Stay On Up: Was James Brown mummified after death?
Families, eh?
James Brown
Vintage driver’s licenses once issued to Alfred Hitchcock, Johnny Cash, James Brown & more!
Johnny Cash’s California driver’s license issued in 1964. Back in 2013 my Dangerous Minds colleague Tara McGinley put together a post containing images of passports…
‘I feel good!’: Jordan Peele reenacts James Brown’s crazy drug-fueled CNN interview word for word
Here’s a priceless bit of business from the irreplaceable Jordan Peele. In May of 1988 James Brown was arrested in Aiken County, South Carolina, on…
Meet ‘Soul Sister #1’: Marvellous Marva Whitney, the sexy, funky muse of James Brown
Although she’s somewhat of an obscure figure today, beautiful Marva Whitney was known as “Soul Sister #1” during her stint in the James Brown Revue…
Post-punk funk: Debbie Harry and James White & The Blacks cover Chic and James Brown, 1980
Okay, so it’s Monday… That’s bad enough already, but it’s also a Monday in January and much of the eastern part of the US of…
Alice Cooper, Jimi, James Brown, Marc Bolan, Frank Zappa (and many more) do Santa
Alice Cooper playing ping-pong with Santa ‘Tis the Season folks and as I’m getting ready to roll off Dangerous Minds for a week, I wanted…
James Brown has a ‘Ski Party’ with Frankie and Annette
Two years into Frankie and Annette’s Beach Party series, emboldened by the five installments behind them, American International Pictures tried a variation on the movies’…
James Brown stars in the greatest miso soup commercial of all time, 1992
James Brown famously never did anything in half-measures, and certainly this marvelous Japanese commercial for a miso soup product from Cup Noodles constitutes no exception…
‘Big Mac! Tastes so good!’: James Brown struts his stuff in this silly 1984 McDonald’s commercial
On Dan Harmon’s weekly podcast Harmontown earlier this week, Dan and his friend and guest actor DeMorge Brown were discussing the phenomenon of commercials targeted…