Name: Live At The Apollo 1962
Brand: James Brown

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

B000171502

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2008-03-24

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Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

602498613702

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

James Brown

Genre US

Funk / Soul

Label US

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James Brown was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and dancer, who was one of the most important and influential entertainers in 20th-century&nbsp;popular music&nbsp;and whose remarkable achievements earned him the honorific nickname “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business.”

Brown began his career as a&nbsp;gospel&nbsp;singer and rose to prominence in the mid-1950s, building&nbsp;a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. His success peaked in the 1960s with hit singles such as "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World".

During the late 1960s, Brown moved to a new approach to music-making, emphasising stripped-down interlocking rhythms that influenced the development of funk music. By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound with records such as "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" and "The Payback". He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud". Brown continued to perform and record until his death in 2006.

Many albums are hyped as legendary; few deserve the accolade. Live At The Apollo 1962 is one of those rare albums that lives up to the hype.

Released despite label misgivings, Live at the Apollo cemented <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/james-brown">James Brown's</a> reputation as the unchallenged master of soul music. Deejays played the entire album at one stretch - this in an era when radio programmers rejected four-minute singles because they were too long - and the record reached number two on the billboard pop chart, a previously unheard-of achievement for a gritty r&amp;b album. This is a document of one of America's greatest performers at the peak of his artistic powers. <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/james-brown">Brown's</a>singing is orgasmic - just listen to the opening squeal on I Go Crazy' - and the intensity never lets up. brown drives his crack band through breakneck versions of early hits before dragging them through the 11-minute bump-and-grind of Lost someone, the high point of a show that is nothing but high points. Decades later, this is still one of the greatest live albums of all-time. added are 4 mono single mixes, issued after the lps release, plus a nice booklet packed with new informtion, annotations, archival images and photos.

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/live-at-the-apollo-1962-a2895fbf-eba8-4649-982e-97c893bb573f">LP available here.</a>