn’t want to hear that.”
To quote James Brown:
“HAH! Oooohweee! Knock out.....THIS!”
Living in America.
God bless him.
Incredible.
I remember this.
Interesting that the surnames of the mayor was White, and the singer was Brown. LOL. A bit of historical irony.
I watched him that night. While I was never a fan of his music, he will have my respect till the day I die. We definitely need another James Brown!