Jazzie B on James Brown

Great Lives

BBC

History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B tells Matthew Parris why he nominates James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul”, for this series. Jazzie B, who was awarded a CBE for services to black British music, spent time latterly with James Brown and he became “like a big brother.” He shares personal reflections on Mr Brown’s life and legacy, with help from the music journalist Charles Shaar Murray. Producer: Maggie Ayre First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2014.

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0:00.0	Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?
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0:10.0	I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti. I saw a footprint and that really gave me gusmas.
0:16.4	Or people who knew me. Emme, I remember every secret, every lie. I'm the only one who knows the truth.
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0:29.0	Great Lives is a download from Radio 4.
0:32.0	We hope you enjoy what you're about to hear. Great Lives is a download from Radio Fall.
0:32.8	We hope you enjoy what you're about to hear.
0:35.4	Fellows, I'm ready to get up and do my thing.
0:38.7	I want to get into it, man, you know.
0:41.0	Like a sex machine, man, moving, doing it, you know like a like a sex machine man moving doing it you know can I count it all
0:45.8	one two three four
0:49.8	get up get up get up get on the get up get on up stay on the scene get on
0:55.8	up like a sex machine get on up get up get up get up get on the. Stay on the scene.
1:05.0	Like a sex machine.
1:07.0	It's one of the best known most widely sampled tunes for the last 40 years.
1:12.0	The 1970s hit Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine by
1:16.2	Sol singer James Brown. And it's his life that's been chosen by my guest this
1:21.0	week Trevor Beresford Romeo, better known as Jazzie B, OBE, DJ, a London legend, he asks me to mention
1:29.7	music producer, entrepreneur, and frontman of the Music Collective Soul to Soul.
1:35.4	They are credited with putting Black British music on the map in the 1980s, with their slogan,
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