No really, he be dead folks. The Godfather of Soul has officially left the building. If you don't believe me you can read about it here. James was quoted as saying, "I'm going away tonight" sometime before he passed away. Sadly enough, the man was only 73. I remember when I used to think that was ancient. Now, for some reason it seems like too young an age to have the curtain close.Anyhow, in light of the fact that I'm now obsessed with finding out everyone's criminal past, I thought I'd share this:
Brown's personal life was marked by several brushes with the law. At the age of 16, he was arrested for theft and served 3 years in prison. Adrienne Rodriegues, his third wife, had him arrested four times on charges of assault between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Brown also served 2 years of a 6 year jail sentence after he led police on a car chase across the Georgia/South Carolina border in 1988. He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and assaulting a police officer, along with threatening pedestrians with a firearm, abuse of PCP, and other driving offenses.
Awesome. Just effing brilliant. I'd like to see some other celeb try get away with crap like that. Can you imagine Brit-Brit or Paris assaulting a cop, pistol whipping innocent bystanders and then driving 150 down the 405 all the while high on coke?!?! They would be hauled off to jail for 5+ faster than you can say "unfit mother" or "filthy whore".
Here are some other random factoids I happened to dig up on Wikipedia about the late Mr. Brown:
- Brown had his natural eyebrows replaced with tattooed ones in 1991.
- Brown holds the record for the artist who has charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
- A mistaken news broadcast reported Brown as dead in 1992. A sample of that broadcast became the basis of a techno hit called "James Brown Is Dead".
*In lighter news, I thoroughly cleaned up during the unwrapping-of-the-presents portion of today's events. Let's just say that the theme this year was "Diamonds and Pearls" baby. You know... like that old Prince song. Laaaaaaame, I know. But anyhow, I'll update tomorrow with some pics of my new stuff if I can figure out how to work this new camera dealie.
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*Yes, I'm aware it's tacky to gloat about presents in a death post. Sue me.
1 comment:
still gt wes brown leh
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