James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was a vocalist and musician from the United States. He is known as “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business,” “Godfather of Soul,” “Mr. Dynamite,” and “Soul Brother No. 1” in addition to being the fundamental founder of funk music and a major character of twentieth-century music.
During his more than 50-year career, he influenced the creation of various music genres. Brown was one of the original ten honorees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on January 23, 1986, in New York.
Was James Brown a drug addict?
James Brown had a stringent drug- and alcohol-free policy for any member of his entourage, including band members, throughout most of his career, and would fire anybody who defied orders, particularly those who used or abused narcotics.
Although early Famous Flames members were sacked for drinking, Brown served a highball of Delaware Punch and moonshine in his St. Albans, Queens, home in the mid-1960s. Catfish and Bootsy Collins, initial members of Brown’s 1970s band, the J.B.’s, purposefully took LSD during a performance in 1971, prompting Brown to fire them after the show since he had suspected them of being on drugs all along.
Aide Bob Patton claims that in the mid-1970s, he accidently smoked a PCP-laced cannabis joint with Brown and “hallucinated for hours,” even though Brown “talked about it as if it was only marijuana he was smoking.” By the mid-1980s, it was commonly assumed that Brown was using narcotics, with Vicki Anderson telling journalist Barney Hoskyns that Brown’s frequent usage of PCP (also known colloquially as “angel dust”) “began before 1982.”
Brown and Adrienne Rodriguez began taking PCP together after they met and later married in 1984. Because of his drug use, he frequently had violent outbursts, and he was arrested multiple times for domestic abuse against Rodriguez while high on the narcotic.
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