James Brown: The Soul Of Mr. Brown
Dave Godin, Record Mirror, 26 March 1966
JAMES BROWN has at last been to Britain. His all too brief stay had just about the maximum impact that it could have had. It proved a lot of people wrong, and it proved a lot of people right; he received both good and bad publicity, and both enthusiastic and luke-warm criticism.
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