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Beat The Devil: James Brown's Demons

James Maycock, Observer Music Monthly, February 2004

DAMN! LIFE WAS sweet and dandy for the Godfather of Soul in the last few years. But James Brown's slippin' and slidin' once again – and he ain't dancing. Startling news from Aiken County, South Carolina, at the end of January suggested that Brown's big bad nemesis of the '80's and '90's might be back on the tracks.

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