Ian Brown - 'Fool's Gold' Was Inspired By James Brown

The new issue of NME is dedicated to lost musical legends. James Brown was a sheer force of nature. I remember seeing some old colour film of him dancing to ‘It’s A Man’s World’ in a TV studio when I was about 12 or 13. It was before punk and in the footage, he’s dancing on one leg and doing his knee slides wearing his black suit and pointy shoes. It was out of this world. He must have looked liked he came from another planet when people first saw that. I used to go to a lot of No...

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