When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Johnson was the one who convinced Brown to go to riot-torn inner cities in the wake of the King assassination Brown was a staunch Republican. Brown refused to listen and thus the album Live at the Apollo was released. On both recordings the tonal structure is bare bones.

James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933 – December 25 2006) was an American singer songwriter musician and recording artist. He is ranked seventh on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time. "
Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 from heart failure after becoming very ill two days earlier and being hospitalized for hours.