James Brown: Get Up, I Feel Like Being A Rap Machine
Nick Kent, NME, 15 September 1979
JAMES BROWN is late for our appointment. But then it would almost be heresy on his part were he not a regal 45 minutes behind schedule. For James Brown to be granting audiences with the rock press is rare enough as it is.
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